Liveworks 2018: Art testing

Keith Gallasch

Keith Gallasch welcomes the challenges to form, thinking and feeling provided by Performance Space’s dexterous experimental art programming, in which Branch Nebula’s High Performance Packing Tape and Rianto’s Medium proved to be exacting highlights alongside impressive works by John A Douglas, Appelspiel, Asuna and more.

The spirit of the place: 8 years of writing for RealTime

Urszula Dawkins

Urszula Dawkins evocatively reflects on adventures in reviewing highly unusual works for RealTime that tell of how we inhabit and generate places, literally and metaphorically, from the Arctic to the mind and digital imaginings.

Horror in RealTime: lovely, dark and deep

Katerina Sakkas

Katerina Sakkas created a special niche in RealTime for horror film — especially works by Australians and women in particular, in part inspired by her coverage of three of Tasmania’s Stranger With My Face festivals. Delving into her passion for the genre, she reveals its capacity to be much more than escapist.

Editorial 10 October 2018

As a prelude to our five-hour open conversation, RealTime in real time, as part of the Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art, this edition is packed with archival delights.

Liveworks: RealTime in real time

Unfolding over 5 hours on Sunday 21 October at the Liveworks Festival, RealTime in real time will be an open conversation charting the remarkable transformation of the art experience over the last quarter century and our response to it, as writers, artists and audiences.

Living the RealTime life

Kirsten Krauth

Kirsten Krauth vividly recalls her RealTime years 1998-2002, as an evolving writer, Assistant Editor and Editor of the OnScreen supplement, embracing Australian film, hypertext and much more, including a one-off stint as Ivana Caprice, digital porn artist.

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.