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This week Andrew Fuhrmann reviews a major survey of one of RealTime's very favourite artists, Christian Thompson, seen above. Elsewhere, it's time to pop on the headphones for excerpts from Philip Samartzis' Antarctic explorations and human and avian duets from Hollis Taylor's Absolute Bird CD, as well as Julian Day's engaging Poles in our Critical Video series. Liquid Architecture is on a roll with two events, Polyphonic Social and Danger Magic, that push listening out of the ordinary. Sadly, art criticism continues to take a battering as newspapers decline and the national broadcaster fails to invest; this week the ABC's Triple J does it on the cheap. More on the future of criticism soon. Keep calm and carry on. Keith & Virginia
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KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS: MIRROR TRAP         Mish Grigor looks for new grand narratives and ways of telling promised by one of Europe's most adventurous performing arts festivals and finds herself in an audience locked in a room for 24 hours.
Polyphonic Social
POLYPHONIC SOCIAL: SACRED & OTHER RESONANCES          In the Good Shepherd Chapel in Melbourne's Abbotsford Convent, Elyssia Bugg experiences an embracing Liquid Architecture event that variously evokes the numinous and the ecstatic.
Julian Day
CRITICAL VIDEO: JULIAN DAY, POLES   Clashes between "the meticulous precision of the concept and the cheerful cacophony of the execution, the formal austerity of the cinematic framing and the gleefully deadpan execution of the performers," delight Oliver Downes.
Antarctica
ANTHROPO[S]CENIC ANTARCTICA       Philip Samartzis' bracing book and CD, Antarctic: An Absent Presence, takes Gail Priest on an immersive visual and aural journey into an icy wilderness inflected with human intrusion.
Zagreb traveller
REALTIME TRAVELLER: JANA PERKOVIC, ZAGREB      Jana Perkovic offers a fine account of an accommodating middle European city with its excellent theatre scene, festivals, Museum of Broken Relationships, great cafes and fine parks, one virtually a forest.
Wireless
PHONE RE-THINK: LISA WILSON, PAUL CHARLIER       The co-directors intrigue Keith Gallasch with their vision for a new dance work, Wireless, that addresses the creative potentials and dire threats embodied in the not so ordinary smart phone.
Thompson
CHRISTIAN THOMPSON'S PERFORMATIVE SELF PORTRAITURE                
At a survey exhibition of 15 years of the remarkable creations of Christian Thompson, Andrew Fuhrmann ponders "what is it that makes this protean artist and his obsession with self-portraiture such an enduring fascination?"
Danger Music
DANGER MAGIC:
DARK SOUNDINGS
      
Keith Gallasch feels the danger in daunting performances by Andrew Harper and Geoffrey Gartner in Liquid Architecture's Danger Magic at Sydney's Firstdraft.
Triple J
TRIPLE J & ARTS CRITICISM
IN CRISIS

The controversial competition for a new screen critic at Triple J reveals a deeper problem: a deprofessionalisation and devaluation of criticism in Australia at the national youth broadcaster and beyond, argues Cameron Williams.
Birdsong
IS BIRDSONG MUSIC?
ASK THE BUTCHERBIRD
    Zoömusicologist Hollis Taylor reveals the cultural life and compositional skills of birds in a wonderful new book with a CD on which humans join in the music-making. Listen to fascinating excerpts
Wireless
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REALTIME AUDIO: PHILIP SAMARTZIS' ANTARCTICA        Feel the sheer force of Antarctic wind activating the symphonic potential of wire and sheet metal in an excerpt from Samartzis' Antarctica: An Absent Presence.
Absolute Bird
GIVEAWAY: ABSOLUTE BIRD
A very special double CD by Hollis Taylor features a magical coming together of Australian musicians — avian and human.

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