Old halls, new lives

Barnaby Smith: Arts Northern Rivers, If These Halls Could Talk

OzAsia Festival visual arts: A common spirituality

Chris Reid

Chris Reid discerns in three of the festival’s visual art exhibitions a spiritual commonality among artists from China, Hong Kong and Australia with works that sensorily heighten cultural and political awareness.

For All We Know (or thought we knew): Part I

Dean Walsh

An inclusive vision of Australian women

Keith Gallasch: Karen Therese, Women of Fairfield

Something more than ourselves

Maximilian: Lee Serle, MULTIMODAL

Dance: LINK-ing and Mastering

Keith Gallasch: Interview, Michael Whaites, WAAPA

Donnie Darko, 15th Anniversary Edition DVD

Filmmaker Richard Kelly was only 25 when he directed his standout debut feature in 2001. Donnie Darko might have confounded box office audiences but has become a cult classic in the ensuing years, and deservedly so. It’s a remarkable film that effortlessly traverses the genres of high school comedy, psychological horror, science fiction and romance […]

Partial Durations Podcast: Episode 4 – Michael Bakrnčev’s Sky Jammer

RealTime Talk

Originally published on Partial Durations, a collaboration between RealTime and Matthew Lorenzon. Like all good neo-noir dystopias, the city of Michael Bakrnčev’s Sky Jammer has roots in contemporary urban life. In this episode I speak with Bakrnčev about property speculation, Macedonian folk dances, and conflicting advice in his Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers commission. Thanks […]

Slow traumas or apocalypses of choice?

Francis Russell: Inanition: A Speculation On The End of Times

BIFEM 2016’s unprecedented scale and vision

Matthew Lorenzon: festival overview

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.

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.”

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…”