The Deep Archive: Being Gena Rowlands

Lesley Stern

In the wake of Nat Randall and Anna Breckon’s success with The Second Woman, it’s time to consider the performance that inspired it, celebrated in a superb article from 1994 about performance and identification by Lesley Stern.

Editorial 1 November 2017

Performance Space’s Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art proved once again that it can challenge and exhilarate, generate intense debate, and party. This week we look at Eisa Jocson’s Corponomy, LabAnino’s This Here. Land (image above), Tetsuya Umeda’s Ringo, Mark Harvey’s Helping Hand, Lz Dunn’s AEON and Jen Jamieson’s Let’s Make Love.

Liveworks: Can art make oxytocin?

Teik-Kim Pok

Jen Jamieson’s Let’s Make Love, a one-on-one blend of interactive biochemistry lecture, guided meditation and mini-date designed to raise oxytocin levels, engages and unsettles Teik-Kim Pok.

Liveworks: Tetsuya Umeda, Eisa Jocson: Process & experiment

Keith Gallasch

Eisa Jocson’s innovative lecture-performance, Corpomony, surveys her body of work and its political motivation, while Tetsuya Umeda’s audio-visual abstraction yields a strange beauty, writes Keith Gallasch.

Liveworks: Mark Harvey: Risky chat

Teik-Kim Pok

In Helping Hand, Mark Harvey liberates conversation from convention by putting himself in Teik-Kim Pok’s hands — guiding the blindfolded artist, standing on his back and talking politics as Harvey walks backwards.

Experimenta: Make Sense: Disorientation & distance

Elyssia Bugg

In the second of RealTime’s responses to Make Sense, Elyssia Bugg experiences “an immersive sense of disorientation,” though sometimes sensing technology as a creator of distance.

CCME: Lawrence English: Visceral listening

Keith Gallasch

For the Cleveland Contemporary Music Event Lawrence English will share Viento: Blizzards of Antarctica and Beyond, a texturally rich aural buffeting that he says will open up fascinating associations for his audience.

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.