The Derwent: Re-envisioning a river

Andrew Harper

A conglomerate of video art, IT creativity and archival materials, Martin Walch and David Stephenson’s The Derwent fascinates Andrew Harper with the immersive totality of its vision.

Be Your Self and Trapper: Bodies of our time

John Bailey

John Bailey sees ADT’s “hugely physical” Be Your Self as “both intensely material and quietly abstracted,” while in Arena Theatre’s “visually lavish” Trapper, “the movement is slow and measured, conceptually proceeding with just as much deliberation.”

Mountain in concert

Steve Dow

Steve Dow embraces the screen-stage synthesis of Jennifer Peedom’s spectacular mountain footage and the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s live score and ponders its potential for diversifying audiences.

Palace of Memories: The forgotten resurrected

Tyson Yunkaporta

An ABC iView documentary about Jonathan Jones’ public artwork Barrangal Dyara faithfully relates the artist’s conciliatory account of cultural losses wrought by the 1882 Garden Palace fire.

A Flickering Truth: Cinematic spirit

Lauren Carroll Harris

With Afghanistan’s future on a precipice, a group of men come together to rescue thousands of hours of film footage in this 2015, New Zealand-made documentary, now on DVD, writes Lauren Carroll Harris.

Editorial 9 August 2017

In our ongoing Arts Education & Training feature, we focus on recent graduates embarking on their careers and reflecting on the university faculties and courses that helped shape them.

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.