Editorial 2 August 2017

We kickstart our annual Arts Education and Training feature, running August-September, with profiles of two inspiring Adelaide-based artists: musician and composer Dan Thorpe (above) and choreographer and Artistic Director of the Australian Dance Theatre, Garry Stewart.

Ever-evolving self: Garry Stewart, artist as researcher

Keith Gallasch

As the Australian Dance Theatre commences touring Be Your Self, Garry Stewart reflects on neurological mapping and emotional states as choreographic in his MFA research at UNSW Art & Design.

Redefining the Retrospective: Pioneering Women

Cameron Williams

A program of Australian women’s feature filmmaking from the 1980s and 90s at Melbourne International Film Festival brings “should-be-classics” back to the screen, writes Cameron Williams

Gabrielle Nankivell: convergent states

Ben Brooker

Characters and narrative unusually figure in a contemporary dance work, Split Second Heroes, in which Gabrielle Nankivell takes on old binaries using 80s pre-digital technology and sci-fi speculation.

More OzAsia: from Australia

Keith Gallasch

Idiosyncratic collaborations — In Between Two, Hot Brown Honey, Fairweather and Macau Days — look set to reveal the increasingly complex weave that is Australian culture.

Editorial 26 July 2017

Adelaide’s OzAsia Festival proves more than ever to be vitally enticing with a program featuring great artists and works unfamiliar to Australian audiences.

Joseph Mitchell, interview, OzAsia: Epically Personal

Keith Gallasch

Artistic Director Joseph Mitchell describes a program that frames the personal within mythology, history and gender, with artists setting the agenda for 21st century performance.

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.