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We Don’t Need a Map: The sentience of stars

Tyson Yunkaporta and Lauren Carroll Harris

Tyson Yunkaporta and Lauren Carroll Harris talk about Warwick Thornton’s new culture-jamming documentary on the many meanings of the Southern Cross, so often hijacked from Indigenous stories. Showing 23 July on NITV.

18 July 2017

Tamagotchi Reset and Other Doomsdays: Apocalyptic LOLs

Nerida Dickinson

If global disaster is a given, should we just party while the planet burns? Nerida Dickinson watches a world war of words unfold in an independent theatre show.

18 July 2017

Xiu Xiu and Twin Peaks: Derivatively original

Tiarney Miekus

Something new emerges from the woods in art-rock band Xiu Xiu’s live homage to the famous Twin Peaks soundtrack, which for Tiarney Miekus is as melodramatic, earnest and shadowy as ever.

18 July 2017

A Working Model of the World: A meta show of models

Gail Priest

Gail Priest peers into a big exhibition of little things exploring how forms of knowledge manifest in models, from dioramas to architectural miniatures and artistic renderings.

18 July 2017

Plastic China: Recycling’s downside

Dan Edwards

A Chinese documentary about the recycling industry creates a terrifying vision of poverty, materialism and waste, writes Dan Edwards.

18 July 2017

The Irresistible: To the light

Nerida Dickinson

A new Perth theatre production sees a mystical force bind the trajectories of a cast of disparate but interconnected characters, writes Nerida Dickinson.

18 July 2017

Objectillogica: The Wunderkammer remade

Laetitia Wilson

A modern Australian anti-museum critiques the colonial and museological conventions of the cabinet of curiosities, writes Laetitia Wilson.

18 July 2017

Sandy Edwards: Kyoto, Japan

RealTime Traveller

In the most beautiful city in the world, Sandy Edwards finds an ancient culture living in the present.

18 July 2017

The Loop: Shattered structures

Insights from artists working in shattered academic institutions, warnings against group-think, dogma and echo chambers, and thoughts on the paradigm shift in Trump’s USA. The week’s necessary art reads, from the RealTime team, to you.

18 July 2017

The Deep Archive: Annemarie Jonson, Bad Boy Bubby’s sound design

Annemarie Jonson

From 1994, RealTime’s first year, comes Annemarie Jonson’s virtuosic account of the film’s intensely personal world experienced through the genius of a sound design that embeds us in Bubby’s consciousness.

18 July 2017

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

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Open City was supported 1994-2018 by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding body, and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy (VACS), an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.

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