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Belvoir's Hir (image above) is a viscerally funny and deadly serious account of an imploding nuclear family reeling from the impact, among other things, of a transgender teenager. It's a perfect parable for our times. After focusing on graduate and postgraduate artists in recent weeks in our ongoing Arts Education & Training Feature, we turn our attention to new works made by academics who are prominent artists, successfully practising from within and beyond the academy. Professor Cat Hope of Monash University talks with RealTime about the innovations that underpin her new opera, Speechless, and Dr Karen Pearlman of Macquarie University, discusses her new film about a pioneering editor, Woman with an Editing Bench, part of the filmmaker's research into editing and cognition. Also in this edition, reviews of a cluster of bold productions — Hir, The Rape of Lucretia, Tectonic and The Hamlet Apocalypse — and Dan Edwards expresses doubts about the VR revolution. Not least, we commence our series of previews of the much anticipated 2017 OzAsia Festival. Keith & Virginia
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OzAsia
THE OZASIA-HONG KONG CONNECTION       Chris Reid speaks with OzAsia participating choreographer Chloe Wong and Hong Kong Arts Development Council Chairman Dr Wilfred Wong Ying Wai about art and the autonomous territory’s cultural identity.
Pearlman
HOW DO FILM EDITORS THINK?      Made at Macquarie University, Dr Karen Pearlman's new film about Elizaveta Svilova, editor of Man with a Movie Camera, is both a stand-alone art work and original research into editing and distributed cognition. 
Speechless
GIVING VOICE TO REFUGEES       Composed in response to the inadequate reception for The Forgotten Children report, Speechless, a new opera by Monash University Professor of Music Cat Hope, brings together soloists, unusual instrumentation and a community choir.
Lucretia
PUT TO THE TEST     With superb musicianship, striking design and challenges for its actor-singers, Sydney Chamber Opera's provocative take on Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia tests the work's moral and gender framework.
Hamlet
MAKING THE MOST OF END TIME         In The Danger Ensemble's very timely The Hamlet Apocalypse, actors oscillate between playing themselves and Shakespeare's characters with verve as the world goes to pieces, writes Victoria Carless.
Tectonic
POWER SHIFTS        In Tectonic, Dancenorth stages a work about power and climate change juxtaposed with a performance by the Urab Dancers from the slowly sinking Torres Strait island of Poruma.
Hir
HIR: A FAMILY REVOLUTION
Laughter and subtle characterisations abound in American playwright Taylor Mac's riotously funny and wrenchingly serious comedy-drama Hir, about a working class family radically transformed by a transgender adolescent.
Soundstream
SONO-MUSICAL LANGUAGES
In revealing performances, Adelaide's Soundstream Collective played works for traditional instruments and electronics by Cat Hope, Alvin Curran, Erkki Veltheim, Elena Kats Chernin and Leah Blankendaal.
Sofo
CRITICAL VIDEO:
CHARLIE SOFO'S SPLIT

Like a slide show, a stream of photographs of adjoining domestic façades reveals everyday artistic tendencies and something darker in the artist's appreciation of the local, writes Emily Stewart.
VR MIFF
VR AT MIFF:
A WORLD APART

Dan Edwards wonders if "perhaps VR is the quintessential representational technology of our time: disorientating, self-centred, exciting, world-changing — and rife with dissociative potential."
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Loop
THE LOOP:
MONUMENTAL FAKERY

Public art feeding into fake history, new critical voices on film emerging from MIFF and words that sound like the future: three vital art reads.

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