Greg Hooper enjoys the ambience of industry in this site-specific collaborative concert.

Shane Eastwood speculates on possible altered states of being offered by this upcoming exhibition from Hobart's Museum of Old and New Art

Gail Priest talks with curator Andrew Batt-Rawden about this mini-festival of new music

When performance art works from the past are re-enacted by others, what can that mean? When live art creates intimate and visceral encounters, what precisely is the art involved? A taster of what's coming in RT115.

Frequently messages land in our inboxes that get us calculating our frequent flyer points. This week a cluster of perverse pleasures—Bill Viola, Bouchra Ouizguen, Belarus Free Theatre, and Mackenzie Wark—lures us to London.

Version 1.0, Major Minor Party; Moduluxxx; NMN: Altman & Brooks; 16th Spanish Film Festival; Melbourne International Animation Festival; Elvis Richardson, Slide Show Land; Tony Albert, Projecting our future; Loading The Silence, Linda Kouvaras

Call For Proposals, Conduit Arts, Melbourne; Templeberg Residential Writing Fellowship. Still in the loop: Librettist Workshop, Chamber Made; City Of Melbourne Annual Grants; Stephen Cummins Bequest Residencies, Performance Space; Beijing Residency, 4a Centre For Contemporary Asian Art; Workshops; Channels Video Art Festival

Banners: 1- (striped) Ryoji Ikeda, data.tron [8k enhanced version], audiovisual installation, 2008-09, © Ryoji Ikeda, photo by Liz Hingley; 2 (writing) - Living Room Opera, Zierle & Carter, Chamber Made Opera, IBT13, photo Oliver Rudkin; 3 - (dancer) Lauren Langlois, 247 Days, Chunky Move , photo Jeff Busby; 4 - (hands/bones) Sarah-Jane Norman, Bone Library, part of Unsettling Suite, photo Heidrun Löhr

Alex Lazaridis Ferguson is intrigued by the melding of fact, fiction, biography and myth in a selection of shows in this year's festival including She She Pop's Testament, Boca del Lupo's Photog and Tim Crouch's I, Malvolio.

Greg Hooper experiences time-shifts and curious landscapes in two video works by this pioneer Chinese video artist

Australia's largest photography festival infiltrates Sydney galleries May-June. Previewed exhibitions include: Jimmy Pozarik & Tom Goldner, Global Gallery; Barbara McGrady, Redfern Community Centre; Anton Kuster, The Muse, TAFE Sydney Institute; Dean Tirkot, MOP Gallery; Kourtney Roy, Customs House; Cordelia Beresford, Gaffa Gallery

La Boite Indie Season 1; Lineage, Form Dance Projects; Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts 2013, AGNSW; Everyday Rebellions, Gertrude Contemporary; Suncorp Twenties, Sydney Theatre Company; Joachim Koester & Frances Stark, Ian Potter Museum of Art; Stories Then & Now, Performance 4a & Carriageworks; Goodbye Jamie Boyd, Buzz Dance & Monkey Baa

Sensing Sydney, Carbon Arts, City of Sydney, Dramaturgy Internships 2013, Playwriting Australia, Librettist Workshop, Chamber Made, City of Melbourne Annual Grants.

Dan Edwards interviews Sari Braithwaite about the upcoming program of documentaries, narrative features and shorts.

Gail Priest strolls through a Jurassic rainforest infiltrated with art.

"Second only to Berlin for easy living and arts stimulation, Brussels is a mecca for performing arts in particular. The healthy competition between the Flemish and Wallonian communities that share the capital leads to a disproportionate number of arts institutions, festivals and events."

Moving Image I, Critical Path; Direct Democracy, MUMA; Bloom — Space, AEAF; Undone, Arts House; Paul Dresher, Double Duo; Film Real – Black Screen, NFSA & Footscray Arts Centre; Peter Dailey, Apparition: The Syndicate Ii, Fremantle Arts Centre; Networked Art Forms & Tactical Magick Faerie Circuits, CAST; May Music, Conduit Arts Initiative; Diffuse, UTS

Beijing Residency, 4a Centre For Contemporary Asian Art; Stephen Cummins Bequest Residencies, Performance Space; ISEA13 Workshops, Critical Path; workshops, Networked Art Forms & Tactical Magick Faerie Circuits, CAST; emerging producers, Backbone 2High Festival 2013; Call for scores Campbelltown City Council

Thematic selections of articles and reviews from our enormous back catalogue with commentary including Art & asylum: politics, ethics, aesthetics; Australian Indigenous film; Contemporary Chinese cinema; and Art & disability: new geographies of the body

Jake Wilson on the ambiguities of advertising and politics in this film about Chile's 1988 referendum on democracy

Chris Reid is more than impressed by the breadth and ingenuity of composer/violinist Jon Rose revealed in this 3CD box set released in celebration of the artist's 60th birthday. We also have 2 copies of Rosin to giveaway!

Opal Vapour, Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal, Mobile States; robots at Artspace; Composition to Movement Festival, CPL/UNSW; Eve & Eve, Rebecca Agnew, 24HR Art; R&J, Expressions Dance Company; Living in the Ruins of the 21st Century, UTS Gallery; Friday Nights, Metro Arts; Hatched & Digital Now, PICA; Natalie Abbott, Physical Fractals, PACT; No Child, Nilaja Sun, Theatre Works; Shadowlife, Bendigo Art Gallery; Uta Uber Kool Ja, Army Of Love, Judith Wright Centre

Arts House Season 1, 2014; Revelation Perth International Film Festival; Exploring Modular Synthesis Workshop, Wired Lab; The 2013 Hive Production Fund; Arstpace Curatorial Fellowship; Channels Video Art Festival; Proximity Festival; Heartlands Refugee Art Prize; HIDDEN: Rookwood Cemetery Sculpture Walk

Sophia Kouyoumdjian explores the newest art conglomerate—Cementa, in Kandos, regional NSW—featuring site-specific installations from over 60 artists

A four-storey windmill, brainchild of Joey Ruigrok van der Werven and Paul Gazzola, will enhance both the physical and cultural landscapes of the Rocks Precinct, Sydney

Metropolis New Music Festival; Kaldor Art Projects #27: 13 Rooms; Trio A/Dance is hard to see, Sara Wookey; C3West Ultimate Vision, Monuments to Us, Lara Thoms & Workout, MCA; Wang Gongxin, MAAP Space; The Big Picture, Stills Gallery; Big Game Hunting, Fiona Hall, Heide; The Agony, the ecstasy and i, The Blue Room; Oi You!, Urban Art Festival; The Past is a Foreign Country, Paper Cut Collective & Tantrum

Exist Conference; Next Wave 2014; Cultivate dance theatre lab, Force Majeure; ABR Voiceless Fellowship; Nka Foundation, artist residency Ghana; Leisa Shelton workshop, JWC

Chris Reid admires this cd and book exploring the relationship between music and poetry

March 12-24 RealTime is in residence at Melbourne's Dance Massive. Reviews of works by Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin Inc, Marrugeku, Antony Hamilton, Lee Serle, Stephanie Lake, Larrisa McGowan, Matthew Day, Natalie Abbott, Tim Darbyshire, Jo Lloyd, Russell Dumas, Sandra Parker, Ashley Dyer and more…

video interviews from Dance Massive 2013 including Anouk van Dijk, Antony Hamilton, Dalisa Pigram, Stephanie Lake, Lee Serle & Tim Darbyshire plus 2011 interviews with Gideon Obarzanek, Ros Crisp, Luke George, Trevor Patrick and more

A joint blog project between Matthew Lorenzon and RealTime for news, reviews and discussion of New Music. Currently covering Metropolis New Music Melbourne: Thomas Adès, Matthew Herbert, Mira Calix, Ensemble Offspsing, Syzygy, Speak Percusions + more

Dan Bigna is unmoored in a maelstrom of spontaneous music making at Canberra's free improv and experimental music festival, SoundOut

Matthew Lorenzon is not convinced by the "forceful repetition of platitudes" and the fugue of affairs in this film about a New York string quartet

Some complementary reading from Resonate Magazine's Insight series, published by the Australian Music Centre including Cat Hope, Jon Rose, Peter Knight and Clocked Out

I should have drunk more champagne; Onside & 6 Women Dance; MKA Group Show; Waterwheel World Water Day Symposium; Grant Stevens; Drawn from Sound; Melbourne Queer Flm Festival; Message Sticks; Speak Percussion, MaerzMusik; ANAM Australian Voices; The Bell Ringer’s Ball; Made in China, Australia

Forever Now & Adhocracy residencies, Vitalstatistix; ISEA conference registrations, Sydney; Gasworks Circus Showdown; NSW Creative Industries Action Plan; upcoming Australia Council deadlines

Sarah-Jane Norman shows us around her installation and discusses the performances that make up Unsettling Suite, part of the Matters of Life and Death season at Performance Space, Sydney

Keith Gallasch with more Sydney Festival fare: Peter Pan, Belvoir; School Dance, Windmill & STC; It's Dark Outside, Perth Theatre Company; Masi, The Conch Theatre; The moment I saw you I knew I could love you, Curious UK; The Rape of Lucrece, The Royal Shakespeare Company; The Rite of Spring, Raimund Hoghe; Ligeti Morphed, Ensemble Offspring; Murder, Erth Pysical and Visual Theatre

Gail Priest talks with Ten Days festival director Jo Duffy about her plans to intensify the festival experience and continue the creation of lasting legacies for culture and infrastructure across the state

"Writing makes you think. It thinks for you."

"I write about art to steal my way into the middle of it."

Flesh & Bone, KAGE; Jaap Blonk Australian tour; ArtMonth, Sydney; Inaudible Visions, Oscillating Silences, Isabelle Delmotte, Ballina; WOW Film Festival, WIFT plus Seen and Heard, Red Rattler; Le_temps: explorations in phenology, UTS Dab Lab; Dream Telepathy, Remote Space; Imagining the Capital: Canberra on Film and Cinema’s Golden Summer, NFSA; Old Tote celebrations, NIDA

Call for proposals: Underbelly, Sydney; Sydney Fringe; SITUATE art in festivals, national; Dimanche Rouge, Tallinn, Estonia; Artspace residencies, Sydney & Montreal; The Cube, QUT, Digital Writing Residency; upcoming Australia Council deadlines

Jake Wilson explores the three final additions to Koji Wakamatsu's filmography screened at the 2012 Busan Film Festival in Korea, just a few weeks before the filmmaker's untimely death

Director Chris Drummond discusses Brink's collaboration with the English Touring Theatre to create Thursday, a theatre piece inspired by London bombing survivor Gill Hicks, premiering at the Adelaide Festival

Kate Carr, new writer to RealTime, is impressed by the idiosyncratic selection of spontaneous sounds over several nights of the 2013 NOW now festival

Keith Gallasch talks with writer/performer Matthew Whittet about flights of fantasy and feats of invisibility in School Dance created by Windmill Theatre (directed by Rosemary Myers) and presented as part of the Sydney Festival by Sydney Theatre Company

"I cringe at using “cultural” as Scotland is so caught up in its own distinctiveness from England and its proud history (and there’s lots to be proud of) that everything can become a little tartan-tinted. But Glasgow bucks that trend by looking outward and is genuinely awash with contemporary, vivid and living culture."

Performance Space ups the ante with this season of works about the big questions, featuring Reckless Sleepers' The Last Supper, Brian Lucas' Performance Anxiety, Sarah-Jane Norman's epic Unsettling Suite, a dare-devil Night-Time, a death-fueled Clubhouse and more…

Yellamundie, Carriageworks; National Play Festival, Perth; AWF Playwriting Awards announced; Harvest, PACT Centre for Emerging Artistst; Until Then, Then, The Public Studio; The Subjects, ANAT; Richard Bell: Lessons on Etiquette and Manners, MUMA; Tools, Kawita Vatanajyankur, Beam Contemporary; seminal German sounds: Einstuerzende Neubauten & Pole tours

Urban Theatre Projects, _SPACE residencies, Bankstown; R E Ross Trust Playwrights’ Script Development Award, VIC; Studios & exhibitions Gaffa Gallery, Sydney; Police Lane Gallery, Ballarat; Physical Theatre Lab, IUTGE, Austria

RealTime's coverage of the NOW Now festival from 2002 to the present

Keith Gallasch talks with writer/performer Matthew Whittet about flights of fantasy and feats of invisibility in School Dance created by Windmill Theatre (directed by Rosemary Myers) and presented as part of the Sydney Festival by Sydney Theatre Company

Gail Priest revels in John Cage's liberating philosophies in this series of concerts presented by the Sydney Opera House featuring New York's Bang on a Can All-Stars, including an all-in Musicircus

Keith Gallasch contemplates lineage and legacy evidenced in the final concert in this centenary series, Permission Granted, performed by Bang on Can All-Stars with Ensemble Offspring

Philip Brophy is haunted by the hypnagogic in Peter Strickland's film Berberian Sound Studio recently screened at ACMI

Cleo Mees entres a tear in the fabric of invisibility with Julie-Anne Long's suburban dance poem, presented by Performance Space as part of Sexes

Victoria Carless admires the ambition of and big dreams behind The Colony, the premier work of this new Cairns-based performance company

"I cringe at using “cultural” as Scotland is so caught up in its own distinctiveness from England and its proud history (and there’s lots to be proud of) that everything can become a little tartan-tinted. But Glasgow bucks that trend by looking outward and is genuinely awash with contemporary, vivid and living culture."

Taking place in brisk Bristol UK, IBT13 offers many tantalising live art diversions including fake moons, strolls through the woods, intimate conversations and audience led revolutions.

Cementa, Kandos, NSW; The Transmuted Signal, Frequency Oz radio/net broadcast; Wim Vandekeybus/Ultima Vez' What The Body Does Not Remember, Adelaide Festival; SoundOut, Canberra; Blak Nite Cinema, ACMI; Glenorchy Arts and Sculpture Park (GASP), Tasmania; Colour Box Digital Media Exhibition, Footscray; Sonic Acts: The Dark Universe, Amsterdam

Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship; Brisbane Festival, independent performance works; International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2013, Perth; Bayside City Council Artists-in-Residence; Chippendale Creative Precinct New World Art Prize; Western Australia Contemporary Dance Initiative, Australia Council; Horror Filmmaking Bootcamp, Hobart; Borough of Queenscliffe's 150th Anniversary Art Awards

Lee Wilson and Matt Prest discuss the making of Whelping Box, recently presented by Performance Space (with co-creators Mirabelle Wouters and Clare Britton).

Lee Wilson and Mirabelle Wouters discuss their upcoming project, Concrete & Bone Sessions part of Sydney Festival 2013

A brief survey of Branch Nebula's work over the last ten years, via their coverage in RealTime with introduction by Keith Gallasch

Chris Reid revels in the performative play and complexity of Slovakian composer Daniel Matej, special guest of the Soundstream Festival, Adelaide

Courtesy of the Seymour Centre Reginald Season we have 3 double passes to give away to The Share by Adelaide company five.point.one.

A digest of Resonate Magazine's features highlighting female composers and musicians working across a range of musical forms and genres

Gail Priest conducts an SMS text interview with Brian Fuata about his slippery acts of writing and performance

Tura New Music celebrates its 25th Birthday in style, with four concerts, a party bash and swanky soiree.

The OtherFilm festival takes on Brisbane, Melbourne, Meredith Music Festival and Adelaide with its 2012 iteration which goes beyond "celluloid" to explore "other" media

Encoded, Stalker, Sydney; On Loop, Ensemble Offspring, Sydney; International Space Time Concerto Competition, Newcastle; Body Fluid—The Seven Cycles, John A Douglas, Chalkhorse, Sydney; 241 years, Morrish, Osborne, Jeynes, Rohrig, Dancehouse, Melbourne, Sidetrack, Sydney; The Conversation, Jon Mark Oldmeadow, Claudio Tocco, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne; UpRaw online art & exhibition, Sydney

Tanja Liedtke Fellowship; Aphids Indigenous Mentoring Program; Vivid Light expressions of interest; Creative Partnerships with Asia, Australia Council

Keith Gallasch talks with Robyn Archer, Creative Director of the Centenary of Canberra 2013 about the year long celebrations.

Chris Reid is impressed by the many ways east meets west, contemporary meets classical at the Adelaide Festival Centre's annual OzAsia festival

Varia Karipoff is mesmerisd by the complex web spun by Gareth Hart in this solo dance theatre work as part of the Melbourne Fringe

"…As a Sydney-sider in Auckland things can seem alarmingly familiar…a parallel universe where just a few small details have been altered…"

More realtime tv video interviews including Ensemble Offspring, Stu Buchanan, Joel Stern, Garry Stewart, Kate Champion, Lara Thoms, Jon Rose, Gideon Obarzanek, Cat Hope, Kusum Normoyle, Marina Rosenfeld, Eugene Ughetti, Luke George, Rosalind Crisp & more...

We don't need a map, brings the desert experience of the Martu people to the Fremantle Arts Centre with works on paper, media-art collaborations, cultural workshops and an actual chunk of the Pilbara

Paris-based experimental performance festival Dimanche Rouge teams up with Exist, Tape Projects and Ptarmigan to present an evening of streamed performance and live art

Lady Electronica, Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane; Cloudy Sensoria, Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne; Hail, Amiel Courtin-Wilson, national release & exhibition, Melbourne; Kusum Normoyle, Accord with Air: Tjentiste (2011-2012), Peloton, Sydney; Liverpool Biennale 2012: Uninvited Guest, FACT, UK; Random International’s Rain Room, Barbican

A collection of articles on Indigenous filmmaking published in RT since 2002: includes feature films, shorts, festivals, issues, interviews and the RT/AFC publication Dreaming in Motion

Keith Gallasch talks with festival director Philip Rolfe about the tasty South Asian banquet of performance, dance, music and food about to be served up in Sydney's west

Keith Gallasch celebrates Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker's visionary En Atendant and Cesena at Carriageworks

Astrid Francis is disturbed and compelled by this 21st century post-Freudian ‘prequel’ devised by Matthew Lutton, Tom Wright and Zoë Atkinson

Rishin Singh offers an insider account of what happens when you take a bunch of city improvisors to the outback

"…Santiago currently sits alongside Sao Paulo as one of the two world capitals of graffiti. Street art has played an important role and reflects the history of political and social events in the city…1000s of examples (and I am not kidding) located on every street corner. "

Sydney Opera House celebrates the centenary of John Cage's birth with a mini-festival featuring New York ensemble Bang on a Can All-Stars and Sydney's Ensemble Offspring

PauseFest returns to Melbourne in November celebrating the future with industry panels, workshops and a jam-packed screening program

Deanne Butterworth, Twinships, West Space, Melbourne; Mish Grigor, Winner, Firstdraft, Sydney; Gaelle Mellis, Take Up Thy Bed and Walk, Vitalstatistix, Adelaide; First Amongst Equals (Part II) curator Leigh Robb, PICA, Perth; Swedish for Argument, curator Holly Williams, UTS Gallery, Sydney

Spaced: art out of place, IASKA, expressions of interest; In-Habit and Seedpod, Punctum, expressions of interest; ISEA 2013, call for conference participation; Melbourne Filmmaking Summer School, University of Melbourne; Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards nominations

Ensemble Offspring co-directors discuss the thinking behind their eclectic programming of contemporary classical and new music, the ensemble's longevity and aims for audience development

Chris Reid surveys the activities of Adelaide-based composer/pianist/educator Stephen Whittington including his recent John Cage Day celebrations at Elder Hall

Keith Gallasch shares his hurried notes from the inspiring after show talk with Rosas choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker discussing En Atendant & Cesna at Carriageworks, part of the Biennale of Sydney

Free downloadable sounds to tickle your cilia from artists recently featured in RT Ensemble Offspring - Professor Bad Trip Lesson 3 Thembi Soddell - Artefact Performance (excerpt) Lawrence English - Coprinus Comatus Eugene Carchesio - Circle Music 4

…Munich is a babe in the most non-gendered sense of the word (purely because I don’t know the gender of Munich yet). He/She is an elegant androgynous creature, not afraid of its past, its future or the over-use of primary colours when dressing…

Crack Theatre Festival, TINA, Newcastle; South Australian Film Corporation 40 year anniversary celebrations; Synaesthesia, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania; The Other Film Festival, Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall; MCA: Primavera 2012 & Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro, Sydney; Marco Fusinato, The Color of the Sky Has Melted, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

107 Projects, Redfern, Sydney; The Arts Platform, Surry Hills, Sydney; Next Wave, Kickstart national applications; New Music Network Mini Series, national applications

NZ correspondent Sally Ann McIntyre probes the implications of sound in this exhibition curated by Caleb Kelly and Aaron Kreisler featuring work by Australian and New Zealand artists

Jana Perkovic is mesmerised by this live film/theatre adaptation of the Strindberg classic, currently in repertoire at Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin

Gail Priest looks at digtital broadcasts and distribution of live performance, with reference to the recent iTunes release of Wayne McGregor's 2008 work Entity

Katerina Sakkas considers the lightness of being in this Australian take on the rom-com, hitting cinemas in October

micro-guides for arts adventurers to the world’s most intriguing cities including Detroit, Beijing, Yogyakarta, Wroclaw, Beirut, Shanghai, Berlin, Hong Kong, Barcelona, New York, Sarajevo, Turku

This year's annual showcase of performance, visual art and film from the Asian region graces Adelaide in September, this time with an Indian flavour

Experimenta's 5th biennial of media art is about to launch with an enticing range of commissions and contributions from Australian and international artists

TarraWarra Biennial, Yarra Valley, Victoria; UNDER_SCORED, Brisbane; iD Digital Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; 13 Voids, Mark Themann, AEAF, Adelaide; Fearless, Milk Crate Theatre, Carriageworks, Sydney; CCP Declares: On the nature of things, CCP, Melbourne OPPORTUNITIES: The Right Foot Project, Dirty Feet

In association with the 18th Biennale of Sydney: all our relations, Carriageworks is presenting the Australian premiere of two new works by renowned Belgian contemporary dance ensemble, Rosas, directed by the legendary choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. We have 4 double passes to Rosas' Cesena, September 15.

Dan MacKinlay is anxiously suspended in time amongst the detritus of art in Serial Space's inaugural celebration of time-based practices

New RT writer Sarah-Mace Dennis is shadowed by memory and media as she experiences this historical video art overview

Zsuzsanna Soboslay queries states of consciousness in this media-heightened dance work exploring hypnogogia by emerging choreographer Adelina Larsson

Keith Gallasch selects some highlights from this leading film school's annual screening festival

Virginia Baxter walks us through some radical explorations in this upcoming festival of hybrid, underground and alternative performance

Sydney Opera House's Spring Dance festival of international and local dance curated by Rafael Bonachela

Jon Rose and collaborators takes the Sound Circus to the corner country (borderlands of NSW, QLD & SA)

MAAP Space, Brisbane; ARTHERE, Sydney: Untitled (colloquial: Atrocity Exhibitions), Jack Sargeant & Linsey Gosper, ALASKA, Sydney; Arcade Assembly, Shopfront, Sydney; Micromachina Aqua, Scott Bain, South Australian Maritime Museum, Adelaide OPPORTUNITIES: World of Women (WOW) Film Festival, call for entries; Backbone's 2high Festival, Brisbane, call for entries; Intensive Training Program, dance, ADT, Adelaide; EU Culture Program applications

Astrid Francis is swept away by the stage magic of It's Dark Outside created by the team behind The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer

Chris Reid ponders infinity and entropy in SA artist Riley O'Keeffe's recent installation which included a performance of Steve Reich's Pendulum Music

Regular RealTime contributor Dan Edwards has curated the program Street Level Visions: Chinese Independent Docos for MIFF including several films previously covered in RealTime

…Like many before me, I fell in love with danger, the wildness and the satisfaction of a rust belt being reclaimed by an urban farming movement and all the possibilities that a post apocalyptic playground could ignite…

Gail Priest is impressed by the double album documenting performances by Alan Lamb, David Burraston, Garry Bradbury, Oren Ambarchi and Robin Fox exploring the potentials of the long wires at the WIRED Lab in rural NSW

Free downloadable sounds to tickle your cilia from Ida Duelund Hansen, Chamber Made Opera; Kraig Grady, Clocks & Clouds; David Burraston, The WIRED Lab

Time Machine, Serial Space, Sydney; Everywhere But Here, Blindside, Melbourne; On Edge, Cairns; What's Coming - A Future's Festival, Alexandra Harrison, Dancehouse, Melbourne

National Screen Dance Initiative, Carriageworks; Mobile States Cluster, 2012, national tour; Parallel Universes, Monash University & QUT, The Block, Brisbane; Inject, Herman Kolgen, Bristol, UK Opportunities: Incubator residencies, Vitalstatistix, Adelaide; Queer performance residencies, Performance Space, Sydney; Australia Council Crowdfunding seminars, national

To complement Mike Walsh's review of the Hong Kong Film Festival we've updated the this archive highlight which includes an introduction by Dan Edwards

Stuart Buchanan from New Weird Australia talks with Gail Priest about three years dedicated to promoting eclectic Australian music and what's in store in the future

Mini-doco about Psycho Subtropics, a gathering of Brisbane-based artists and musicians at Serial Space, Sydney, including interviews with co-curator Joel Stern and artist Michael Candy

…Throw a stick in Yogyakarta and chances are you’ll hit an artist…The relaxed pace of Yogya, the city’s reputation as the cultural heart of Java, the fact that it’s home to one of the country’s largest art schools…make it the perfect place to immerse yourself in art…

… Beijing’s real pleasures lie behind the façade of its overbearing government buildings and public monuments, tucked away in the narrow alleys (hutong) of the old city and in hard to find corners. Here a rich culture plays out beneath the city’s surface, trying its best to avoid the watchful eye of the authorities…

safARI, the unofficial fringe of the Sydney Biennale; The Reginald, Seymour Centre's 2012 program, Sydney; Tura New Music and ACO's The Reef, national tour. Opportunities: Ian Potter Foundation & ACMI Moving Image Commission; QUT The Block's Digital Associates Program; plus congratulations to Jason Sweeney on his Ted City2.0 win.

To co-incide with LA’s 13th year, we've gathered together all reviews of the festival since 2002—a comprehensive record of this leading music event.

Jane Howard is treated to a day's worth of Next Wave fare including Joseph L. Griffiths' Shelters, Laura Delaney & Danae Valenza's Hull, Natalie Abbott's Physical Fractals and Aimee Smith's Wintering

Scott Wark is tranported by five time & space warping installations curated by Marcel Cooper and Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris

Jane Howard on the various levels of confrontation and interaction in Liesel Zink's fifteen, Atlanta Eke's Monster Body, Dan Koop et al's The Stream/ The Boat/ The Shore/ The Bridge and Bridget Balodis, Mark Pritchard's Shotgun Wedding

Matthew Lorenzon

Oliver Downes

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Gail Priest

Oliver Downes

Keith Gallasch

Felicity Clark

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Video interview with Australian Dance Theatre's Artistic Director Garry Stewart and Keith Gallasch

…Its city slogan is "the meeting place" and in my time here I have come across many artists from Europe and beyond who are attracted to the rich strand of theatre found here...

…Soaring above, gleaming neon and LED emblazoned skyscrapers punctuate an ever-evolving futuristic city skyline…the closest visual and sensorial experience you’ll find to Blade Runner…

…Not only is it indisputably uncool to have money here, the whole city has been structured for the needs of the unemployed.

…When I heard music I loved music, when I saw film I loved film, when I saw painting I loved painting…

A collection of RealTime's coverage of Dance on Screen with an introduction by Erin Brannigan

Mike Walsh is bemused by the shift in the Chinese film industry towards commercialism, evidenced by a rash of rom coms screened at this year's festival

Christen Cornell talks with Chinese artist He Xiangyu about his experiments with this most mythologised of beverages

Matthew Lorenzon's quick guide to the concerto form which is set to be reinvograted by Richard Vella and the University of Newcastle's innovative competition for Australian and international composers

Gail Priest is drawn in by the delicate sonorities of this CD documenting 15-years of collaboration between two leading sound artists

…Its city slogan is "the meeting place" and in my time here I have come across many artists from Europe and beyond who are attracted to the rich strand of theatre found here...

May 26-June 2 offers a week of celebrations and reconciliations with the theatre work Bindjareb Pinjarra, Boomalli's exhibition Winds of Change, ATYP's work-in-progress, Katherine, plus talks, music and more

PACT's annual live art festival will return to the streets of Erskineville May 31-June 9 with performances including Bron Batten's Sweet Child of Mine, Alice Williams' Impossible Plays plus a weekend of installations and incursions

James Cook University's Screengrab award open for entries; NAVA & Crawl Inc's ARIna.org online resource; AFTRS Open & FORM Dance Projects, Dance Film Masterclass with Dr Richard James Allen; YPAA National Symposium, Speaking in Tongues, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre; Colin, Simon and I, Because We Care, The Place London; Creative Australia Fellows and Ars Electronica's Prix Ars awards

Lara Thoms talks with Gail Priest about her quest to collect everyday expertise in her live art work The Experts Project, part of Local Positioning Systems at the MCA, curated by Performance Space

Tony Reck experiences the mysteries of memory and the Collingwood Masonic Temple in Jason Maling & Joseph Giovinazzo's recent participatory performance

…Soaring above, gleaming neon and LED emblazoned skyscrapers punctuate an ever-evolving futuristic city skyline…the closest visual and sensorial experience you’ll find to Blade Runner…

…One sees evidence of the devastation of its troubled past, but all around there is renovation and reconstruction, not just physically— the city is gripped by a desire for cultural change…

Free downloadable sounds from: Jon Rose, Tromber Marina (1982) Thomas William vs Scissor Lock, Dreams of Dreams (excerpt 2012) Shoeb Ahmad, Kitten's Eyes (2012)

Human Rights Arts & Film Festival, Melbourne; The Seizure, The Hayloft Project, Melbourne; Boo Australia, Tim Welfare, Santiago, Chile; Guerilla Girls, VCA, Melbourne; A Hoax, La Boite, Brisbane; CUE FUNKTION, hellosQuare exhibition and residency, Canberra Contemporary Art Space

Auditions for Lucy Guerin Inc’s US tour of Untrained; The International Space Time Concerto Competition, University of Newcastle; Access Space Residencies, Sheffield, UK; Realise Your Dream, British Council, UK; Vagrant open gig series, New Weird Australia; 2012 Kit Denton Disfellowship

Caroline Wake surveys RealTime's coverage of art that has responded to and represented asylum seekers over the past decade.

Chris Reid analyses the shifting theatrical and emotional spaces of Bernstein's Mass, David Chew's Instructions for an Imaginary Man, the Australian Art Orchestra's Miles Davis, Prince of Darkness and the Zephyr Quartet's MICROMacro

Justine Shih Pearson is impressed by the rich archive of the artist's creative process uncovered in this documentary about the life and work of dancer/choreographer Tanja Liedtke

Jane Howard talks with director/choreographer Katrina Lazaroff about her upcoming work exploring our unconscious actions

…Not only is it indisputably uncool to have money here, the whole city has been structured for the needs of the unemployed.

…Three months. Seven million people. 7,417 legit skyscrapers. All on an island half the size of Canberra…

A preview of Performance Space's first season for 2012 at Carriageworks featuring Robyn Backen’s Whisper Pitch, Michaela Gleave's Our Frozen Moment, Victoria Hunt's Copper Promises: Hinemihi and Blood Policy/Aphid's Computer Boy

Ten years young, the Bendigo-based sound collective is having two days of birthday celebrations including Dave Brown, Warren Burt, Rosalind Hall, Justin Bull, The Runny Tadpoles and more

Wade Marynowsky's solo exhibition exploring sculpture, photography and interactive media at UTS Gallery

Sunny Drake's X, Metro Arts, Brisbane; Buru, Marrugeku, North American Tour; Tyger Tyger program, West Space, Melbourne; Moduluxxx—Modular Synthesis Mini-festival, Serial Space, Sydney. Plus opportunities: Brisbane-Singapore exchange; Artspace Studio Residencies 2013; Screen Space proposals 2013; PACT Ensemble 2012; Kathleen Mitchell Award for Young Writers

Dan Edwards surveys some of RealTime's coverage of the uniquely evolving screen culture of the People's Republic of China

Jon Rose, winner of the 2012 Don Banks Award, in conversation with musician and improviser Jim Denley

Dan MacKinlay explores the clefts and crevices of diy media art at Serial Space

Dan Edwards appreciates the power of subtlety in this recent Academy Award winning Iranian film

Gail Priest on the pleasurable challenges of two recent New Weird Australia limited edition CD releases

A run through of events at the new look MCA including Local Positioning Systems, presented with Performance Space

Upcoming activities at Brisbane's Judith Wright Centre to honour the 100th anniversary of John Cage's birth

The latest offering from this Lismore based innovative regional arts centre's Generator program

ANAT's Echology Seminars; Waterwheel's live stream of the World Water Day Symposium; He Xiangyu's The Cola Project, 4a Contemporary Asian Art; Sydney Chamber Opera's In the Penal Colony; The Art Centre Melbourne's Contact!

RealTime has double passes to give away to select Message Sticks screenings & talks at the Sydney Opera House and national screenings of Life in Movement, the documentary on Tanja Liedtke by Closer Productions & Antidote Films

Micro guides for arts adventurers including New York, Turku, Sarajevo & Bacelona

Over ten years of coverage of Vanessa Tomlinson & Erik Griswold's Clocked Out new music ensemble

Perth-based composer Cat Hope talks with Gail Priest about her unique approach to composing, scoring and programing new music with her new music ensemble Decibel.

Sound artist Kusum Normoyle talks with Gail Priest about her 'noiseful' interventions into public space.

In this fist batch of realtime travellers we have Nigel Helyer on Turku, Finland; Kym Vercoe on Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina; Jodi Rose on Barcelona, Spain; Michaela Coventry, New York, USA

For soundcapsule #2 we have tracks from Cat Hope, Decibel Eugene Ughetti Dale Gorfinkel Tracks can be streamed or downloaded.

Keith Gallasch is moved and shaken by emerging playwright Rita Kalnejais's fusion of dark drama and high comedy in Babyteeth, playing at Belvoir until March 18

ArtMonth Sydney including Tim Burn's retrospective at Tin Sheds Gallery; Cockatoo Calling - Adam Simmons & Erik Griswold; Melbourne Queer Film Festival; Il Pixel Rosso, and the Birds Fell from the Sky, Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall; Vic & Sarah McEwan's Cad Factory, Narrandera; Robots and Avatars, FACT Liverpool, UK; Excerpt Magazine

Keith Gallasch talks with director/choreographer Kate Champion on set about her latest work premiering in the Sydney Festival and then playing in the Adelaide Festival

Urszula Dawkins samples the exotic edible artworks created as part of the Cross(X)Species Adventure Club exploring environmental sustainability

Keith Gallasch gets the run down on Jonathan Holloway's first feast for WA audiences

Teik-Kim Pok is immersed in recent experiential performances by Sydney emerging artists

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

Sam Gillies is intrigued by the collaboration between man and machine in recent compositions for the Disklavier

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

Dan Edwards cuts through the controversy surrounding the arrest of actress Marzieh Vafamehr, to appreciate the depth and artistry of this Australian/Iranian 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

Shannon O'Neill travels to Sarah Last's WIRED Lab to experience country hospitality and astounding sounds

Regular RealTime writer Dan Edwards tell us a little about himself and why he writes about the arts

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

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.

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

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

Keith Gallasch is intrigued by the cross-cultural collaboration between choreographer Annalouise Paul, dancer Miranda Wheen and classical Indian tabla player Bobby Singh

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

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

Matthew Lorenzon is impressed by the range of approaches in this annual young composers concert

Lucky prompts Caroline Wake to reflect on how theatre works can best explore people smuggling and the plight of refugees

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.

Gail Priest on releases by Gulbenkoglu Gorfinkel; Ben Byrne; Alex White; Ivan Lysiak

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

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

Caroline Wake examines the invisibility but also the visions of asylum seekers in three recent exhibitions

Douglas Leonard is curiously vivified by the end of the world in the final offering of the La Boite Indie series

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

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

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

Gail Priest, Teik-Kim Pok and Sarah Miller explore the plenitude of performance and installation in the 2011 Underbelly Festival

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

Jana Perkovic is swept up by the moment in The Little Con's improvised one-night-only performance at Dancehouse

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.

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

James Paull speaks with Edward Scheer about the pleasures and possibilities of interactive cinema in iCinema’s Scenario, presented at the Sydney Film Festival

Somaya Langley takes in Unguided Tours: The Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts Exhibition, 2011 at the Art Gallery of NSW

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

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

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

Doug Leonard savours two independent productions at Metro Arts—Tim Dashwood and Nigel Poulton’s Dead Cargo and Eugene Gilfedder's Empire Burning

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

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

Gail Priest is startled by Alex Davies’ new work, The Black Box Sessions at UTS Gallery

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

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

At Sydney's Tiny Stadiums Festival Caroline Wake encounters Applespiel’s Executive Stress/Corporate Retreat and Nat Randall’s Cheer Up Kid

Matthew Clayfield looks at the breakdown of a couple's break-up in Sands Through the Hourglass’s performance Trapture

Chris Reid reflects on Adelaide-based Iranian artist Nasim Nasr's comments about her works Rebirth and Women in Shadow

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

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

Vivienne Gaskin speaks to Shaun Gladwell about the significant innovations realised in his Stereo Sequences commission from ACMI

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

Alana Hunt speaks with the artists and amateur gardeners behind the eco-venture Tending at Sydney College of the Arts

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

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

Chris Reid praises Decibel's deeply satisfying sonic expansion of musical possibilities on their latest CD

To start our new series Burning Issue, Dan Edwards considers the case of Ai Weiwei and the rising cultural repression in China

Jonathan Bollen looks at the role of memory in Restless Dance Theatre's Take Me There

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

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

Gail Priest is intrigued by a different approach to ecological audio in Flaming Pines' release Listen to the Weather

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 d/Lux/MediaArts' latest production, iPhone in hand, Kirsten Krauth goes 'looking for love' in Sydney's Chinatown

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

Our new series on RealTime contributors commences with Jana Perkovic and Urszula Dawkins, who tell us about themselves and why they write

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

Bonita Ely, Three Rivers, AEAF; The Right to the City, TinSheds Gallery; The Waterloo Girls; Tiny Stadiums, PACT; Yang Fudong, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

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

John Bailey interviews sculptor Reuben Margolin about his incredible kinetic scupltures and his collaboration with Chunky Move on Connected

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

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

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

Chris Reid savours the complex and luxurious sounds of Topology's latest album Difference Engine

A dissenting Keith Gallasch admires Belvoir's Wild Duck but asks can it match Ibsen's original?

Lisa Gye is enmeshed in the world of Networks (Cells & Silos), the first exhibition in the intriguingly designed new Monash University Museum of Art

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

Sitting on a street in Sydney's Chinatown, Christen Cornell enjoys video art from and about China's many metropolises at 4A Cinema Alley

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

RealTime’s writers review the Inbetween Time Festival of Live Art and Intrigue 2010 in Bristol, UK

Keith Gallasch considers the ambivalent after-effects of survival in Force Majeure's gripping Not in a Million Years

Weeks after, Alex Lazaridis Ferguson is still immersed in choreographer Christian Rizzo's enigmatic b.c. janvier, 1545, fontainbleu

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

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

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

Sophie Travers speaks with Helen Cole, the producer of the Inbetween Time Festival of Live Art and Intrigue, Bristol, 2010

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

Osunwunmi holds her breath while watching Hancock & Kelly Live's Iconographia and stops breathing altogether for Teresa Margolles' Aire

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

Timothy X Atack survives the onslaught of Kim Noble's two shows Kim Noble Will Die and You Are Not Alone

Osunwunmi contemplates the subtle complexities of Zoran Todorovic's Warmth and Sarah Jane Norman's Take This, For It Is My Body

Timothy X Atack examines the traces left by Helen Cole, Manuel Vason, Duncan Speakman & Sarah Anderson, Back to Back Theatre and Tim Etchells

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

To coincide with our coverage of Inbetween Time 2010, we look back at the highlights of Inbetween Time 2006

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

Bryoni Trezise learns from the unconventional wisdom of Chiara Guidi about children and theatre at Campbelltown Arts Centre

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

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

To coincide with Chiara Guidi's Australian visit, we survey RealTime writing on Romeo Castelluci and Societas Raffaello Sanzio

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

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

Saige Walton sees the micro and macro simultaneously in epi-thet and en masse at the Melbourne Internationals Arts Festival

Gail Priest reminisces about the glory days of Lanfranchi's Memorial Discotheque while watching Richard Baron's new documentary

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

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

Caroline Wake listens to master storyteller Trevor Jamieson relate the tale of Albert Namatjira’s life in the Big hART/Belvoir co-production Namatjira

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

Keith Gallasch explores the delirium of Hybrid Dream by Eclective Productions

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

Denied classification for the Melbourne International Film Festival, LA Zombie was later defiantly screened by the Melbourne Underground Film Festival

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

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

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

Keith Gallasch savours the sounds of cross-cultural collaboration between Brisbane-based Erik Griswold and Vanessa Tomlinson and Chinese composer Zou Xiangping

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

Doug Leonard finds himself on a bender (well, sort of) in Daniel Santangeli’s Room 328 in Brisbane

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"

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”

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

Greg Hooper enjoys the sounds of Vanessa Tomlinson and Erik Griswold on melodica, piano, percussion and a few things he couldn’t recognise

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

Victoria Carless sees inner worlds revealed in (please give: it a moment), Shamelessly Glitzy Work and 2Whyte at the On Edge festival in Cairns

Diana Klaosen admires works by Kirsty Hulm and Andrew Hustwaite & Anna Varendorff in The Un-Victorious an exhibition at the Criterion Gallery, Hobart

Tom Redwood interviews Alexander Proshkin whose The Miracle is to screen at the 2010 Russian Resurrection Film Festival

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

Peter Blamey's ears, not to mention his speakers, bend to the low frequency sounds of Linea, the first release for the Avantwhatever organisation

In an election where art has gone missing from major party campaigns, Keith Gallasch looks at the complexities of the cultural policy issue

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

Ever since Peter Garrett initiated a public discussion about cultural policy, a wishlist of strategies has been building towards a cultural policy

Our brief, informal guide to some of the best books, essays, online material and broadcasts about Australian cultural policy

Keith Gallasch especially admires Alanna Rose's The Caretaker, one of three mentored Indigenous films from Metro Screen

Zsuzsanna Soboslay finds herself immersed in the sound worlds of the Canberra International Festival of Chamber Music

James Brennan looks at three Brazilian theatre companies investigating the relationship between public and theatrical space

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

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

Gail Priest rediscovers the joy of listening to vinyl thanks to this offering from Joel Stern, Ross Manning and Alex Cuffe

Five days, eight writers and 23 reviews of fascinating dance from a Goethe-Institut workshop led by Keith Gallasch

Gail Priest engages with a range of media and installation responses to water in CMAI's Armory show

Kirsten Krauth plots the workings of nostalgia, dementia and desire in Belinda Chayko’s new feature film

Martyn Jolly comes face to face with works by Stelarc, Osang Gwon and others in Present Tense—digital works at the National Portrait Gallery

Keith Gallasch is engrossed by the revealing interplay of stage and screen in Benedict Andrews' Company B production

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

Gary Warner's vivid account of his encounter with Sugimoto's sparking Faraday Cage in the bowels of Cockatoo Island

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

Virginia Baxter is drawn into dance screen works that reconfigure bodies and spaces actual and virtual in installations scattered through a university. 

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.

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

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.

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

Suzanne Spunner admires this improvised play (now touring to Brisbane Powerhouse and The Dreaming Festival) about an 1834 century massacre of Aboriginal people.

The Japanese artist invites volunteers and passersby to perform unrehearsed at Sydney's Centre 4a for Contemporary Asian Art

Armstrong's revealing feature-length documentary is her fifth exploring the lives of three Adelaide women and now their daughters

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

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

Megan Garret-Jones looks for the heat in a staging of Moncure March's 1927 poem

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

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

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

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

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

The detailed improvisatory studies on double-bass delight Chris Reid

Director Jeff Khan talks about risks of scale and form in his innovative 2010 program

Interview with the dancer turned film writer about the evolution of his screenplay from dance to novel to film.

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

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

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

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

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

Adelaide inSPACE premiere of new multimedia work about family and bushfire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With the addition of RealTime 41-46 the RealTime archive now offers 55 complete editions!

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

Are creative practices on the internet threatened?

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

Encounter remarkable "living pictures"

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

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

A popular film that goes beyond filmic conventions

Reviews, interviews and articles from the archive

An extensive selection from South East Asia to the Middle East

A review of two seductive media arts exhibitions

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

A selection of reviews, articles and interviews

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

Review PLUS view a video excerpt

Review PLUS view Miles Van Dorssen's Sydney sound installation

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

A guide to websites that cater to sound arts enthusiasts

Review & interview

Articles and reviews from 2002-2009

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

An expansive exhibition curated with scope and sensitivity

Performance-video installation PLUS view video documentation of the exhibition

Review, interview PLUS view an excerpt from The appointment

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

Review and images

Starter survey of dance film websites PLUS view dance drama machinima

Review & interview PLUS view Into the Void

Free-to-download musical experimentations in review

Reviews, articles & interviews from the archive

Fly-on-the-wall inspired visual arts

An encounter with interactive dancing robots

review, artist statement PLUS view the animation

DX7 synthesiser and Chinese guzheng combine intriguingly

Reviews, articles & interviews from the archive

Program shortlist and interview

Multi-sensory experiences in review

Australia's up and coming artists under 35

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

Interviews and reviews from the archive

Confronting taboo territory and subdued direction breaks new ground

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

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

Temporal and dimensional illusion at the MCA PLUS video excerpt

New music, light, responsive video art and ideas

Japanese-Australian collaboration using live and pre-recorded multimedia

Visual arts and performance reviews

Review & interview PLUS video excerpt

Articles, reviews and interviews

A radiophonic transmission; review & artist statement

Reverberant processing of electroacoustic compositions

Australian-chinese collaboration

Articles & reviews from the archive

Sculpture as music

Contentious cut and paste performances

Keith Gallasch is impressed by the way in which emerging playwright Rita Kalnejais walks the line between dark drama and comedy in the recent production Babyteeth

Oliver Downes

Review & interview

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

The latest offering from Lismore's innovative contemporary performance company

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

Keith Gallasch

March 12-24 RealTime is in residence at Melbourne's Dance Massive, a two-week event hosted by Arts House, Malthouse and Dancehouse, featuring leading, innovative Australian choreographers, companies and dancers.

More realtime tv video interviews including Ensemble Offspring, Stu Buchanan, Joel Stern, Garry Stewart, Kate Champion, Lara Thoms, Jon Rose, Gideon Obarzanek, Cat Hope, Kusum Normoyle, Marina Rosenfeld, Eugene Ughetti, Luke George, Rosalind Crisp & more...