Alvin’s Harmonious World of Opposites: Interior revelations

Keva York

Sydney independent writer-director Platon Theodoris’ debut feature film, now on video-on-demand and reviewed by Keva York, transcends the limits of realism for a fantastical, Tardis-like exploration of its reclusive protagonist’s inner world.

Junction Arts Festival: Illuminating a town with art

Lauren Carroll Harris

With a super-local approach to programming, Launceston’s Junction Arts Festival delivers grassroots works frequently absent in mainland fringe festivals, writes Lauren Carroll Harris.

Urban Kali: Face to face with Kali

Keith Gallasch

An awed Keith Gallasch comes to terms with a fierce goddess in Rakini Devi’s richly impressionistic Urban Kali, a collage of dance, sculpture, film and sound rooted in the artist’s Doctor of Creative Arts research.

Samaya Wives: One-minute dance award winner

Keith Gallasch

The Samaya Wives’ wittily inventive The Knowledge Between Us won Outstanding Achievement in Dance on Film or New Media in the 2017 Australian Dance Awards this week. We speak with one of the makers, Pippa Samaya.

Editorial 20 September 2017

In a world steeped in cynicism and buffeted by escalating crises, it’s difficult to fantasise peaceful and socially equitable futures. Too Close to the Sun’s The Bluebird Mechanicals [image above] conjures an exquisitely beautiful world, a museum-ish miniature of our own, doomed by hubris to imminent destruction, but blessed with the fertile imaginations of the production’s numerous makers.

Ensemble Offspring: Lisa Illean & the porous voice

Keith Gallasch

Ensemble Offspring’s Who Dreamed It? features five female composers. One of them, Lisa Illean, tells Keith Gallasch about the subtle forces — poetry, twilight, voices and “scraps of heard things” — that inform her new work, Cantor.

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.