Editorial 28 June 2017

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City of Ladies: uneasy utopias

Sarinah Masukor

Sarinah Masukor observes conflicting visions of feminist struggle unfold randomly by algorithm in a singular new video work, The City of Ladies, inspired by a utopian medieval text.

From archive into the future

Lauren Carroll Harris

A retrospective of Sydney feminist cinema at the Sydney Film Festival points not just to a hidden archive of experimental and innovative women’s filmmaking, but a potential future for Australian cinema, writes an inspired Lauren Carroll Harris.

Sydney Film Festival’s engaging outliers

Katerina Sakkas

Katerina Sakkas’ search for non-mainstream, experimental and eerie features in the 2017 festival program is rewarded with idiosyncratic works by Thai, Afghan and New Zealand filmmakers.

Interview: Mark Howett, Good Little Soldier

Keith Gallasch

Perth’s Ochre Contemporary Dance Company presents Artistic Director Mark Howett’s Good Little Soldier, a personally-driven account of the effect of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder on soldiers and their families.

Wireless: fear of phones

Kathryn Kelly

In Wireless, choreographer Lisa Wilson and composer Paul Charlier boldly reveal how “the joyous freedom of handheld technology has been replaced by a monolithic and disturbing entrapment,” writes Kathryn Kelly.

The people remember, the city listens

Ann Deslandes

Ann Deslandes reports from Mexico City on innovative artists’ nurturing of collective memory and political reflection via the public gathering of sounds and music on digital platforms.

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.