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In Response… now exhibited online

Keith Gallasch, Virginia Baxter

2019’s In Response: Dialogues with RealTime is now online, featuring performances, interviews and documentation from the exhibition in a superbly produced digital record that enriches the archives of artists Martin del Amo, Branch Nebula, Vicki Van Hout and RealTime.

27 August 2020

Hodge and Rodigari map Australian live art

Keith Gallasch, Virginia Baxter

With a large poster, commissioned by London’s LADA, Madeleine Hodge, Sarah Rodigari and artist Ella Sutherland have created a map of Australian live art that is at once impressionistically evocative and incredibly precise, referencing 666 RealTime reviews.

27 August 2020

Erin Brannigan & the living archive

Keith Gallasch

In this interview, Erin Brannigan looks back to her young dancer and street paper reviewer self on a path to developing a passion for dance history and for doing something special for the archiving of performance with In Response: Dialogues with RealTime.

27 August 2020

A guide to the RealTime Archive

Keith Gallasch, Virginia Baxter

Keith and Virginia guide you to the archive within the RealTime website, in UNSW Library’s Digital Collections and the National Library of Australia’s TROVE, revealing a huge online record, digitised print editions and numerous special features.

27 August 2020

Thinking at the speed of light: the art of Sam James

Keith Gallasch

With video camera and a Mini Maglite torch as wand, Blue Mountains-based artist Sam James magically engages with thought, time, objects and space. In this interview James reflects on the making of his animations and we access a powerful new work, Panic Embrace.

27 August 2020

Editorial Friday 10 December 2019

The Big Anxiety. It’s a bold, even risky title for a festival that “brings together artists, scientists and communities to question and re-imagine the state of mental health in the 21st century”.

6 December 2019

The Big Anxiety 1: listen_UP, listen deep

Keith Gallasch

An installation in The Big Anxiety’s Empathy Clinic advocates and induces deep listening with which to understand the anger and underlying grieving born of serial trauma suffered by generations of Australia’s Indigenous peoples.

6 December 2019

Branch Nebula demo’s evolution

Keith Gallasch

In DEMO, six young performers conjure a world of emergence, conflict, cooperation, cataclysm and resurgence with little more than agile bodies, skateboards, a BMX bike and trust in their collective strength.

6 December 2019

The Big Anxiety 2: Breakout My Pelvic Sorcery

Keith Gallasch

Eugenie Lee’s multidisciplinary, collaborative VR creation for The Empathy Clinic asks health professionals to brave discombobulating discomfort in order to develop empathy for the sufferers of pelvic pain.

6 December 2019

Ensemble Offspring’s not so lonely hemispheres

Keith Gallasch

With compelling works expertly realised by Ensemble Offspring soloists, Australian composers Elizabeth Younan, Tristan Coehlo and Damien Ricketson constellate around those of Franco Donatoni and Luciano Berio.

6 December 2019

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.

5 October 2021

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.

26 July 2021

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.

17 June 2021

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.

2 June 2021

The RealTime Archive: Contributors: Jodie McNeilly

For our archive we’re completing and updating our contributor entries. Dancer, research academic and writer Jodie McNeilly likes that writing “lets [her] turn towards the world with acute attention.” Read Jodie’s profile here.

12 March 2021

The RealTime Archive: Contributors: Erin Brannigan

For our archive we’re completing and updating our contributor entries. Writer and teacher Erin Brannigan’s passionate “motivation in writing about dance and choreography in its many forms is to help it persist into the future.”

12 March 2021

The RealTime Archive: Contributors: Cleo Mees

For our archive we’re completing and updating our contributor entries. Writer, teacher and video-maker Cleo Mees reflects on music and dance, Bodyweather and writing “that makes surprising associations and confessions…”

12 March 2021

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.

25 February 2021

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).

25 February 2021

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.

27 August 2020