The Silent Eye: Astral vision

Luke Goodsell

Luke Goodsell is transported by a deeply atypical documentary about music (Cecil Taylor) and dance (Min Tanaka) by Australian filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson, The Silent Eye, showing this week at the Antenna Documentary Film Festival.

Ensemble Offspring: Down the rabbit hole

Keith Gallasch

Ensemble Offspring’s Who Dreamed It?, a concert of five fascinating, formula-bending works by female composers, delighted Keith Gallasch with their evocations of wacky dreams and moody reveries.

Editorial 27 September 2017

In recent weeks we’ve looked at the role of the university in supporting the making of new artworks as research at postgraduate level and today review one of the outcomes, Rakini Devi’s Urban Kali. This week we turn to recent graduates, interviewing Jess Wallace and Phoebe Sullivan about the WAAPA Performance Making course that took them straight to the Perth professional stage with a self-devised work.

Sounding the Future: Towards new sound ecologies

Emily Stewart

Emily Stewart is immersed in a tech-driven exhibition curated by Gail Priest, in which sound artworks are “smeared in time” and thrown toward their possible sonic futures.

Laika: Into space by radio

Jonathan W Marshall

Second Chance Theatre’s Laika, staged as a radio play about early Russian space travel, is “an immensely enjoyable example of how to modestly evoke sublime spaces,” writes Jonathan W Marshall.

Interview, Frances Barbe: The university as performance incubator

Keith Gallasch

Frances Barbe, Course Coordinator for the Bachelor of Performing Arts degree at WAAPA, tells Keith Gallasch about the Performance Making course, its evolutionary structure and transformative 10-day training in Singapore.

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.