Danny Wild: Around the Block (2014)

Critical Video

In Danny Wild’s intriguingly contemplative video, writes Emily Stewart, “the unities and contradictions of a suburban block are turned into collage, which is turned into diorama, which is turned into a cul de sac.”

Angelique’s mirror-world choices

Ben Brooker

In Angelique, Adelaide ensemble isthisyours? exploits Her Majesty’s Theatre, on and backstage, with absurdist verve to unsettle a sense of self and responsibility in both characters and audience, writes Ben Brooker.

Editorial 25 October 2017

In one of Proximity Festival’s one-on-one performances reviewed this week, artist Cigdem Aydemir (image above) takes a participant on an unexpected studio-shoot spin on a Harley Davidson. It’s that sense of surprise and being taken out of ourselves that we look for in works that labels themselves innovative or experimental.

Proximity Festival 2017: One-on-one adventures

Nerida Dickinson

In Proximity Festival 2017, Nerida Dickinson rides a whirlwind of one-on-one performance experiences including a screenstage ‘spin’ on a Harley Davidson as a passenger with an heroic Muslim rider, her hijab flying.

CCME: ELISION & Kupka’s Piano: Electric guitar takes lead

Keith Gallasch

Oh to be in Cleveland, Brisbane, for CCME, a music event that features concerts by ELISION and Kupka’s Piano, ensembles foregrounding electric guitar in works that are visceral and haunting.

Liveworks’ ghosts of performance past

Keith Gallasch

Prompted by debate over the notion of the “experimental” central to this Performance Space festival, Keith Gallasch addresses hauntings in works by Agatha Gothe-Snape, Christian Thompson and Nat Randall.

Route Dash Niner: Part II: Homemade space travel

Nikki Heywood

Making sci-fi cinema on stage with lo-fi means in Route Dash Niner: Part II, the hugely inventive Re:group Performance Collective conveys with wit the suspense and pathos of space travel, writes Nikki Heywood.

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.