THE ARTEFFECT

Do our creative deeds have an impact on social and political views? How do artists' acts of defiance, revelation or subversion reach a wide enough audience to actually make a difference?

We’ve asked ten artists how they see their practice contributing to the debate about the power of art. More…

Diego Bonetto | Rosie Dennis | Sam Fox | Suzon Fuks | Nicola Gunn | Finegan Kruckemeyer | post | pvi collective | Jason Sweeney | Kym Vercoe

IN PROFILE:
REALITY BENDERS

Chris Howlett, ARGEMNIA
Christy Dena asks this Brisbane artist about his augmented reality game-making in Armenia.

Alison Bennett, Shifting Skin
Gail Priest responds to Bennett's visceral augmented reality project based on tattoos.

CONTRIBUTOR PROFILES
Katerina Sakkas
Meet our Sydney-based film writer, Katerina who is also a visual artist, a horror specialist and RT's advertising sales manager.

"My main aim in a review is to convey the tone and method of a film—how it goes about the business of doing what it sets out to do—without revealing too much of the narrative, though 'spoilers' aren't as much of an issue in a critical essay" More…

Oliver Downes
Our Sydney-based writer, Oliver Downes is rapidly shaping up to be an all-rounder having so far covered, film, music and theatre.

"I'm fascinated by artistic process and the sociology of creativity, the endlessly inventive ways in which people across vastly different mediums and styles approach the production of creative work and how that work responds to the social structures in which it’s produced." More…

RT BLOGS

NEW
realtimetalk.net

a forum for debate and discussion about adventurous contemporary art practices.

http://realtimetalk.net/

Partial Durations
Matthew Lorenzon/RT music blog for weekly posts on new music in Melbourne and beyond.

partialdurations.wordpress.com

COMING SOON
REALTIME 120

FEATURE
Sympathy, Empathy, Art & Action
Edward Scheer: Mike Parr and acting for refugees
Who cares for the victims in
Wolf Creek 2?
Participatory activist theatre: Rimini Protokoll's Situation Rooms
Israel & political vaudeville: Ad Infinitum's Ballad of a Burning Star (UK)
Empathy and the 21st century long-form TV series

FESTIVALS
Perth, Adelaide, Festival of Live Art, Melbourne; World Theatre Festival, Brisbane; PuSh, Vancouver, Sound Out Canberra

INTERVIEWS & PROFILES
Deborah Hay; Tacita Dean; Sophie Hyde; Lee Breuer

BOOK REVIEW
Douglas Kahn's Earth Sound, Earth Signa

On the streets 18 April

LH COLUMN: Keith Gallasch & Isaac Julien, realtime tv; Nadia Cusimano, Chiara Guidi, Jeff Stein, realtime tv; Sam Halmarack  and audience, Sam Halmarack & the Miserablites, FOLA, photo Ponch Hawkes; FOLA-What is Live Art clockwise from top left Tristan Meecham, Sam Halmarack, Beth Buchanan, Nicola Gunn, realtime tv; Nicola Gunn, realtime tv; Sam Halmarack, realtime tv;  Chicks on Speed, UTOPIA, courtesy the artists; Deborah Leiser-Moore, KaBooM, photo Lachlan Woods; Sam Chester's Safety in Numbers, photo Heidrun Löhr; Peter Volich, Vukojebina (where wolves go to f$%&), 2014, Split, Croatia

RH COLUMN: The Arteffect clockwise from top left Diego Bonetto, Wild Food Tour, photo courtesy Casula Powerhouse; Sam Fox, Hydra Poesis, Dance Journalism action, photo Alex Bainbridge; pvi collective, resist: mumbai, photos Simon Maidment; Suzon Fuks, Fluid Data; Chris Howlett, ARGEMENIA, courtesy the artist; Alison Bennett, Shifting Skin, Untitled (birds & butterflies), 2013, courtesy the artist; Katerina Sakkas; Oliver Downes

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