OzAsia music: Bold syntheses

Chris Reid

GayBird’s stunning combination of electronic music and dazzling visuals, an engaging multimedia portrait of a great painter, Ian Fairweather and a revival, with guzheng, of a classic 1960s rock album, thrill Chris Reid.

Editorial 11 October 2017

We return from Adelaide, bearing delights and insights granted us by the artists whose work we experienced in just one of the three weeks of OzAsia Festival.

OzAsia: W!ld Rice Theatre, Hotel: Close to home

Keith Gallasch

W!ld Rice Theatre excels on all fronts in a frank five-hour account of race, class, language and gender across 100 years of Singaporean history via expertly performed farce, situation comedy and high drama.

OzAsia Festival: Worlds reconfigured

Ben Brooker

Ben Brooker applauds Macho Dancer, Until the Lions and Recalling Mother, performances that in very different ways unsettle conventional gender and personal relationship expectations with verve and passion.

Liveworks 2017: Beautiful Disturbance; interview, Jeff Khan

Keith Gallasch

In an interview with Keith Gallasch, Jeff Khan, Performance Space Artistic Director, guides us through the festival program’s fantasias and political provocations, works of grand scale and intimate one-on-ones.

My dinner with birdfoxmonster

Katerina Sakkas

In an Erth/Studio A collaboration, three artist-performers “created an idiosyncratic mythology of self that imbued every last detail of the production. A wonderfully transportive experience,” writes Katerina Sakkas.

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.