Pipilotti Rist at the MCA: Serious fantasist

Gail Priest

The retrospective of Swiss media artist Pipilotti Rist at the MCA immerses Gail Priest in magical worlds that merge nature and the everyday where grace and beauty find a home, but what more is there to the Rist vision?

Angela Goh, Scum Ballet: Female magic

Keith Gallasch

Angela Goh’s Scum Ballet is a haunting, ritualistic assemblage of strange tasks and images realised with conviction by five performers who build a world of female power and magic, writes Keith Gallasch.

Editorial 29 November 2017

This week we report on two important festivals that feature spheres of often underrated artistic activity, one drawing together artists from across the country, the other making global connections.

Report: Hobiennale Arts Festival

Lucy Hawthorne

Hobiennale, a significant gathering of ARIs from across Australia and New Zealand, impresses Lucy Hawthorne with its sharing of works, performances, ideas and its participants’ adaptability to sites in and around Hobart.

realtime tv: Hobiennale Arts Festival 2017

Lucy Parakhina provides a visual overview of the Hobiennale Arts Festival, featuring interviews with festival directors Grace Herbert and Liam James, and participants from Brisbane, Sydney and Alice Springs.

Envisioning the subjective maternal body

Jasmine Salomon

Realising Mother, an exhibition featuring 16 female photographers, “puts the real and messy, imperfect and beautiful, often unexpected maternal body back front and centre,” writes Jasmine Salomon.

Andrée Greenwell’s Cinéaste: reflections & refractions

Keith Gallasch

Cinéaste Vol. 1 is a fascinating assemblage that allows composer Greenwell to lovingly reflect on the idiom of film scoring and to inventively refract her own compositions, yielding aural gems: riffs, ostinatos, hooks and soundscapes, the stuff of movies actual and imagined.

Sky Blue Mythic: Angela Goh’s fantastical myth-making

Keith Gallasch

More essay than review, Keith Gallasch’s response to Angela Goh’s Sky Blue Mythic explores the relationship between experiencing a powerfully disconcerting work, reviewing it and engaging with the artist’s account of it.

Narcifixion: Watching the narcissists

Keith Gallasch

Anton’s vigorously propulsive, grimly funny dance work, Narcifixion, about screen-bred narcissism provokes Keith Gallasch, watching a finely streamed performance, to appreciate the logic of its structure and respond to its account of a complex condition.

Rakini Devi’s nightwork: the performer as visual artist

Keith Gallasch

The exhibition Inhabiting Erasures powerfully attests to a passion to arrest the wrongs done to women, conjures a magical otherworld of female strength and beauty and exquisitely reveals painting to be the foundation of Devi’s practice.

Excellent everyday Kathak: Raghav Handa’s TWO

Keith Gallasch

With amusing conversation and exquisite partnering dancer Raghav Handa and tabla player Maharshi Raval reveal much about collaboration, Kathak dance and the testing of boundaries.

Album review: Offspring Bites 3: En Masse

Keith Gallasch

From Ensemble Offspring potent works by Alex Pozniak (dramatically assaying weight in music), Holly Harrison (a witty take on instrumental and other distortions) and Thomas Meadowcroft (a gently vibrating meditation that opens out to a pulsing expansive vision).

Editorial Thursday 27 August 2020

Keith Gallasch & Virginia Baxter

The highly successful 2019 exhibition In Response: Dialogues with RealTime, which celebrated the interplay between RealTime and the artists Martin del Amo, Vicki Van Hout and Branch Nebula, is now exhibited online. We also interview instigator and co-curator Dr Erin Brannigan about her motivation for mounting this innovative exhibition. In another bold archival venture, Madeleine Hodge and Sarah Rodigari have created Timely Readings, a visual mapping of live art in Australia.