RealTime E-dition 29 June 2018

RealTime E-dition

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Hot off the press!! At long last RealTime print editions 1-40 are available in our online archive. PDFs of each edition preserve the look of RealTime and each is searchable — treasure chests of highly responsive reviewing, critical thinking and, yes, humour (we even had ‘sports’ columns in those days).

With today’s edition we proudly commence our series of Archive Overviews by RealTime writers. Virginia, addressing RealTime responses to Australian Indigenous performance 1994-2000, and Katerina, surveying our visual arts coverage 1994-2004, have invested many weeks delving into the magazine’s inky pages to produce comprehensive accounts detailing key emerging artists and forms and political, cultural and funding challenges. These provide excellent pathways into our archive.

Our archiving is in transition. We currently have two websites, 2001-2015 and 2016-present. The former is about to be incorporated into the latter, providing one access point. Until that happens, our Archive page includes all 1994-2000 and 2016-present editions while 2001-2015 editions can be accessed by going to RealTime’s original website.

Dive into the 1994-2000 archive and let us know what you think. Keith, Virginia, Katerina

MAKING ART IN HEAVY WEATHER:
INDIGENOUS PERFORMANCE 1994-2000
Virginia Baxter traces the emergence from 1994 to 2000 of a highly influential generation of Australian Indigenous performance-makers, bold experimenters sustaining and generously sharing their culture.

HIGHLY CHARGED CONNECTIONS:
VISUAL ARTS 1994-2004
In Part 1 of her survey, Katerina Sakkas reveals key trends and issues: burgeoning hybridity and cross-cultural dialogue, pivotal major exhibitions, prominence and challenges for Indigenous art, and threats to arts education and ARIs.

REALTIME 1994-2000 ONLINE FOR THE FIRST TIME
We've scanned the 40 print editions of RealTime's first six years, making available a fascinating record of a period of wildly intensive creativity, new and fervent preoccupations, humour and angry arts politics.

IN THE LOOP:
SILENT BODIES DEBATE VIOLENCE
A violent sport, Calcio Storico, is the unlikely inspiration for Shaun Leonardo's non-violent, wordless, movement-based, body language "debate" triggered by gun crime.

DEEP ARCHIVE:
ANGRY AT AUSTRALIA
In RealTime 95, Robyn Archer challenges director Baz Luhrmann's use of music "deeply tied to an unreconstructed dependency on our colonisers," while Philip Brophy in RT89 says blame the country, not the film.

IMARA SAVAGE REMAKES SAINT JOAN
In this gripping Sydney Theatre Company production of the Shaw classic, Sarah Snook's acutely realised Joan is possessed, poetic and irreducible to 21st century individualism or idealised feminism, the remarkable performance informed by new writing from Savage and Emme Hoy.

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RealTime E-ditions are published by Open City an Incorporated Association in New South Wales. Open City Inc is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding body, and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy [VACS], an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.

Opinions published in RealTime are not necessarily those of the Editorial Team or the Publisher.

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