The Book of Revelations: inside dementia

Alison Finn

Black Hole Theatre’s The Book of Revelations evokes mental disintegration, writes Alison Finn “as a series of fantastical appearances, materialising from everyday existence, alternately wondrous and terrifying.”

Vince Gilligan & cable TV, the new arthouse

Jake Wilson speaks with a key cultural innovator in long-form storytelling, Vince Gilligan, about Better Call Saul, moral ambiguity and visual abstraction in television.

Sustaining artist-alumni: Sonya Holowell & Elia Bosshard

Keith Gallasch

UNSW’s School of Arts & Media Alumni Residency Program provides Sonya Holowell and Elia Bosshard space and resources to develop an innovative music performance work to premiere in the Sydney Fringe Festival.

PACT Salon #2: Possible abilities

Lauren Carroll Harris

A Saturday night art party at an experimental performance venue provided a vital if uneven platform for artists with physical and invisible disabilities, writes Lauren Carroll Harris.

The good book: ADT at 50

Keith Gallasch

Keith Gallasch applauds Maggie Tonkin’s Fifty, an invaluable history of the Australian Dance Theatre’s artistic achievements, in part revealed in the recollections of artistic directors and textured with the harsh realities of arts politics.

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.