Muriel’s Wedding, The Musical: Excess, good and bad

Keith Gallasch

Keith Gallasch revels in Muriel’s Wedding, The Musical, admiring both its fabulous inventiveness and fidelity to the spirit of the film, troubled only by last act excesses that undo the original’s wisdom.

Editorial 22 November 2017

In this week’s RealTime, a multitude of lay and professional performers execute the deeply absorbing A Wave and Waves [image above] in Perth’s Totally Huge New Music Festival, a key event for Australian afficionados of adventurous music-making.

Wired Open Day Festival’s agri-cultural magic

Neill Overton

Viewing boxes scattered across a paddock conjure a heritage-listed shearing shed and Kenyan elephants loom sonically beneath a starry sky in this year’s Wired Open Day Festival in regional NSW, writes Neill Overton.

Djurra: Sharing culture; an interview with Kirk Page

Keith Gallasch

Director Kirk Page tells Keith Gallasch about Djurra, a multimedia performance merging the creation story of the Bundjalung nation of north-eastern New South Wales with contemporary reality, a work at once celebratory and emotionally fraught.

Jackson Davis: The art of videographic performance

Keith Gallasch

Jackson Davis, UOW graduate and a core member of the re:group performance collective reflects on education, the wonders of the internet, influences and works about space travel and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

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.