RealTime E-dition 19 July 2017

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So much of contemporary life feels as if it’s shattering. In the art ecology, the labour market, the housing sector, media business models and politics, things aren’t working like they used to. But sparks of fresh life are coming from surprising places. Ancient sky spirits speak to us in Warwick Thornton’s documentary, fresh from the festival circuit. Perth theatremakers are breaking apart the very atoms of narrative and putting them back together in weird and inventive ways. In a renovated substation in Melbourne, Angelo Badalamenti’s 25-year-old Twin Peaks soundtrack is remade by an art-rock band. And we continue our series of video essays by Conor Bateman — RealTime is the only publication in Australia to consistently commission such audiovisual works, as part of our effort to find new means to bring words and images together in works of creative criticism. The old ways are gone, but glimpses of the new are all around. LCH

THE SENTIENCE OF STARS Tyson Yunkaporta and Lauren Carroll Harris talk about Warwick Thornton’s new culture-jamming documentary on the many meanings of the Southern Cross, so often hijacked from Indigenous stories. Showing 23 July on NITV.

VIDEO ESSAY: ZODIAC AND THE DIGITAL CITYSCAPE
Conor Bateman observes how analogue and digital, the real and the constructed, bleed into a paranoid, video-game vision of 1970s San Francisco in David Fincher's classic crime procedural, Zodiac.

DERIVATIVELY ORIGINAL Something new emerges from the woods in art-rock band Xiu Xiu’s live homage to the famous Twin Peaks soundtrack, which for Tiarney Miekus is as melodramatic, earnest and shadowy as ever.

RECYCLING'S DOWNSIDE A Chinese documentary about the recycling industry creates a terrifying vision of poverty, materialism and waste, writes Dan Edwards.

TO THE LIGHT A new Perth theatre production sees a mystical force bind the trajectories of a cast of disparate but interconnected characters, writes Nerida Dickinson.

REALTIME TRAVELLER: KYOTO, JAPAN In the most beautiful city in the world, Sandy Edwards finds an ancient culture living in the present.

THE DEEP ARCHIVE: BAD BOY BUBBY From 1994, RealTime’s first year, comes Annemarie Jonson’s virtuosic account of the film’s intensely personal world experienced through the genius of a sound design that embeds us in Bubby’s consciousness.

APOCALYPTIC LOLS
If global disaster is a given, should we just party while the planet burns? Nerida Dickinson watches a world war of words unfold in an independent theatre show.

A META SHOW OF MODELS
Gail Priest peers into a big exhibition of little things exploring how forms of knowledge manifest in models, from dioramas to architectural miniatures and artistic renderings.

THE WUNDERKAMMER REMADE
A modern Australian anti-museum critiques the colonial and museological conventions of the cabinet of curiosities, writes Laetitia Wilson.

THE LOOP: SHATTERED STRUCTURES
Insights from artists working in shattered academic institutions, warnings against group-think, dogma and echo chambers, and thoughts on the paradigm shift in Trump’s USA. The week’s necessary art reads, from the RealTime team, to you.

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