jan 31, 2012
articles/reviews
artv: video interview
kate champion on force majeure & sydney theatre company's never did me any harmKeith Gallasch talks with director/choreographer Kate Champion on set about her latest work premiering premiering in the Sydney Festival and then playing in the Adelaide Festival
natalie jeremijenko & mihir desai, wilderness adventures for the palate
Urszula Dawkins samples the exotic edible artworks created as part of the Cross(X)Species Adventure Club exploring environmental sustainability
interview: jonathan holloway, perth international arts festival
Keith Gallasch gets the run down on Jonathan Holloway's first feast for WA audiences
pact’s beguiled; shh hybrid arts’ how to lose sight
Teik-Kim Pok is immersed in recent experiential performances by Sydney emerging artists
21st international annual flickerfest short film festival
Keith Gallasch samples Flickerfest 2012's shortfilm competition before it hits the road
the mechanical piano, waapa
Sam Gillies is intrigued by the collaboration between man and machine in recent compositions for the Disklavier
in the loop
in the loop jan 31
realtime's advance wordU-Ram Choe, John Curtin Gallery & the Proximity festival of one-on-one art, Perth; World Theatre Festival, Brisbane; Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival & National Indigenous Photo Forum, Melbourne; Carnegie 18: New Music Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne; Sound Kapital, Carriageworks, Sydney; Sculpture at Scenic World, Blue Mountains, NSW; Calls for proposals - ISEA2012; City of Sydney; Serial Space's Time Machine
nov 22, 2011
articles/reviews
granaz moussavi’s my tehran for sale
Dan Edwards cuts through the controversy surrounding the arrest of actress Marzieh Vafamehr, to appreciate the depth and artistry of this Australian/Iranian film
srdjan spasojevic’s a serbian film
Jack Sargeant questions the decision of the Classification Review Board which sees A Serbian Film banned in Australia and defends filmmakers' right to shock
wired open day 2011, muttama, nsw
Shannon O'Neill travels to Sarah Last's WIRED Lab to experience country hospitality and astounding sounds
archive highlights
the NOW now
As the NOW now festival approaches its 11th year, Gail Priest explores RealTime's coverage of the event over the decade revealing a snapshot of the evolving improv community in Australia.
features
contributor profile: dan edwards
Regular RealTime writer Dan Edwards tell us a little about himself and why he writes about the arts
in the loop
realtime's advance word
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer lecture and exhibition, MCA; The Horse's Mouth, festival of autobiographical performance, The Old Fitzroy; DVD editions - dLux and Shortplay; Melbourne sounds - Robin Fox's Giant Theremin, Cara Anne Simpson's Geo Sound Helmets; Dale Gorfinkel's Out Hear Festival; Shen Shaomin's The Day After Tomorrow and Beijing Residency, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art; Natalie Jeremijenko’s Cross(x)Species Adventure Club, Carbon Arts, Sydney, Melbourne, Avoca; FotoFreo Fringe call for proposals
nov 8, 2011
articles/reviews
sydney fringe festival @ pact
Caroline Wake looks at some bold solos: Alice Mary Cooper's Clown Lights Stage; Nathan Harrison's The art and craft of approaching your head of department to submit a request for a raise; Bodysnatchers' Gobbledygook; Emeline Forster's Dust; and Meiwah Williams' La dos Fridas
christine colllins, ray harris, aeaf
Chris Reid contemplates the viewer as actor in two recent installation works: I may have to see YOU again, Charlie by Collins and Hold me Close and Let me Go/ I've been here before by Harris
game on, theatre of rhythm & dance
Keith Gallasch is intrigued by the cross-cultural collaboration between choreographer Annalouise Paul, dancer Miranda Wheen and classical Indian tabla player Bobby Singh
in the loop
realtime's advance word
Attempted censorship of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio's On the Concept of the Face, regarding the Son of God in Paris; Amsterdam multimedia group PIPS:Lab in Sydney & Perth; Danielle Micich's Shiver, Performing Lines WA, Perth; Restless Dance Theatres' Debut 3—the dancers direct, Adelaide; Ilbijerri Theatre Company, The Minutes of Evidence Project and La Mama's Coranderrk, Melbourne; State Library of Queensland's Flash Women, Brisbane; Australia Council's National touring framework consultation
oct 25, 2011
articles/reviews
katarzyna sitarz, choreographer
Keith Gallasch talks to the 2011 Tanja Liedtke Fellow about her time in Australia
fresh meat 2011, melbourne recital centre/nmn
Matthew Lorenzon is impressed by the range of approaches in this annual young composers concert
lucky, ipan productions, new theatre
Lucky prompts Caroline Wake to reflect on how theatre works can best explore people smuggling and the plight of refugees
in the loop
realtime's advance word
Brisbane International Film Festival; How Does Your Arts Career Grow?, Adelaide Festival Centre & Carclew Youth Arts; Backbone Youth Arts 2high Festival and Future Voices Forum; Adam Cruickshank, The Half Asleep Pilgrim, West Space; Tashmadada & Creative Non-Fiction's Australian issue essay contest; Hans Van den Broek collaboration, Homeland, FraserStudios, plus Open Day; Pop-Up Oxford Street expressions of interest.
earbash
avantwhatever 002-005
Gail Priest on releases by Gulbenkoglu Gorfinkel; Ben Byrne; Alex White; Ivan Lysiak
sep 21, 2011
features
realtime @ totally huge new music festival
RealTime on-site at TURA’s Totally Huge New Music Festival in Perth. Daily reviews plus video interviews with Marina Rosenfeld, composer in residence and Eugene Ughetti, Speak Percussion, ensemble in residence
in the loop
realtime's advanced word
Rules of Play, Tin Sheds Gallery, Performance Month, Peloton, Sydney; Art & About, Sydney; This Is Not Art, Newcastle, NSW; Atlas, Melbourne Fringe; Eighth Blackbird, Sydney Opera House; Site & Sound call for proposals, Leichhardt Council
sep 6, 2011
articles/reviews
waiting for asylum, university of queensland art museum
Caroline Wake examines the invisibility but also the visions of asylum seekers in three recent exhibitions
the danger ensemble, the hamlet apocalypse
Douglas Leonard is curiously vivified by the end of the world in the final offering of the La Boite Indie series
hidden: places & spaces, gertrude street
Kate Warren discovers big visions and hidden treasures in this year's Gertrude Street Projection Festival
portal
contemporary classical music onlineMatthew Lorenzon surveys national and international online resources concerned with the practice of contemporary classical/new music
in the loop
realtime's advance word
RealTime onsite @ Totally Huge New Music Festival, Perth; selections from Sydney Fringe Festival & Sydney Underground Film Festival; OzAsia 2011, Adelaide Festival Centre; Tarryn Gill & Pilar Mata Dupont's Stadium, PICA, Perth; Warwick Thornton's Stranded, Stills Gallery, Sydney; Bindi Cole, Seven Times Seven, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne; Bangarra Dance Theatre, Belong, Wollongong & Melbourne
aug 23, 2011
articles/reviews
underbelly, cockatoo island
Gail Priest, Teik-Kim Pok and Sarah Miller explore the plenitude of performance and installation in the 2011 Underbelly Festival
peter blamey, emily morandini, ican
Dan MacKinlay delights in the post-consumer DIY of recent audio installations at ican.
the little con, dancehouse
Jana Perkovic is swept up by the moment in The Little Con's improvised one-night-only performance at Dancehouse
studio
soda_jerk, the carousel
The culture-jamming duo's most recent work presented at Fremantle Art Centre is a performance lecture exploring death and immortality in cinema. Interviewed by Laetitia Wilson.
in the loop
realtime's advance word
Samantha Scott's Man Made Hybrid, Craft Cubed 2011; Public Fitting, Mark Titmarsh, Todd Robinson, MOP Projects; Max Lyandvert's Phonography, Paddington Reservoir; The Spare Room, New Theatre; La Boite Indie, The Hamlet Apocalypse, The Danger Ensemble; CIA Studios, Reckless Sleepers workshop
jul 26, 2011
articles/reviews
scenario, icinema
James Paull speaks with Edward Scheer about the pleasures and possibilities of interactive cinema in iCinema’s Scenario, presented at the Sydney Film Festival
anne landa award, art gallery of nsw
Somaya Langley takes in Unguided Tours: The Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts Exhibition, 2011 at the Art Gallery of NSW
without and without
Matthew Clayfield wanders through and wonders about a cardboard Manila in Within and Without at the Blacktown Arts Centre
contributor profiles
Our series on RealTime contributors continues with profiles of Sydney-based visual arts writer Ella Mudie and Adelaide-based music and visual arts writer Chris Reid
in the loop
realtime news and advance word
Land, Sea and Sky: Contemporary Art of the Torres Strait Islands, GoMA; Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide: British Art Now, Art Gallery of SA; A Mini Festival of New Performance, Adelaide Festival Centre; STRUT Dance, PICA; Sweet Bird andsoforth, ATYP; Aphids, Thrashing Without Looking, Melbourne
jul 12, 2011
articles/reviews
dead cargo, empire burning, metro arts
Doug Leonard savours two independent productions at Metro Arts—Tim Dashwood and Nigel Poulton’s Dead Cargo and Eugene Gilfedder's Empire Burning
the business, belvoir
It’s a long way from Maxim Gorky’s original but Keith Gallasch finds much to admire in Jonathan Gavin’s grim comedy The Business
sleeping beauty
Oliver Downes considers Julia Leigh’s debut feature, the lush but enigmatic Sleeping Beauty
alex davies, the black box sessions
Gail Priest is startled by Alex Davies’ new work, The Black Box Sessions at UTS Gallery
in the loop
in the loop
PS122, New York; Soda_Jerk at Revelation Perth International Film Festival and Fremantle Arts Centre; Gertrude Projection Festival, Melbourne; Melbourne International Film Festival; Side to One, Adelaide and Sydney
jun 28, 2011
articles/reviews
the barak commissions, melbourne
Kate Warren rediscovers Aboriginal leader William Barak through the evocative works of Vernon Ah Kee, Jonathan Jones and Brook Andrew at Melbourne's NGV Ian Potter Centre
applespiel and nat randall, tiny stadiums
At Sydney's Tiny Stadiums Festival Caroline Wake encounters Applespiel’s Executive Stress/Corporate Retreat and Nat Randall’s Cheer Up Kid
trapture, sydney
Matthew Clayfield looks at the breakdown of a couple's break-up in Sands Through the Hourglass’s performance Trapture
studio
nasim nasr
Chris Reid reflects on Adelaide-based Iranian artist Nasim Nasr's comments about her works Rebirth and Women in Shadow
in the loop
realtime news and advance word
Post, Who's the Best?, STC; Bully Beef Stew, PACT; Belong, Bangarra Dance Theatre, QPAC; Shaun Tan: The Art of Story, Brisbane Powerhouse; Underbelly Arts Festival, Sydney; Liquid Architecture: National Festival of Sound Art; Arab Film Festival; Christoph Schlingesief, 54th Venice Biennale
may 24, 2011
articles/reviews
here i am
Surveying the best of the 2011 Adelaide Film Festival, Keith Gallasch admires Beck Cole's feature debut about challenges for urban Indigenous women, Here I Am
shaun gladwell, acmi
Vivienne Gaskin speaks to Shaun Gladwell about the significant innovations realised in his Stereo Sequences commission from ACMI
imperial panda festival, sydney
Caroline Wake looks at form and meta-form in two and a half weeks of excellent work by Rhubarb Rhubarb, Charlie Garber & Gareth Davies, Zoe Coombs Marr, Claudia O'Doherty, Dr Brown and Miles O'Neil
lucas ihlein and diego bonetto, tending
Alana Hunt speaks with the artists and amateur gardeners behind the eco-venture Tending at Sydney College of the Arts
contributor profiles
In the second installment of our new series on RealTime contributors, Matthew Lorenzon and Carl Nilsson-Polias tell us who they are and why they write
in the loop
realtime news and advance word
HighRise: An Intimate Portrait of a Vertical Neighbourhood, Auburn; Within and Without, Blacktown Arts Centre; pvi at Vitalstatistix, Port Adelaide; Vernacular Cultures and Contemporary Art from Australia, India and the Philippines, La Trobe University Museum of Art; Waiting for Asylum: Figures From an Archive, UQ Art Museum; Desperate Optimists, Australian tour; Penelopa, Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney, Art Gallery of NSW
earbash
decibel, disintegration: mutation
Chris Reid praises Decibel's deeply satisfying sonic expansion of musical possibilities on their latest CD
may 10, 2011
articles/reviews
china: creative expression on notice
To start our new series Burning Issue, Dan Edwards considers the case of Ai Weiwei and the rising cultural repression in China
restless dance theatre's take me there
Jonathan Bollen looks at the role of memory in Restless Dance Theatre's Take Me There
archive highlights
art & disability in australia
To coincide with our review of Take Me There, Anna Hickey-Moody looks back at our coverage of Restless Dance Theatre, Back to Back Theatre, Rawcus Theatre and others
in the loop
realtime news and advance word
Mike Majkowski, Decibel, Sunwrae String Quartet, Canberra International Music Festival; Experimenta: Utopia Now, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery; Physical Video, GoMA; Winner Douglas Sirk Box Set; Human Rights Arts and Film Festival, Melbourne; Head On Photo Festival, Sydney
earbash
blip, calibrated
Gail Priest enjoys the paradox of recording improvisation in Blip's Calibrated
various, listen to the weather
Gail Priest is intrigued by a different approach to ecological audio in Flaming Pines' release Listen to the Weather
apr 5, 2011
articles/reviews
annette shun wah's china heart
In d/Lux/MediaArts' latest production, iPhone in hand, Kirsten Krauth goes 'looking for love' in Sydney's Chinatown
features
portal: contemporary performance online
Our guide to the best and latest websites devoted to contemporary performance around the world
contributor profiles
Our new series on RealTime contributors commences with Jana Perkovic and Urszula Dawkins, who tell us about themselves and why they write
studio
fiona mcgregor
Ella Mudie reviews Fiona McGregor's latest work, Vertigo, and interviews the writer and visual artist about the day-long durational performance remediated as a five-hour video installation
in the loop
realtime news and advance word
Bonita Ely, Three Rivers, AEAF; The Right to the City, TinSheds Gallery; The Waterloo Girls; Tiny Stadiums, PACT; Yang Fudong, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
mar 22, 2011
articles/reviews
realtime @ dance massive
From March 15 to 27 RealTime is in residence at Melbourne's Dance Massive. See reviews of Chunky Move, Rosalind Crisp, Michelle Heaven, Shaun McLeod, Narelle Benjamin, Branch Nebula. PLUS video interviews
reuben margolin sculpts for chunky move
John Bailey interviews sculptor Reuben Margolin about his incredible kinetic scupltures and his collaboration with Chunky Move on Connected
jacopo godani guests at the sydney dance company
Erin Brannigan speaks with Italian choreographer Jacopo Godani about his training, his time with William Forsythe and his new work for the Sydney Dance Company
wim wenders' pina bausch tribute
Keith Gallasch looks forward to Wim Wenders' new 3D film Pina—to be screened at the upcoming Festival of German Film—and back to his memories of Bausch's work
in the loop
photography across australia
Photography & Place: Australian Landscape Photography 1970s Until Now, AGNSW; Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life 1990-2005 and The Begin-Again: A Contemporary Art Tour at Night, MCA; National Photographic Prize, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; Wats On Ur iPhone? West Gippsland Art Gallery; American Dreams: 20th Century Photography from George Eastman House, Bendigo Art Gallery
earbash
new topology sounds
Chris Reid savours the complex and luxurious sounds of Topology's latest album Difference Engine
mar 7, 2011
articles/reviews
opinion: the wild duck re-make
A dissenting Keith Gallasch admires Belvoir's Wild Duck but asks can it match Ibsen's original?
putting the work back into networks
Lisa Gye is enmeshed in the world of Networks (Cells & Silos), the first exhibition in the intriguingly designed new Monash University Museum of Art
new music: challenge as fun
At MONA FOMA in Hobart, Matthew Lorenzon revels in the sounds of Speak Percussion, Chiri Bae Il Dong, Cambodian Space Project, Jon Rose and more
refracted cities
Sitting on a street in Sydney's Chinatown, Christen Cornell enjoys video art from and about China's many metropolises at 4A Cinema Alley
in the loop
realtime news and advance word
Imperial Panda Festival, Sydney; Come Out Festival, Adelaide; Re-enchantment: An Immersive Journey into the Hidden Meanings of Fairy Tales, ABC TV, Radio and Online; Afterglow: Performance Art and Photography, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
jan 17, 2011
articles/reviews
Inbetween Time 2010
RealTime’s writers review the Inbetween Time Festival of Live Art and Intrigue 2010 in Bristol, UK
the unbearable lightness of unconsciousness
Keith Gallasch considers the ambivalent after-effects of survival in Force Majeure's gripping Not in a Million Years
non-danse's indelible traces
Weeks after, Alex Lazaridis Ferguson is still immersed in choreographer Christian Rizzo's enigmatic b.c. janvier, 1545, fontainbleu
a comic-romantic crusader for our times
Kirsten Krauth succumbs to the charms of a would-be superhero without super powers in Leon Ford's excellent feature film debt, Griff the Invisible
nature, technologically
Laetitia Wilson encounters the environmentally focused art of Kerstin Ergenzinger, Guillaume Marmin and Yi Ping Yang, Yun-Ju Chen and Chih-Chieh Huang in Taipei's Digital Arts Festival, Cluster
in the loop
realtime news and advance word
Flickerfest Tour; Lisa Havilah is the new CEO of CarriageWorks, Jeff Khan joins Performance Space; Arctic Residency report at Midsumma; Australian-Asian art connections; Colbert and censorship
dec 22, 2010
articles/reviews
live art & beyond
Sophie Travers speaks with Helen Cole, the producer of the Inbetween Time Festival of Live Art and Intrigue, Bristol, 2010
for you, against you
Timothy X Atack feels the intriguing push-me-pull-you of partnerships in the work of Jones and Llyr, Search Party, Action Hero and Pieter Ampe & Guilherme Garrido
complicity, responsibility, reality
Osunwunmi holds her breath while watching Hancock & Kelly Live's Iconographia and stops breathing altogether for Teresa Margolles' Aire
live art mouth to mouth
If IBT asks "What next for the body?", Timothy X Atack wonders what answers (or not) Jo Bannon, Alex Bradley, Rod Maclachlan and Teresa Margolles might provide
man on the edge of...
Timothy X Atack survives the onslaught of Kim Noble's two shows Kim Noble Will Die and You Are Not Alone
oblique ethnicities
Osunwunmi contemplates the subtle complexities of Zoran Todorovic's Warmth and Sarah Jane Norman's Take This, For It Is My Body
you will live forever
Timothy X Atack examines the traces left by Helen Cole, Manuel Vason, Duncan Speakman & Sarah Anderson, Back to Back Theatre and Tim Etchells
two trips to enigma
Osunwunmi experiences duration and unexpected desire in surprising performances by Paul Hurley and Carter & Zierle
archive highlights
Inbetween Time 2006
To coincide with our coverage of Inbetween Time 2010, we look back at the highlights of Inbetween Time 2006
nov 22, 2010
articles/reviews
skate, create, destroy
Laetitia Wilson admires skateboarding as art in Suspended Motion at The Bakery, Perth
a childhood of theatre
Bryoni Trezise learns from the unconventional wisdom of Chiara Guidi about children and theatre at Campbelltown Arts Centre
archive highlights
romeo castelluci and societas raffaello sanzio
To coincide with Chiara Guidi's Australian visit, we survey RealTime writing on Romeo Castelluci and Societas Raffaello Sanzio
in the loop
RealTime news and advance word
James Turrell, Within without, NGA; Lyndal Jones, Rehearsing Catastrophe #1: The Ark in Avoca, Victoria; Melbourne Workers Theatre, Yet to Ascertain the Nature of the Crime; version 1.0 and post, A Distressing Scenario, Sydney; exist-ence: a festival of performance, live and action art, Brisbane; Inbetween Time Festival of Live Art and Intrigue, Bristol
earbash
various
Peter Blamey appreciates the sounds of a 'lost decade' of the not-so-distant past in Volume 2 of Artefacts of Australian Experimental Music, 1974-1983
nov 8, 2010
articles/reviews
accidental tourist
Caroline Wake travels to Bosnia and back with version 1.0's Kym Vercoe in Seven Kilometres North-East
melbourne to mexico
Sophie Travers speaks with Phillip Adams about BalletLab's upcoming projects in Melbourne, Mexico, Tasmania and beyond
adventures in perception
Saige Walton sees the micro and macro simultaneously in epi-thet and en masse at the Melbourne Internationals Arts Festival
memorial to a memorial
Gail Priest reminisces about the glory days of Lanfranchi's Memorial Discotheque while watching Richard Baron's new documentary
in the loop
RealTime news and advance word
Rolling Stock, Junee; Change, Monash University Museum of Art; the Awesome International Arts Festival for Bright Young Things, Perth; Brisbane International Film Festival; Spare Parts and Topology, Brisbane Powerhouse; VOICE: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media, Platform Paper, Moving Across Disciplines: Dance in the 21st Century, Presentiments from the Spider Garden
oct 25, 2010
articles/reviews
festival on country
Jane Hampson takes in the remarkable Mahbilil Festival in Jabiru, Northern Territory
ghost stories
Caroline Wake listens to master storyteller Trevor Jamieson relate the tale of Albert Namatjira’s life in the Big hART/Belvoir co-production Namatjira
there will be blood
Fiona McGregor encounters Bloodbath, a collaboration between Bump Projects and the Sydney Roller Derby
strange visions
Keith Gallasch explores the delirium of Hybrid Dream by Eclective Productions
in the loop
RealTime news and advance word
Restless Dance Theatre, Next of Kin; Ensemble Offspring, Sounds Absurd; one step at a time like this, Southern Crossings; Suspended Motion, Breadbox Gallery; Dawn Albinger, No Door On Her Mouth – A Lyrical Amputation; Light from Light, State Library of Queensland and Shanghai Library
sep 20, 2010
articles/reviews
censoring gay zombies
Denied classification for the Melbourne International Film Festival, LA Zombie was later defiantly screened by the Melbourne Underground Film Festival
dances of images & artefacts
Keith Gallasch is impressed by Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Of Earth & Sky, opening in Melbourne this week, featuring new young choreographer Daniel Riley McKinley and Frances Rings
sino-supernova
Ella Mudie marvels at the art of Wang Zhiyuan, Wang Jiuliang, Liu Dao/island6, Chen Fei, Yang Fudong and Li Hongbo at The Big Bang, White Rabbit Gallery’s third major exhibition
archive highlights
contemporary chinese cinema
Dan Edwards looks back at a decade of great Chinese film, including the work of Liu Jiayin, Zhao Dayong, Hu Jie, Ou Ning, Zhao Liang and Jia Zhangke
in the loop
RealTime news and advance word
Bloodbath, Bump Projects and Sydney Roller Derby League; Chunky Move, Glow; 20 Years: Bold, Black, Brilliant, Melbourne Museum; Melbourne Fringe Festival; three new exhibitions at PICA; the Sydney Children’s Festival
earbash
clocked out, the wide alley
Keith Gallasch savours the sounds of cross-cultural collaboration between Brisbane-based Erik Griswold and Vanessa Tomlinson and Chinese composer Zou Xiangping
sep 7, 2010
articles/reviews
make art, drink, vomit
Doug Leonard finds himself on a bender (well, sort of) in Daniel Santangeli’s Room 328 in Brisbane
singing and suing
Philip Brophy sees 'a war against pop' in Larrikin Music Publishing suing Men at Work over the use of Kookaburra: "a risible iconography that attempts to monopolise the Australian voice as one big rural campfire"
swimming home
Having previously reviewed Khoa Do’s Mother Fish as a play, Caroline Wake takes a look at the new film version—the first in a planned “refugee trilogy”
archive highlights
art & asylum
We survey art made by, with and about asylum seekers over the past decade, including the work of Mickie Quick, Mireille Astore, Mike Parr, Urban Theatre Projects, Ros Horin, Version 1.0, Tom Zubrycki, Clara Law and more
in the loop
RealTime news and advance word
Sydney Fringe Festival; National Aboriginal Art Awards, Darwin ; Qld Premier’s National New Media Art Award; Simryn Gill, Gathering; Australia Dances 1945-65; Dream Worlds, Australian Moving Image 2010, Beijing
earbash
clocked out, foreign objects
Greg Hooper enjoys the sounds of Vanessa Tomlinson and Erik Griswold on melodica, piano, percussion and a few things he couldn’t recognise
aug 23, 2010
articles/reviews
on edge, up north
Victoria Carless sees inner worlds revealed in (please give: it a moment), Shamelessly Glitzy Work and 2Whyte at the On Edge festival in Cairns
magnificent in defeat
Diana Klaosen admires works by Kirsty Hulm and Andrew Hustwaite & Anna Varendorff in The Un-Victorious an exhibition at the Criterion Gallery, Hobart
russian memories & miracles
Tom Redwood interviews Alexander Proshkin whose The Miracle is to screen at the 2010 Russian Resurrection Film Festival
in the loop
RealTime news and advance word
Tasmania's James Newitt in MCA's Primavera; The River Project; Continuum Sax, AIR, Speak Percussion; Stephanie Lake, Mix Tape; NYID's HOIST; AEAF & the Mildura Palimpsest; Khoa Do's Mother Fish; Internet censorship
earbash
matt chaumont, linea
Peter Blamey's ears, not to mention his speakers, bend to the low frequency sounds of Linea, the first release for the Avantwhatever organisation
aug 16, 2010
articles/reviews
election 2010: cultural policy
In an election where art has gone missing from major party campaigns, Keith Gallasch looks at the complexities of the cultural policy issue
election 2010: media
Caroline Wake watches the election campaign via TV, Twitter, Get Up! and activist art
election 2010: wishlists
Ever since Peter Garrett initiated a public discussion about cultural policy, a wishlist of strategies has been building towards a cultural policy
election 2010: cultural policy guide
Our brief, informal guide to some of the best books, essays, online material and broadcasts about Australian cultural policy
jul 26, 2010
articles/reviews
the bostock inheritance
Keith Gallasch especially admires Alanna Rose's The Caretaker, one of three mentored Indigenous films from Metro Screen
harmony: music, city, bodies
Zsuzsanna Soboslay finds herself immersed in the sound worlds of the Canberra International Festival of Chamber Music
making space in sao paulo
James Brennan looks at three Brazilian theatre companies investigating the relationship between public and theatrical space
features
the 10th indonesian dance festival
Five days, eight writers and 23 reviews of fascinating dance, including Meg Stuart and Philipp Gehmacher's Maybe Forever, from a Goethe-Institut workshop led by Keith Gallasch
in the loop
RealTime news and advance word
austraLYSIS and Halcyon, Sydney; Brodsky Quartet, Eddie Perfect and Topology, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane; Sizzle, Sydney; Lucy Guerin Inc's Human Interest Story, Melbourne; Jenny Kemp's Madeleine, Melbourne; Game On 2.0, Launceston; Anastasia Klose, Adelaide
earbash
sky needle, time hammer
Gail Priest rediscovers the joy of listening to vinyl thanks to this offering from Joel Stern, Ross Manning and Alex Cuffe
jul 12, 2010
articles/reviews
the 10th indonesian dance festival
Five days, eight writers and 23 reviews of fascinating dance from a Goethe-Institut workshop led by Keith Gallasch
memory flows: the shapes of water
Gail Priest engages with a range of media and installation responses to water in CMAI's Armory show
lou: coming of age in cane country
Kirsten Krauth plots the workings of nostalgia, dementia and desire in Belinda Chayko’s new feature film
new portraiture: cold tech, warm interior
Martyn Jolly comes face to face with works by Stelarc, Osang Gwon and others in Present Tense—digital works at the National Portrait Gallery
measure for measure: a delicate balance
Keith Gallasch is engrossed by the revealing interplay of stage and screen in Benedict Andrews' Company B production
in the loop
RealTime news and advance word
Rolex Arts Initiative Awards; NightTime Statewide: Everyday Hero, NSW; Stone/Castro’s Superheroes, Adelaide and Melbourne; Starfuckers, Wollongong; Luke George’s NOW NOW NOW, Melbourne; Persistence of Vision, FACT, Liverpool, UK; Amelia Jones lectures on Marina Abramovic at Artspace
jun 28, 2010
articles/reviews
hiroshi sugimoto, biennale of sydney
Gary Warner's vivid account of his encounter with Sugimoto's sparking Faraday Cage in the bowels of Cockatoo Island
blindside: the movie & motherhood
Kathleen Mary Fallon responds to the Sandra Bullock film in the context of Jedda, Night Cries, Australia and her own script for the film Call Me Mum
gesture: reeldance installations #4
Virginia Baxter is drawn into dance screen works that reconfigure bodies and spaces actual and virtual in installations scattered through a university.
animal kingdom
Kirsten Krauth is mesmerised by David Michôd's feature debut, a film expertly realised at every level and far removed from the Underbelly vision of Australian crime.
archive highlights
benedict andrews
Keith Gallasch surveys the career of visionary theatre director Benedict Andrews, introducing readers to the many RealTime reviews and articles on and even by the artist. Andrews' Measure for Measure for Company B at Belvoir St plays to July 25.
in the loop
RealTime news and advance word
Room 328 at Metro Arts, Brisbane; Under Milkwood at Sidetrack; Increased funding for NSW arts; Parramatta, creative city; New Cairns cultural precinct; ArtsNSW-UTS initiative, emptyspaces
may 24, 2010
articles/reviews
dramaturgies #4
Jonathan Marshall reports on issues arising in the fourth of the Dramaturgies seminars held in Melbourne
bindjareb pinjarra
Suzanne Spunner admires this improvised play (now touring to Brisbane Powerhouse and The Dreaming Festival) about an 1834 century massacre of Aboriginal people.
tatsumi orimoto, oil can
The Japanese artist invites volunteers and passersby to perform unrehearsed at Sydney's Centre 4a for Contemporary Asian Art
Gillian Armstrong's Love, Lust & Lies
Armstrong's revealing feature-length documentary is her fifth exploring the lives of three Adelaide women and now their daughters
in the loop
RealTime news and advance word
Heavy Metal Work Orchestra at Red Rattler; Dancenorth, The Cry, Townsville; Restaged Histories project, YOUTHvsPHYSICS at Brisbane Powerhouse; The Light in Winter, Melbourne, featuring Rafael Lozano-Hemmer; Vivid, Sydney
may 10, 2010
articles/reviews
speaking with the minister
NSW Arts Minister Virginia Judge initiates dialogue with the small to medium performing arts sector
wild party - vashti hughes ensemble
Megan Garret-Jones looks for the heat in a staging of Moncure March's 1927 poem
i love you too
Daina Reid's Australian romantic comedy feature fails to deliver that lovin' feeling
the past will betray
Tom Hall's interactive installation marks a step forward according to Matthew O'Neill
gethsemane - the song company
Zsuzsanna Soboslay is haunted by Gerard Brophy's Calcutta setting for Easter
in repose
Mayu Kanamori and collaborators explore the meanings of death and homeland for Japanese Australians
in the loop
RealTime news and advance word
Save Beijing's Caochangdi art district!; Eve Sussman's Rape of the Sabine Women in ReelDance Festival; hang out at SuperDeluxe in the Sydney Biennale; new digital poems online from Jason Nelson
earbash
mike majkowski, ink on paper
The detailed improvisatory studies on double-bass delight Chris Reid
apr 27, 2010
articles/reviews
jeff khan - next wave 2010
Director Jeff Khan talks about risks of scale and form in his innovative 2010 program
brian carbee, writer accidents happen
Interview with the dancer turned film writer about the evolution of his screenplay from dance to novel to film.
accidents happen
Keith Gallasch praises Andrew Lancaster's new Australian film for its wise and acerbic insights into the traps of grieving
salt
An intensely beautiful and personal documentary explores the astonishing landscape of Lake Eyre
beneath hill 60
Jeremy Hartley Sims' suspenseful feature on Australian miners burrowing under the Western Front
in the loop
realtime news and advance word
Zen Zen Zo does Dante's Inferno; Melbourne International Jazz Festival Highlights; media artist Lynette Wallworth makes opera interactive; Adam Geczy's performance art in Gent
mar 29, 2010
articles/reviews
jo dudley
Berlin-based Australian's dynamic music theatre, Louis & Bebe
katrina lazaroff
Adelaide inSPACE premiere of new multimedia work about family and bushfire
matt prest & clare britton
immersive new performance work, Hole in the Wall, at Campbelltown Arts Centre
love me tender
Tom Holloway's adventurous new play about 21st century father-daughter relationships
carmilla hyde
A close look at Dave de Vries' award winning revenge thriller feature film
in the loop
realtime news and advance word
Willoh S Weiland is new Aphids artistic director; more art for Easter; media arts and Australia's rivers; Women in Piracy—art, adaptation, appropriation & theft
mar 15, 2010
articles/reviews
in the loop
realtime news and advance wordNew German film, video art, Easter shows, live art
unaustralian cinema
An argument for making Asian film more visible in Australian screen culture.
lake mungo as medium
The ancient lake figures revealingly in a horror film and a media art installation.
archive highlights
RealTime 2001 now online
With the addition of RealTime 41-46 the RealTime archive now offers 55 complete editions!
mar 1, 2010
articles/reviews
in the loop
realtime news and advance wordRealTime-Performance Space Open Forum: In place, inner place
internet censorship
investigating new legislationAre creative practices on the internet threatened?
the endless garment
the art of machine knittingCutting-edge knitwear comes off the runway and into the gallery
sylvie blocher
what is missing?Encounter remarkable "living pictures"
gazing at the contemporary world
japanese photographyA unique selection of images that reflect key changes in society and photographic trends
tooling the art of electronics
dorkbot-syd group showExperimental electronic artwork PLUS view video documentation of interactive installation tr-IO
bran nue dae
rachel perkinsA popular film that goes beyond filmic conventions
archive highlights
lucy guerin inc.
acclaimed dance companyReviews, interviews and articles from the archive
jan 25, 2010
articles/reviews
apt6 cinema program
film and animationAn extensive selection from South East Asia to the Middle East
olafur eliasson & lynette wallworth
sydney festival 2010A review of two seductive media arts exhibitions
archive highlights
urban theatre projects
A selection of reviews, articles and interviews
features
new media arts online
portal updateThe best sites, blogs and tools for exploring New Media Arts online
dec 18, 2009
articles/reviews
in the loop
realtime news and advance wordUrgent–Cultural Policy Discussion; NOW Now Festival; a new Sydney Fringe Festival
brown council
big showReview PLUS view a video excerpt
what is music? sydney
experimental sound festivalReview PLUS view Miles Van Dorssen's Sydney sound installation
archive highlights
what is music? festival
coverage from the archiveArticles and reviews from 2002-2009
features
realtime soundcapsule #1
free downloadable compilationSound, experimental and new music from artists featured in RealTime over 2009
sound online
portal updateA guide to websites that cater to sound arts enthusiasts
studio
cara-ann simpson
noise cancellation: disrupting audio perceptionReview & interview
nov 23, 2009
articles/reviews
heart of gold
comic musical extravaganzaA rural-gothic mix of musical theatre with visual arts influences
the view from elsewhere
film and video art from asia and the middle eastAn expansive exhibition curated with scope and sensitivity
dominic redfern
stonewallPerformance-video installation PLUS view video documentation of the exhibition
archive highlights
sue healey
dance choreographerArticles, reviews and interviews PLUS view an excerpt from The Curiosities
studio
kate murphy
the appointmentReview, interview PLUS view an excerpt from The appointment
nov 6, 2009
articles/reviews
johanna billing
i'm lost without your rhythmReview and images
archive highlights
dance on screen
Reviews, articles & interviews from the archive
features
dance film online
portal updateStarter survey of dance film websites PLUS view dance drama machinima
studio
sam smith
special effectsReview & interview PLUS view Into the Void
earbash
new weird australia vol 1 & 2
various artistsFree-to-download musical experimentations in review
oct 26, 2009
articles/reviews
reality check
watching sylvania watersFly-on-the-wall inspired visual arts
wade marynowsky
the hosts: a masquerade of improvising automatonsAn encounter with interactive dancing robots
archive highlights
animation
Reviews, articles & interviews from the archive
studio
isobel knowles
i fell off my bikereview, artist statement PLUS view the animation
earbash
clare cooper & chris abrahams
germ studiesDX7 synthesiser and Chinese guzheng combine intriguingly
sep 22, 2009
articles/reviews
2009 melbourne fringe festival
previewProgram shortlist and interview
come hither noise
audio-visual worksMulti-sensory experiences in review
primavera 2009
museum of contemporary artAustralia's up and coming artists under 35
archive highlights
australian indigenous film
film, animation, digital mediaInterviews and reviews from the archive
in the loop
realtime news
advance wordElectrofringe 2009; Wayfarer in Melbourne; Rong Rong; Lynette Wallworth documentary; Lucas Abela; Furas dels Baus workshop
sep 4, 2009
articles/reviews
beautiful kate
rachel wardConfronting taboo territory and subdued direction breaks new ground
cedar boys
serhat caradeeA finely crafted account of Lebanese-Australian life in Western Sydney
features
portal update
video artReviews of a selection of sites dedicated to video art and moving image
studio
jaki middleton & david lawrey
you're not thinking fourth dimensionallyTemporal and dimensional illusion at the MCA PLUS video excerpt
aug 21, 2009
articles/reviews
chronology arts
gradations of lightNew music, light, responsive video art and ideas
leavesley, costi & stringraphy
a nest of cinnamonJapanese-Australian collaboration using live and pre-recorded multimedia
archive highlights
keith armstrong
media artistArticles, reviews and interviews
features
induce workshop
on edge, cairnsVisual arts and performance reviews
studio
branch nebula
sweatReview & interview PLUS video excerpt
jul 17, 2009
archive highlights
liquid architecture
sound arts festivalArticles & reviews from the archive
studio
roger mills
idea of southA radiophonic transmission; review & artist statement
earbash
erdem helvacioglu
wounded breathReverberant processing of electroacoustic compositions
rice corpse
mrs riceAustralian-chinese collaboration
jul 3, 2009
articles/reviews
ernie althoff
the middle eightSculpture as music
nighttime: petty theft
an evening of short worksContentious cut and paste performances
archive highlights
rosie dennis
performance artistReviews, articles & interviews from the archive PLUS a video excerpt
studio
penelope cain
infestationReview & interview
in the loop
RealTime news and advance word
Room 328 at Metro Arts, Brisbane; Under Milkwood at Sidetrack; Increased funding for NSW arts; Parramatta, creative city; New Cairns cultural precinct; ArtsNSW-UTS initiative, emptyspaces


























































































































































































































































