Soft Centre: Festive hardcore

Keith Gallasch

Soft Centre, a new, big, bold 12-hour festival of electronic music has added depth and scale with immersive light works and collaborations between musicians and visual and performance artists at Casula Powerhouse, Alice Joel tells RealTime.

OzAsia: Tangling with utopia

Chris Reid

Chris Reid takes in After Utopia — a timely exhibition from Singapore soon to be seen in Adelaide — which eloquently assays the fantasies and realities that shape our capacity to project ideal societies.

Five luminous new Australian filmmakers

Lauren Carroll Harris

There’s no single route for young people into filmmaking in this country or anywhere. Lauren Carroll Harris finds five artists taking distinctly zigzagging, peripatetic educational and creative pathways into cinema.

The Loop

This week, smart creative thinkers address political storytelling, the figure of the migrant in Australian cinema and the new Slow Art theory.

Editorial 13 September 2017

Two highly experienced performers, Rakini Devi, studying at the University of Wollongong, and Steve Matthews at the University of Sydney, are well on their way to completing doctor of creative arts degrees. They tell us what motivated them to deepen their practices with intensive research, reflection on their art and the making of new works.

Namatjira Project: Righting a wrong

Dan Edwards

Dan Edwards thinks Sera Davies’ multilayered, culturally alert documentary about Big hART’s collaboration with the family of Albert Namatjira should inspire action to return the artist’s copyright to them.

Visualising sound, making Home

Chris Reid

Hong Kong artist GayBird tells Chris Reid about his two works for the OzAsia Festival: a performance with Zephyr Quartet that progresses from an electronic future to an acoustic past, and Home, a large-scale public installation populated with magical tiny houses.

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.