RealTime E-dition 20 September 2017

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In a world steeped in cynicism and buffeted by escalating crises, it’s difficult to fantasise peaceful and socially equitable futures. Too Close to the Sun’s The Bluebird Mechanicals [image above] conjures an exquisitely beautiful world, a museum-ish miniature of our own, doomed by hubris to imminent destruction, but blessed with the fertile imaginations of the production’s numerous makers.

The Singapore Art Museum’s After Utopia, about to open as part of Adelaide’s OzAsia Festival, creatively puts speculation back on the agenda at a time when rising inequality is met with growing arguments for a universal basic wage and entrenched homophobia must give way to marriage equality — utopianism by democratic degrees. In our ongoing Arts Education feature we focus on the influence of the Adelaide Central School of Art and on works by five luminous graduate filmmakers — kick off your watching with Michael Candy’s amazing Esther Antenna. Keith & Virginia

THE POROUS VOICE Ensemble Offspring's Who Dreamed It? features five female composers. One of them, Lisa Ilean, tells Keith Gallasch about the subtle forces — poetry, twilight, voices and "scraps of heard things" — that inform her new work, Cantor.

SOLID FRAMEWORK, RIGOROUS PRACTICE
Joanna Kitto interviews artists Julia Robinson, Anna Horne and Andrew Clarke about the skills and attitudes they’ve carried with them from their student years at the Adelaide Central School of Art.

FESTIVE HARDCORE Soft Centre, a new, big, bold 12-hour festival of electronic music has added depth and scale with immersive light works and collaborations between musicians and visual and performance artists at Casula Powerhouse, Alice Joel tells RealTime.

OZASIA: TANGLING WITH UTOPIA Chris Reid takes in After Utopia — a timely exhibition from Singapore soon to be seen in Adelaide — which eloquently assays the fantasies and realities that shape our capacity to project ideal societies.

FIVE LUMINOUS NEW AUSTRALIAN FILMMAKERS There’s no single route for young people into filmmaking in this country or anywhere. Lauren Carroll Harris finds five artists taking distinctly zigzagging, peripatetic educational and creative pathways into cinema.

THE LOOP: GLOBAL INCOHERENCE This week, smart creative thinkers address political storytelling, the figure of the migrant in Australian cinema and the new Slow Art theory.

P J KOOL: CULTURE, CANCER AND CLOTH
In an essay accompanying an exhibition celebrating the life of her late partner, Passi Jo, and addressing creative palliative care, photographer Pam Kleemann-Passi writes revealingly about the critical role of fashion in an African immigrant's life.

THIS TOY WORLD
The Bluebird Mechanicals is a fantastical melding of Chekhov, the Hindenburg disaster and windup birds in a wunderkammer world facing climate change demise and animated, writes Victoria Carless, by an engaging performance and design brio.

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