RealTime E-dition 18 July 2018

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In this edition we look to the present that forges the future — the 2018 OzAsia Festival’s distinctive deepening of the relationship between Asia and Australia; and to the past — RealTime’s reporting of the challenges involved in cultural exchange in the visual arts as revealed in the second part of Katerina Sakkas’ intensive survey of visual arts writing in RealTime 1994-2004. Across 19 years of reviewing, Chris Reid tracks his personal responses to new music and its formal, technological and affective evolution. Finally, in these grim times, we bring you the first instalment of the best of the RealTime satirical sports columns of the 1990s, commencing with Tee Off with Vivienne Inch. Although, when Australian democracy is being perilously tested by the Government case against Witness K and his lawyer for allegedly threatening national security, we can only smile with gritted teeth. Keith & Virginia

VISUAL ARTS, PART 2 1994-2004: CONVERGENCE & RESURGENCE Katerina Sakkas finds that RealTime's writers "illuminate the complexities of cross-cultural exchange arising from new waves of contemporary Asian art; contextualise the millennial flourishing of photography, painting and video art; and bring linguistic playfulness to idiosyncratic installations."

LIFE-CHANGING LISTENING FOR REALTIME: 1999-2017
Chris Reid vividly reflects on enormous changes in contemporary music, applauding Stephen Whittington, Anthony Pateras, Gabriella Smart, Zephyr Quartet, Speak Percussion, Mimic Mass, Australian Art Orchestra, Guy Ben-Ary, Keiichiro Shibuya (and his robot singer Skeleton) and key festivals like Unsound.

OZASIA FESTIVAL 2018: BEYOND BORDERS Artistic Director Joseph Mitchell reveals to Ben Brooker a cluster of key works in his third OzAsia program including the very real Dancing Grandmothers (South Korea), the meta-theatrical Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land (China) and War Sum Up (Denmark's Hotel Pro Forma embraces Japanese cultural influence).

TEE OFF WITH VIVIENNE INCH
In the 1990s, RealTime backpage satirical columnists Vivienne Inch and Jack Rufus (Tooth & Claw) wickedly hybridised the worlds of art, politics and sport, drawing on real world incidents and issues. We commence a retrospective with two exemplary pieces by art-golfer Inch.

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