RealTime E-dition 29 November 2017

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This week we report on two important festivals that feature spheres of often underrated artistic activity, one drawing together artists from across the country, the other making global connections. The Hobiennale Arts Festival, a gathering of Australian and New Zealand Artist Run Initiatives (ARIs), exhibited over 100 artists in and around Hobart, and Unsound Adelaide, an experimental music event springing out of Poland, featured international and Australian artists. For our report on Hobiennale, Lucy Hawthorne takes in a wide swathe of the festival and Lucy Parakhina aims her video camera at artworks, events and participants. You can also watch our streaming of NAVA's forum on the state of ARIs. Chris Reid applauds Unsound Adelaide’s intelligent programming in a country in which experimental electronic music events of scale are far too rare. Amid generic arts festivals, Hobiennale and Unsound yield idiosyncratic pleasures for audiences and hope for artists. Keith & Virginia

REPORT: HOBIENNALE ARTS FESTIVAL Hobiennale, a significant gathering of ARIs from across Australia and New Zealand, impresses Lucy Hawthorne with its sharing of works, performances, ideas and its participants' adaptability to sites in and around Hobart.

REALTIME TV: HOBIENNALE Lucy Parakhina provides a visual overview of the Hobiennale Arts Festival, featuring interviews with festival directors Grace Herbert and Liam James, and participants from Brisbane, Sydney and Alice Springs.

ENVISIONING THE SUBJECTIVE MATERNAL BODY Realising Mother, an exhibition featuring 16 female photographers, "puts the real and messy, imperfect and beautiful, often unexpected maternal body back front and centre," writes Jasmine Salomon.

EXCESS, GOOD AND BAD Keith Gallasch revels in Muriel's Wedding, The Musical, admiring both its fabulous inventiveness and fidelity to the spirit of the film, troubled only by last act excesses that undo the original's wisdom.

A LIFE EXAMINED Nicky Fearn admires Darwin actress and playwright Tessa Rose's The Daly River Girl, a solo performance "melding the horror and laughter in the life of a resilient survivor who recounts her stories with wry insight."

LOCAL-GLOBAL SOUNDINGS
Chris Reid's comprehensive account of the Unsound Festival, formerly part of the Adelaide Festival, covers a range of impressive international and local artists and serious thinking about the state of experimental music.

GRIEVING DEAD TECH
A liberated, phoneless Malcolm Whittaker welcomes Aphids' Artefact, a live and video documented performance that encourages reflection on the passing of personal technologies.

GIVEAWAY: THESE HEATHEN DREAMS DVD
In her 2014 film, Anne Tsoulis documents the life and art of self-professed cultural Bolshevik Christopher Barnett, radical poet, playwright and key figure in the Adelaide and Melbourne art milieus of the 1970s and 80s.

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