jul 26, 2010
articles/reviews
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
Zsuzsanna Soboslay finds herself immersed in the sound worlds of the Canberra International Festival of Chamber Music
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
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
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
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
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
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
Kirsten Krauth plots the workings of nostalgia, dementia and desire in Belinda Chayko’s new feature film
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
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
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
Gary Warner's vivid account of his encounter with Sugimoto's sparking Faraday Cage in the bowels of Cockatoo Island
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
Virginia Baxter is drawn into dance screen works that reconfigure bodies and spaces actual and virtual in installations scattered through a university.
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
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
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
Jonathan Marshall reports on issues arising in the fourth of the Dramaturgies seminars held in Melbourne
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
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
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
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
NSW Arts Minister Virginia Judge initiates dialogue with the small to medium performing arts sector
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
Daina Reid's Australian romantic comedy feature fails to deliver that lovin' feeling
The past will betray
Tom Hall's interactive installation marks a step forward according to Matthew O'Neill
Gethsemane - The Song Company
Zsuzsanna Soboslay is haunted by Gerard Brophy's Calcutta setting for Easter
In Repose
Mayu Kanamori and collaborators explore the meanings of death and homeland for Japanese Australians
in the loop
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
The detailed improvisatory studies on double-bass delight Chris Reid
apr 27, 2010
articles/reviews
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
Interview with the dancer turned film writer about the evolution of his screenplay from dance to novel to film.
accidents happen
Keith Gallasch praises Andrew Lancaster's new Australian film for its wise and acerbic insights into the traps of grieving
salt
An intensely beautiful and personal documentary explores the astonishing landscape of Lake Eyre
beneath hill 60
Jeremy Hartley Sims' suspenseful feature on Australian miners burrowing under the Western Front
in the loop
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
Berlin-based Australian's dynamic music theatre, Louis & Bebe
katrina lazaroff
Adelaide inSPACE premiere of new multimedia work about family and bushfire
matt prest & clare britton
immersive new performance work, Hole in the Wall, at Campbelltown Arts Centre
love me tender
Tom Holloway's adventurous new play about 21st century father-daughter relationships
carmilla hyde
A close look at Dave de Vries' award winning revenge thriller feature film
in the loop
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
realtime news and advance wordNew German film, video art, Easter shows, live art
unaustralian cinema
An argument for making Asian film more visible in Australian screen culture.
lake mungo as medium
The ancient lake figures revealingly in a horror film and a media art installation.
archive highlights
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
realtime news and advance wordRealTime-Performance Space Open Forum: In place, inner place
internet censorship
investigating new legislationAre creative practices on the internet threatened?
the endless garment
the art of machine knittingCutting-edge knitwear comes off the runway and into the gallery
sylvie blocher
what is missing?Encounter remarkable "living pictures"
gazing at the contemporary world
japanese photographyA unique selection of images that reflect key changes in society and photographic trends
tooling the art of electronics
dorkbot-syd group showExperimental electronic artwork PLUS view video documentation of interactive installation tr-IO
bran nue dae
rachel perkinsA popular film that goes beyond filmic conventions
archive highlights
lucy guerin inc.
acclaimed dance companyReviews, interviews and articles from the archive
jan 25, 2010
articles/reviews
apt6 cinema program
film and animationAn extensive selection from South East Asia to the Middle East
olafur eliasson & lynette wallworth
sydney festival 2010A review of two seductive media arts exhibitions
archive highlights
urban theatre projects
A selection of reviews, articles and interviews
features
new media arts online
portal updateThe best sites, blogs and tools for exploring New Media Arts online
dec 18, 2009
articles/reviews
in the loop
realtime news and advance wordUrgent–Cultural Policy Discussion; NOW Now Festival; a new Sydney Fringe Festival
brown council
big showReview PLUS view a video excerpt
what is music? sydney
experimental sound festivalReview PLUS view Miles Van Dorssen's Sydney sound installation
archive highlights
what is music? festival
coverage from the archiveArticles and reviews from 2002-2009
features
realtime soundcapsule #1
free downloadable compilationSound, experimental and new music from artists featured in RealTime over 2009
sound online
portal updateA guide to websites that cater to sound arts enthusiasts
studio
cara-ann simpson
noise cancellation: disrupting audio perceptionReview & interview
nov 23, 2009
articles/reviews
heart of gold
comic musical extravaganzaA rural-gothic mix of musical theatre with visual arts influences
the view from elsewhere
film and video art from asia and the middle eastAn expansive exhibition curated with scope and sensitivity
dominic redfern
stonewallPerformance-video installation PLUS view video documentation of the exhibition
archive highlights
sue healey
dance choreographerArticles, reviews and interviews PLUS view an excerpt from The Curiosities
studio
kate murphy
the appointmentReview, interview PLUS view an excerpt from The appointment
nov 6, 2009
articles/reviews
johanna billing
i'm lost without your rhythmReview and images
archive highlights
dance on screen
Reviews, articles & interviews from the archive
features
dance film online
portal updateStarter survey of dance film websites PLUS view dance drama machinima
studio
sam smith
special effectsReview & interview PLUS view Into the Void
earbash
new weird australia vol 1 & 2
various artistsFree-to-download musical experimentations in review
oct 26, 2009
articles/reviews
reality check
watching sylvania watersFly-on-the-wall inspired visual arts
wade marynowsky
the hosts: a masquerade of improvising automatonsAn encounter with interactive dancing robots
archive highlights
animation
Reviews, articles & interviews from the archive
studio
isobel knowles
i fell off my bikereview, artist statement PLUS view the animation
earbash
clare cooper & chris abrahams
germ studiesDX7 synthesiser and Chinese guzheng combine intriguingly
sep 22, 2009
articles/reviews
2009 melbourne fringe festival
previewProgram shortlist and interview
come hither noise
audio-visual worksMulti-sensory experiences in review
primavera 2009
museum of contemporary artAustralia's up and coming artists under 35
archive highlights
australian indigenous film
film, animation, digital mediaInterviews and reviews from the archive
in the loop
realtime news
advance wordElectrofringe 2009; Wayfarer in Melbourne; Rong Rong; Lynette Wallworth documentary; Lucas Abela; Furas dels Baus workshop
sep 4, 2009
articles/reviews
beautiful kate
rachel wardConfronting taboo territory and subdued direction breaks new ground
cedar boys
serhat caradeeA finely crafted account of Lebanese-Australian life in Western Sydney
features
portal update
video artReviews of a selection of sites dedicated to video art and moving image
studio
jaki middleton & david lawrey
you're not thinking fourth dimensionallyTemporal and dimensional illusion at the MCA PLUS video excerpt
aug 21, 2009
articles/reviews
chronology arts
gradations of lightNew music, light, responsive video art and ideas
leavesley, costi & stringraphy
a nest of cinnamonJapanese-Australian collaboration using live and pre-recorded multimedia
archive highlights
keith armstrong
media artistArticles, reviews and interviews
features
induce workshop
on edge, cairnsVisual arts and performance reviews
studio
branch nebula
sweatReview & interview PLUS video excerpt
jul 17, 2009
archive highlights
liquid architecture
sound arts festivalArticles & reviews from the archive
studio
roger mills
idea of southA radiophonic transmission; review & artist statement
earbash
erdem helvacioglu
wounded breathReverberant processing of electroacoustic compositions
rice corpse
mrs riceAustralian-chinese collaboration
jul 3, 2009
articles/reviews
ernie althoff
the middle eightSculpture as music
nighttime: petty theft
an evening of short worksContentious cut and paste performances
archive highlights
rosie dennis
performance artistReviews, articles & interviews from the archive PLUS a video excerpt
studio
penelope cain
infestationReview & interview
in the loop
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

























































































































