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PIAF 2017: A very special place

Keith Gallasch: interview, Wendy Martin, Perth International Arts Festival

14 December 2016

In light of darkness

Laetitia Wilson: Light Geist

14 December 2016

The joy of pulsing complexity

Greg Hooper: Singular Vectors: A Chris Dench portrait concert

14 December 2016

Making scents of Sydney

Gail Priest: interview, Cat Jones, Scent of Sydney

14 December 2016

DVD: Stephen Page, Spear

Bangarra Artistic Director Stephen Page's striking debut feature film centres on tensions felt by a young man caught between an ancient, still vibrant Indigenous culture and a competing, feverish modernity played out across Sydney streets and landscapes. The strong core cast features Hunter Page-Lochard as the teenage boy, Aaron Pedersen as Suicide Man, a raging […]

14 December 2016

DVD: Weiner

Much more than an entertainment about a compulsive sexter, Weiner, directed by Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg, examines the the 2013 New York City mayoral campaign of disgraced congressman Anthony Weiner, two years after his resignation from the House of Representatives. The candidate is fascinating: as one reviewer wrote, the film “captures him in the […]

14 December 2016

Love, materialism & metaphysics

Keith Gallasch: interview, John Gillies, Witkacy & Malinowski: a cinematic séance in 23 scenes

14 December 2016

Sydney Festival: A great sense of occasion

Keith Gallasch

Wesley Enoch’s first festival for the city has tremendous breadth but, at its core, in-depth engagement with the senses, Indigeneity and innovative art-making. Enoch tells Keith Gallasch about his vision, its aesthetics inseparable from its politics.

7 December 2016

ACMI Mark II: Museum of the future

Dan Edwards: interview, ACMI Director Katrina Sedgwick

7 December 2016

Reassembling the cosmos

Matthew Lorenzon: Liza Lim's opera, Tree of Codes

7 December 2016

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