Rik Rue, sound collagist

Jon Rose & contributors

In a richly evocative socio-cultural account of decades of musical life in Sydney and beyond, Jon Rose and fellow artists applaud the contribution made by a very special sound artist, Rik Rue.

Revelation Film Festival: the joy of bafflement

Lauren Carroll Harris

Revelation Perth International Film Festival Program Director Jack Sargeant speaks with Lauren Carroll Harris about the value of films that embody the confusion of living in an ever-stranger world of fake news and virtual existence.

Performance nurturers 2: Vitalstatistix

Despite the depredations of the Brandis funding heist, Port Adelaide’s Vitalstatistix fights through with local and national incubations, works-in-progress and innovative collaboratations, Emma Webb tells Ben Brooker.

The Mill: the book

Robert Reid

In its documentation of an influential and ground-breaking Australian theatre company, Meredith Rogers’ The Mill: Experiments in Theatre and Community makes “a vital contribution to the history of Australian theatre,” writes Robert Reid.

Editorial 7 June 2017

The 7 June edition of RealTime features Christian Thompson [above], music from Hollis Taylor, Philip Samartzis, Liquid Architecture and Julian Day, and addresses the arts criticism crisis. Read the editorial.

Kunstenfestivaldesarts: mirror trap

Mish Grigor

Mish Grigor looks for new grand narratives and ways of telling promised by one of Europe’s most adventurous performing arts festivals and finds herself in an audience locked in a room for 24 hours.

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.