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jan 31, 2012

articles/reviews


artv: video interview
artv: video interview
kate champion on force majeure & sydney theatre company's never did me any harm

Keith 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
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
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
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
21st international annual flickerfest short film festival

Keith Gallasch samples Flickerfest 2012's shortfilm competition before it hits the road

the mechanical piano, waapa
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
in the loop jan 31
realtime's advance word

U-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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
katarzyna sitarz, choreographer

Keith Gallasch talks to the 2011 Tanja Liedtke Fellow about her time in Australia

fresh meat 2011, melbourne recital centre/nmn
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, 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
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
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 @ 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
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
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
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
hidden: places & spaces, gertrude street

Kate Warren discovers big visions and hidden treasures in this year's Gertrude Street Projection Festival

portal
portal
contemporary classical music online

Matthew Lorenzon surveys national and international online resources concerned with the practice of contemporary classical/new music

in the loop


realtime's advance word
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
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
peter blamey, emily morandini, ican

Dan MacKinlay delights in the post-consumer DIY of recent audio installations at ican.

the little con, dancehouse
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
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
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
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
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
without and without

Matthew Clayfield wanders through and wonders about a cardboard Manila in Within and Without at the Blacktown Arts Centre

contributor profiles
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
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
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
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
sleeping beauty

Oliver Downes considers Julia Leigh’s debut feature, the lush but enigmatic Sleeping Beauty

alex davies, the black box sessions
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
blip, calibrated

Gail Priest enjoys the paradox of recording improvisation in Blip's Calibrated

various, listen to the weather
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
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
portal: contemporary performance online

Our guide to the best and latest websites devoted to contemporary performance around the world

contributor profiles
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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
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
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
two trips to enigma

Osunwunmi experiences duration and unexpected desire in surprising performances by Paul Hurley and Carter & Zierle

archive highlights


Inbetween Time 2006
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
skate, create, destroy

Laetitia Wilson admires skateboarding as art in Suspended Motion at The Bakery, Perth

a childhood of theatre
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
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
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
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
accidental tourist

Caroline Wake travels to Bosnia and back with version 1.0's Kym Vercoe in Seven Kilometres North-East

melbourne to mexico
melbourne to mexico

Sophie Travers speaks with Phillip Adams about BalletLab's upcoming projects in Melbourne, Mexico, Tasmania and beyond

adventures in perception
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
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
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
festival on country

Jane Hampson takes in the remarkable Mahbilil Festival in Jabiru, Northern Territory

ghost stories
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
there will be blood

Fiona McGregor encounters Bloodbath, a collaboration between Bump Projects and the Sydney Roller Derby

strange visions
strange visions

Keith Gallasch explores the delirium of Hybrid Dream by Eclective Productions

in the loop


RealTime news and advance word
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
election 2010: media

Caroline Wake watches the election campaign via TV, Twitter, Get Up! and activist art

election 2010: wishlists
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
dramaturgies #4

Jonathan Marshall reports on issues arising in the fourth of the Dramaturgies seminars held in Melbourne

bindjareb pinjarra
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
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
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
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
speaking with the minister

NSW Arts Minister Virginia Judge initiates dialogue with the small to medium performing arts sector

wild party - vashti hughes ensemble
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
i love you too

Daina Reid's Australian romantic comedy feature fails to deliver that lovin' feeling

the past will betray
the past will betray

Tom Hall's interactive installation marks a step forward according to Matthew O'Neill

gethsemane - the song company
gethsemane - the song company

Zsuzsanna Soboslay is haunted by Gerard Brophy's Calcutta setting for Easter

in repose
in repose

Mayu Kanamori and collaborators explore the meanings of death and homeland for Japanese Australians

in the loop


RealTime news and advance word
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
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
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
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
accidents happen

Keith Gallasch praises Andrew Lancaster's new Australian film for its wise and acerbic insights into the traps of grieving

salt
salt

An intensely beautiful and personal documentary explores the astonishing landscape of Lake Eyre

beneath hill 60
beneath hill 60

Jeremy Hartley Sims' suspenseful feature on Australian miners burrowing under the Western Front

in the loop


realtime news and advance word
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
jo dudley

Berlin-based Australian's dynamic music theatre, Louis & Bebe

katrina lazaroff
katrina lazaroff

Adelaide inSPACE premiere of new multimedia work about family and bushfire

matt prest & clare britton
matt prest & clare britton

immersive new performance work, Hole in the Wall, at Campbelltown Arts Centre

love me tender
love me tender

Tom Holloway's adventurous new play about 21st century father-daughter relationships

carmilla hyde
carmilla hyde

A close look at Dave de Vries' award winning revenge thriller feature film

in the loop


realtime news and advance word
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
in the loop
realtime news and advance word

New German film, video art, Easter shows, live art

unaustralian cinema
unaustralian cinema

An argument for making Asian film more visible in Australian screen culture.

lake mungo as medium
lake mungo as medium

The ancient lake figures revealingly in a horror film and a media art installation.

archive highlights


RealTime 2001 now online
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
in the loop
realtime news and advance word

RealTime-Performance Space Open Forum: In place, inner place

internet censorship
internet censorship
investigating new legislation

Are creative practices on the internet threatened?

the endless garment
the endless garment
the art of machine knitting

Cutting-edge knitwear comes off the runway and into the gallery

sylvie blocher
sylvie blocher
what is missing?

Encounter remarkable "living pictures"

gazing at the contemporary world
gazing at the contemporary world
japanese photography

A unique selection of images that reflect key changes in society and photographic trends

tooling the art of electronics
tooling the art of electronics
dorkbot-syd group show

Experimental electronic artwork PLUS view video documentation of interactive installation tr-IO

bran nue dae
bran nue dae
rachel perkins

A popular film that goes beyond filmic conventions

archive highlights


lucy guerin inc.
lucy guerin inc.
acclaimed dance company

Reviews, interviews and articles from the archive

jan 25, 2010

articles/reviews


apt6 cinema program
apt6 cinema program
film and animation

An extensive selection from South East Asia to the Middle East

olafur eliasson & lynette wallworth
olafur eliasson & lynette wallworth
sydney festival 2010

A review of two seductive media arts exhibitions

archive highlights


urban theatre projects
urban theatre projects

A selection of reviews, articles and interviews

features


new media arts online
new media arts online
portal update

The best sites, blogs and tools for exploring New Media Arts online

dec 18, 2009

articles/reviews


in the loop
in the loop
realtime news and advance word

Urgent–Cultural Policy Discussion; NOW Now Festival; a new Sydney Fringe Festival

brown council
brown council
big show

Review PLUS view a video excerpt

what is music? sydney
what is music? sydney
experimental sound festival

Review PLUS view Miles Van Dorssen's Sydney sound installation

archive highlights


what is music? festival
what is music? festival
coverage from the archive

Articles and reviews from 2002-2009

features


realtime soundcapsule #1
realtime soundcapsule #1
free downloadable compilation

Sound, experimental and new music from artists featured in RealTime over 2009

sound online
sound online
portal update

A guide to websites that cater to sound arts enthusiasts

studio


cara-ann simpson

nov 23, 2009

articles/reviews


heart of gold
heart of gold
comic musical extravaganza

A rural-gothic mix of musical theatre with visual arts influences

the view from elsewhere
the view from elsewhere
film and video art from asia and the middle east

An expansive exhibition curated with scope and sensitivity

dominic redfern
dominic redfern
stonewall

Performance-video installation PLUS view video documentation of the exhibition

archive highlights


sue healey
sue healey
dance choreographer

Articles, reviews and interviews PLUS view an excerpt from The Curiosities

studio


kate murphy
kate murphy
the appointment

Review, interview PLUS view an excerpt from The appointment

nov 6, 2009

articles/reviews


johanna billing

archive highlights


dance on screen
dance on screen

Reviews, articles & interviews from the archive

features


dance film online
dance film online
portal update

Starter survey of dance film websites PLUS view dance drama machinima

studio


sam smith
sam smith
special effects

Review & interview PLUS view Into the Void

earbash


new weird australia vol 1 & 2
new weird australia vol 1 & 2
various artists

Free-to-download musical experimentations in review

oct 26, 2009

articles/reviews


reality check
reality check
watching sylvania waters

Fly-on-the-wall inspired visual arts

wade marynowsky
wade marynowsky
the hosts: a masquerade of improvising automatons

An encounter with interactive dancing robots

archive highlights


animation
animation

Reviews, articles & interviews from the archive

studio


isobel knowles
isobel knowles
i fell off my bike

review, artist statement PLUS view the animation

earbash


clare cooper & chris abrahams
clare cooper & chris abrahams
germ studies

DX7 synthesiser and Chinese guzheng combine intriguingly

sep 22, 2009

articles/reviews


2009 melbourne fringe festival
2009 melbourne fringe festival
preview

Program shortlist and interview

come hither noise
come hither noise
audio-visual works

Multi-sensory experiences in review

primavera 2009
primavera 2009
museum of contemporary art

Australia's up and coming artists under 35

archive highlights


australian indigenous film
australian indigenous film
film, animation, digital media

Interviews and reviews from the archive

in the loop


realtime news
realtime news
advance word

Electrofringe 2009; Wayfarer in Melbourne; Rong Rong; Lynette Wallworth documentary; Lucas Abela; Furas dels Baus workshop

sep 4, 2009

articles/reviews


beautiful kate
beautiful kate
rachel ward

Confronting taboo territory and subdued direction breaks new ground

cedar boys
cedar boys
serhat caradee

A finely crafted account of Lebanese-Australian life in Western Sydney

features


portal update
portal update
video art

Reviews of a selection of sites dedicated to video art and moving image

studio


jaki middleton & david lawrey
jaki middleton & david lawrey
you're not thinking fourth dimensionally

Temporal and dimensional illusion at the MCA PLUS video excerpt

aug 21, 2009

articles/reviews


chronology arts
chronology arts
gradations of light

New music, light, responsive video art and ideas

leavesley, costi & stringraphy
leavesley, costi & stringraphy
a nest of cinnamon

Japanese-Australian collaboration using live and pre-recorded multimedia

archive highlights


keith armstrong
keith armstrong
media artist

Articles, reviews and interviews

features


induce workshop
induce workshop
on edge, cairns

Visual arts and performance reviews

studio


branch nebula
branch nebula
sweat

Review & interview PLUS video excerpt

jul 17, 2009

archive highlights


liquid architecture
liquid architecture
sound arts festival

Articles & reviews from the archive

studio


roger mills
roger mills
idea of south

A radiophonic transmission; review & artist statement

earbash


erdem helvacioglu
erdem helvacioglu
wounded breath 

Reverberant processing of electroacoustic compositions

rice corpse
rice corpse
mrs rice

Australian-chinese collaboration

jul 3, 2009

articles/reviews


ernie althoff
ernie althoff
the middle eight

Sculpture as music

nighttime: petty theft
nighttime: petty theft
an evening of short works

Contentious cut and paste performances

archive highlights


rosie dennis
rosie dennis
performance artist

Reviews, articles & interviews from the archive PLUS a video excerpt

studio


penelope cain
penelope cain
infestation

Review & interview

in the loop


RealTime news and advance word
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