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Dec-Jan 2016

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festivals

PERTH INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL
A festival that feels, senses and thinks
Keith Gallasch: Interview, Wendy Martin

PERTH INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL
The art of empathy
Keith Gallasch: Interview, Clare Patey, Perth Festival

OZASIA FESTIVAL
A rigorous engagement with Asia
Ben Brooker: Performance

OZASIA FESTIVAL
Cultural play & interplay
Chris Reid: Music

OZASIA FESTIVAL
Fragility, resilience, work & home
Ben Brooker: Interview, Melati Suryodarmo

OZASIA FESTIVAL
Renewal through reflection
Chris Reid: Visual Arts

OZASIA FESTIVAL
The past drives dance into the future
Jane Howard: Dance

MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL
The unexpectedly ecstatic
John Bailey: The Bacchae; YOUARENOWHERE

LIVEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ART
A wild flowering of new works
Keith Gallasch: Overview

LIVEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ART
Bending a brass band
Felicity Clark: Lauren Brincat & Bree van Reyk, No Performance Today

LIVEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ART
Canny Robotics
Stephen Jones: Wade Marynowsky, Robot Opera

LIVEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ART
For highbrow perusal
Fiona McGregor: Eisa Jocson, Death Of The Pole Dancer; Macho Dancer

LIVEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ART
Fun durational art
Lauren Carroll Harris: zin, Each Other

LIVEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ART
Ice, art & urgency
Fiona McGregor: Latai Taumoepeau, Repatriate I & II

LIVEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ART
Let’s do hysteria
Lauren Carrol Harris: Hissy Fit, I Might Blow Up Someday

LIVEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ART
Obsession, creation & re-invention
Cleo Mees: Muscle Mouth

LIVEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ART
Primal myth magic
Jodie McNeilly: Victoria Hunt, Tangi Wai - The Cry Of Water

LIVEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ART
When life turns surreal
Jodie McNeilly: Vicki Van Hout, Les Festivités Lubrifier

LIVEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ART
With an ear to the wall
Felicity Clark: Bree van Reyk, Wall Of Sound

ADELAIDE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS
Everything depends on dramaturgy
Ben Brooker: Interview, Romeo Castellucci, Go Down, Moses

ADELAIDE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS
Of kings, carnations & psyches in crisis
Keith Gallasch

Guide to a festival of great gifts
Keith Gallasch: Interview, Lieven Bertels, Sydney Festival

New connections, strange directions
Ben Brooker: PADA, Near and Far



special features

REGIONAL
A common magic
Jason Richardson: The Cad Factory, On Common Ground

REGIONAL
Place, displacement & disposition
Zsuzsanna Soboslay: Siteworks 2015

CARRIAGEWORKS 2016 PROGRAM
An integrated & evolutionary vision
Keith Gallasch: Interview, Lisa Havilah

performance

All a part of something
Lauren Carroll Harris: BYDS, The Way

Boldly narrowing the gap
Kathryn Kelly: Brisbane Festival

Cultural climate change
Malcolm Whittaker: Crack Theatre Festival

Insanity, inside & out
Keith Gallasch: STC, King Lear; Sydney Chamber Opera/Ensemble Offspring, An Index Of Metals

Occupy the street
Urszula Dawkins: Skye Gellmann, Bodies Over Bitumen

Performance & the restoration of the real
Andrew Fuhrmann: Richard Murphet, Quick Death/Slow Love

Reality’s other perspectives
Stephen Carleton: Brisbane Festival

Refugee awareness: a way through?
Caroline Wake: A Sri Lankan Tamil Asylum Seeker’s Story As Performed By Australian Actors Under The Guidance Of A Sinhalese Director

The perils of emptiness overcome
Felicity Clark: Theatre Nohgaku, Oppenheimer

Varieties of creative intimacy
Nerida Dickinson: Proximity Festival 2015

What’s in a name?
Virginia Baxter: Desdemona, Sydney Festival



dance

Ode To Modernism
Philipa Rothfield: Jude Walton, Lehte II

Rewind forward
Jodie McNeilly: Julie-Anne Long & Glenn Thompson, 4’33’’ Into The Past

Walking, animal dances & becoming
Martin Del Amo: Interview, Martin Nachbar, Choreographer



visual arts

Feminist manifestos converse
Ilana Cohn: Firstdraft, Haunting

Tracing counterpoint
Naomi Riddle: UNSW Galleries, People Like Us

sound/music

PROFILER 13, 11 NOVEMBER 2015
The force inhabits you
Lauren Carroll Harris: Review, Ryoji Ikeda, Superposition

A tribute to transcendence
Matthew Lorenzon: Arcko Symphonic Ensemble, Nigel Butterley, From Sorrowing Earth

Eclectic fusion
Angus McPherson: Jochen Gutsch & The Hinterlandt Ensemble

Hearing through capital’s illusions
Tiarney Miekus: Liquid Architecture, Capitalist Surrealism

Sonica’s good-looking sounds
Gail Priest: Cryptic’s Sonica, Glasgow

Talents, minds & cultures united
Alex Turley: Tura New Music, Reflection Tour



+onscreen
film & screen culture

ON THE DOX
Limited critique, internal contradictions
Dan Edwards: Avi Lewis & Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything



+onscreen media arts

PROFILER 13, 11 NOVEMBER 2015
Experimental art—having to speak for itself
Darren Jorgensen: Report, National Experimental Art Forum

AUDIOVISION 20
Unsound vision
Philip Brophy: David Bowie Is