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Teamlab: natural digital

Keith Gallasch

Screen works by Japan’s teamLab were a highlight of Adelaide’s 2016 OzAsia Festival. Sample the superb animation of crashing waves and the slowed sweep of brushstroke art in these evocations of traditional art now showing in Sydney.

10 May 2017

Unravelling McFamily-sized myths

Luke Goodsell

Luke Goodsell finds that a hybrid documentary by Australian director Kitty Green about the murder of JonBenét Ramsey opens onto a wider examination of performance and the construction of popular myth.

10 May 2017

Ambulante film festival, Mexico City: Travelling doco fest vs corruption

Ann Deslandes

Ann Deslandes reports that Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna’s Ambulante documentary festival gamely plays in all kinds of cinemas and public spaces, with a 2017 focus on violence and corruption.

10 May 2017

Project O & impossible places

Osunwunmi

London-based dance collaborators Jamila Johnson-Small and Alexandrina Hemsley tell Osunwunmi about the anti-assimilationist ethic that drives their performances beyond the constraints of racism and traditional notions of virtuosity.

10 May 2017

More than Treats

Keith Gallasch

In its Treats program Shopfront premieres The Carousel, a powerful all-female play about young co-dependent sisters “working through a kind of madness towards release without abandoning their love for each other,” writes Keith Gallasch.

10 May 2017

Globalisation: upside/downside

Kathryn Kelly: Kiah Reading vs The World

10 May 2017

In the beginning…

Kathryn Kelly: Applespiel, Jarrod Duffy Is Not Dead

10 May 2017

THE LOOP

10 May 2017

10 May 2017

Project O: into impossible places

Osunwunmi: interview, Jamila Johnson-Small & Alexandrina Hemsley

10 May 2017

Lili Almog: Lifting the veil

Keith Gallasch: Lili Almog, The Space Within

10 May 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