Welcome and farewell. Farewell to RealTime, a 25-year publishing adventure that has come to a celebratory conclusion and welcome to the RealTime Archive, a massive documentation of a period of remarkable transformation driven by the artists who inspired us and to whom we and our many writers creatively responded. This will be a living archive with new overview essays and content guides coming online and enriched by UNSW Library’s wonderful exhibition In Response: Dialogues with RealTime, which features in this edition.
Improving the overall archive, we’ve upgraded the RealTime website, a treasure house of all editions placed online 1994-present, numerous features, a host of audio and video delights and some new content.
RealTime has been a way of life for us, of deep immersion in worlds conjured by adventurous artists across Australia and beyond. As art wondrously and radically mutated over the last 25 years, via experiment, hybridity and reaching beyond itself into science and numerous other fields, it changed the ways we receive and respond to it and, as writers, how we expressed the experience. We write about this in our essay for the In Response: Dialogue with RealTime catalogue. Our thanks to everyone who has been involved in RealTime — writers, artists, staff, Board members, funders and readers. Enjoy the archive and let us know how we can help you explore it. Virginia & Keith
IN RESPONSE: DIALOGUES WITH REALTIME This innovative UNSW Library exhibition features displays and live presentations by Martin Del Amo, Branch Nebula and Vicki Van Hout reflecting on their works and the critical response to them.
IN RESPONSE… ARTISTS IN ACTION Keith Gallasch witnesses the three live presentations made for In Response: Dialogues with RealTime, in which Martin Del Amo, Branch Nebula and Vicki Van Hout idiosyncratically animated their installations.
THE REALTIME TEAMThis new section features a joint biography for Managing Editors Keith and Virginia, seen here with RealTime staff in 2014. More entries will be added as we complete the archive.
TROVE & THE REALTIME ARCHIVE: A GUIDE
UNSW Library and the National Library of Australia have partnered to place digitised RealTime editions 1994-2015 on the NLA’s TROVE website, in recognition of the historical and cultural value of the magazine. And see what’s new in the upgraded RealTime website.
YOU’RE INVITED TO THE REALTIME ARCHIVE LAUNCH
At 6pm, 17 April at the UNSW Library Exhibition Space. Professor Sarah Miller AM will launch the archiving of the 130 RealTime print editions 1994-2015 on the National Library of Australia’s TROVE website in partnership with UNSW Library. We hope to see you there.
IN RESPONSE: DIALOGUES WITH REALTIME: THE CATALOGUE Essays by John Baylis, Lizzie Thompson and Amanda Card reflect on the relationship between performance and RealTime review in the works of Branch Nebula, Vicki Van Hout and Martin Del Amo.
ABOUT REALTIME:
A BRIEF HISTORY
Keith and Virginia’s sketch of RealTime’s history includes not only its many editions in print since 1994 and online since 1996, but other publications, a book on Australian contemporary dance and numerous review-writing workshops here and overseas.
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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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