RealTime E-dition 25 October 2017

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In one of Proximity Festival’s one-on-one performances reviewed this week, artist Cigdem Aydemir (image above) takes a participant on an unexpected studio-shoot spin on a Harley Davidson. It’s that sense of surprise and being taken out of ourselves that we look for in works that label themselves innovative or experimental. We address the latter in critiques of works by Agatha Gothe-Snape and Christian Thompson in the first week of Performance Space’s busy Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art, while Andrew Fuhrmann worries at the diminishing meaningfulness of “independent” after seeing works in Darebin Arts’ Speakeasy program. Also in this edition, adventurous music concerts coming up in Brisbane from ELISION and Kupka’s Piano, a review of Georgie Pinn’s media art empathy machine and, in Critical Audio, a superb collection of tracks chosen by Brooke Olsen and, in Critical Video, Matthew Berka’s haunting foray into a Gothic Australia. Next week, more from an action-packed Liveworks. Keith & Virginia

ONE-ON-ONE ADVENTURES In Proximity Festival 2017, Nerida Dickinson rides a whirlwind of one-on-one performance experiences including a screenstage 'spin' on a Harley Davidson as a passenger with an heroic Muslim rider, her hijab flying.

ELECTRIC GUITAR TAKES LEAD Oh to be in Cleveland, Brisbane, for CCME, a music event that features concerts by ELISION and Kupka's Piano, ensembles foregrounding electric guitar in works that are visceral and haunting.

LIVEWORKS' GHOSTS OF PERFORMANCE PAST Prompted by debate over the notion of the "experimental" central to this Performance Space festival, Keith Gallasch addresses hauntings in works by Agatha Gothe-Snape, Christian Thompson and Nat Randall.

HOMEMADE SPACE TRAVEL Making sci-fi cinema on stage with lo-fi means in Route Dash Niner: Part II, the hugely inventive Re:group Performance Collective conveys with wit the suspense and pathos of space travel, writes Nikki Heywood.

A QUESTION OF INDEPENDENCE New works in Darebin Arts’ Speakeasy program prompt Andrew Fuhrmann to wonder if the notion of independent performance has become obsolete in an era of increasing institutionalisation.

CRITICAL AUDIO:
PLAYLIST BY BROOKE OLSEN
We invite FBi Radio's Brooke Olsen to compile a genre-bending playlist of some of her most beloved sound artists working beyond Australia's major cities.

CRITICAL VIDEO: HUME’S DISAPPOINTMENT
London-based Australian artist Matthew Berka’s screen work has the look of a ghost tape, a mangled documentary, an artefact of colonisation, corrupted by trauma, writes Katerina Sakkas.

BIFEM 2017:
RESOLUTE ADVENTURERS
Matthew Lorenzon’s overview of the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music reveals a program rich in drama, politics, hybridity and all kinds of vocal, instrumental and compositional dexterity.

ECHO — SOUNDING FOR EMPATHY
In a media culture dominated by sound bites, tweets, Instas and Snapchats, Georgie Pinn's Echo swims against the tide, revealing deeper potentials for human interaction with its creative use of facial mapping in a photo-booth setting.

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