REALTIME E-DITION MAY 10, 2011

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

articles/reviews
restless dance theatre's take me there
Jonathan Bollen looks at the role of memory in Restless Dance Theatre's Take Me There

archive highlight
art & disability in australia
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

earbash
calibrated and listen to the weather
Gail Priest enjoys the paradox of recording improvisation in Blip's Calibrated and is intrigued by a different approach to ecological audio in Flaming Pines' release Listen to the Weather

in the loop
new music, new media
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

Images: LEFT column top to bottom - Ai Weiwei missing poster, photo stunned http://www.flickr.com/photos/stunned/5617784880/in/pool-1340813@N21/; Katherine Evans (centre), Jianna Georgiou and Ciaran Woods, Take Me There, Restless Dance Theatre, photo Chris Herzfeld; Sonia Teuben, Simon Laherty, Small Metal Objects, Back to Back Theatre, photo Jeff Busby; Blip, Calibrated; Ash Keating, Label Land (2009), Human Rights Arts and Film Festival, photo courtesy of the artist

Top banner: detail Courts White and Jesse Rochow, Take Me There, Restless Dance Theatre, photo Chris Herzfeld see article