RealTime E-dition 10 September 2018

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RealTime Extra. As we continue to refine and build on the RealTime archive, we thought you’d enjoy reading about the joyous launch at UNSW Library Exhibition Space by Professor Sarah Miller OA of the complete 1994-2015 print editions of RealTime on the National Library of Australia’s TROVE website. You can also read each of the excellent speeches by Sarah, UNSW Librarian Martin Borchert, Tony MacGregor, Chair of Open City, publisher of RealTime, and Jeremy Smith, representing the Australia Council for the Arts. It was a night of reflection, laughter and a few tears.

Adding substantially to the RealTime archive are contributions in this edition from long-time RealTime associates Caroline Wake and Erin Brannigan. Focusing on Sydney performance, art and refugees, and errant arts funding policies, Caroline looks back on the years she wrote extensively for RealTime. Erin, who commenced writing for us in 1997, bravely corrals RealTime’s enormous coverage of dance across Australia.

As well, we’re publishing two fascinating essays commissioned by RealTime towards the kind of book we need in this country. To be edited by RealTime contributors Jana Perkovic and Andrew Fuhrmann, the collection will focus on theatre and performance in Melbourne 2005-2015. Jana charts a diminishing preoccupation with ‘liveness’ across the period; Andrew personally grids the city according to his encounters with pivotal works at non-mainstream venues.

Although we’re working quietly and intermittently, we’d love to hear any queries or observations you might have about the RealTime archive. Special thanks to Sandy Edwards for the photographs of the launch.
All the best, Keith & Virginia

ARCHIVE ALIVE: LAUNCHING REALTIME ON TROVE
The launch of the 1994-2015 print editions of RealTime on the National Library of Australia’s TROVE website was a memorable night of performances, reminiscences and wise words about cultural memory and the importance of archiving, inflected with laughter and a few tears.

REALTIME DANCES: THE BIG PICTURE Erin Brannigan takes on the monumental task of surveying RealTime’s committed engagement with Australian contemporary dance from state to state, in theatres, galleries, onscreen, in digital interactions and Indigenous practices.

(IN)FORMATIVE REVIEWING:
A DECADE OF SYDNEY PERFORMANCE
Drawing on her writing for RealTime, Caroline Wake incisively assays theatres of ‘the real’ and of refugees, the decline of ensembles, the impacts of cultural diversity and the depredations wrought by the absence of a federal government arts policy.

THE SLOW RETREAT OF REALITY
Jana Perkovic analyses the rise and decline since 2005 of liveness in Melbourne theatre and performance; the notion of ‘you had to be there’ weakening as the digital record supplants presence.

SCENE CHANGES: MAPPING MELBOURNE THEATRE
Andrew Fuhrmann traces his performance-going trajectories 2005-15, reflecting on a theatre culture that once worked in the fringes and revelled in them, creating its own public spaces and demanding attention.

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