Interview: Steve Matthews, going seriously solo

Keith Gallasch & Virginia Baxter

Towards his Doctorate of Arts at the University of Sydney, Steve Matthews has researched the form and made a solo autobiographical performance. He tells RealTime about the personal and artistic challenges and rewards.

Unseen energies manifest as art

Stephen Jones

First seen at Sydney’s MCA, Energies: Haines & Hinterding is now at Perth’s PICA. Read Stephen Jones’ richly informative 2015 response to this subtly mind-bending show.

Laura Hindmarsh: Runtime (2017)

Critical Video

Though our footsteps (and our lives) are digitally tracked to the millimetre, something feels “out of step, out of time,” writes Elyssia Bugg of Laura Hindmarsh’s GPS-misguided Runtime. Watch now, with headphones on.

Editorial 6 September 2017

This week, fascinating works for watching and listening, with new Critical Video and Critical Audio features.

Told through body and land: God’s Own Country

Joanna Di Mattia

God’s Own Country and a suite of other queer-focused films at MIFF ask us “to take a step further — to acknowledge and respect what is different,” writes Joanna Di Mattia.

Gabriella Hirst: Force Majeure

Critical Video

Briony Kidd sees Gabriella Hirst’s video work Force Majeure as a satire of the artistic life, speaking to the gap between expectation and outcome, and the artist reflects on her art education and career overseas.

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.