James Nguyen and Yin Lan Soon: Call////Response (C.2) (2015)

Critical Video

Poet Emily Stewart is engaged by the subtle mood shifts and rhythms of a performance captured in single-take video in a suburban underpass. Watch it now.

Fraught blueprint for survival

Nerida Dickinson

In Blueprint, recent WAAPA graduates conjure a future in which Mars-bound trainees competitively aim for physical perfection, writes an impressed Nerida Dickinson.

Radio Gothic’s sonic mystery

Steve Dow

At Dark Mofo, Radio Gothic presents The Hanniford Tapes, a live radio performance about murder and paranoia, replete with live sound effects and a digital heightening of ambiguities, reports Steve Dow.

Creek learning

Chris Reid

In Creek Lore, a walk conducted by Laura Wills and OSCA along Adelaide’s neglected First Creek, Chris Reid hears of its Indigenous history, its ecology, sees a responsive artwork and collects rubbish.

Editorial 14 June 2017

Let’s get historical, an antidote to the hysterical politics of the moment. Read the editorial.

Amiable subversion: Black is the New White

Keith Gallasch

In Black is the New White, playwright Nakkiah Lui deftly takes on and wickedly ramps up the bourgeois comedy of manners to portray an Aboriginal middle class family, its prejudices and deeply felt sensitivities.

Seven Stories: archetypal imaginings

Keith Gallasch

With varying degrees of success, Ensemble Offspring’s Seven Stories brings together seven composers, poet, video artist and musicians to engage with primal tales in an ambitious concert.

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.