RealTime E-dition 27 September 2017

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In recent weeks we’ve looked at the role of the university in supporting the making of new artworks as research at postgraduate level and today review one of the outcomes, Rakini Devi’s Urban Kali. This week we turn to recent graduates, interviewing Jessica Russell and Phoebe Sullivan about the WAAPA Performance Making course that took them straight to the Perth professional stage with a self-devised work. WAAPA lecturer Frances Barbe explains how the course works, emphasising the growing importance of the university as an incubation hub. Also this week, a fascinating interview with UK performer Jo Bannon (image above) who will be in Adelaide shortly to discourse on art and perceived disability.

This week we sadly farewell Lauren Carroll Harris who has completed her contract with us as Acting Assistant Editor. Lauren realised our ambition to incorporate video and sound works into RealTime, built new content into our redesigned website and initiated, among other things, the commissioning of video essays. Her sharp editorial skills, fine writing and constant stream of exciting ideas will be missed.
Keith & Virginia

TOWARDS NEW SOUND ECOLOGIES Emily Stewart is immersed in a tech-driven exhibition curated by Gail Priest, in which sound artworks are “smeared in time” and thrown toward their possible sonic futures.

INTO SPACE BY RADIO Second Chance Theatre's Laika, staged as a radio play about early Russian space travel, is "an immensely enjoyable example of how to modestly evoke sublime spaces," writes Jonathan W Marshall.

THE UNIVERSITY AS PERFORMANCE INCUBATOR Frances Barbe, Course Coordinator for the Bachelor of Performing Arts degree at WAAPA, tells Keith Gallasch about the Performance Making course, its evolutionary structure and transformative 10-day training in Singapore.

INTERIOR REVELATIONS Sydney independent writer-director Platon Theodoris’ debut feature film, now on video-on-demand and reviewed by Keva York, transcends the limits of realism for a fantastical, Tardis-like exploration of its reclusive protagonist’s inner world.

ILLUMINATING A TOWN WITH ART With a super-local approach to programming, Launceston's Junction Arts Festival delivers grassroots works frequently absent in mainland fringe festivals, writes Lauren Carroll Harris.

FACE TO FACE WITH KALI An awed Keith Gallasch comes to terms with a fierce goddess in Rakini Devi's richly impressionistic Urban Kali, a collage of dance, sculpture, film and sound rooted in the artist's Doctor of Creative Arts research.

ONE-MINUTE DANCE AWARD WINNER The Samaya Wives' wittily inventive The Knowledge Between Us won Outstanding Achievement in Dance on Film or New Media in the 2017 Australian Dance Awards this week. We speak with one of the makers, Pippa Samaya.

OZASIA: MUSIC IN & BEYOND THE DIASPORA
A distinctive Singaporean trio, SA the Collective, who fuse classical Chinese music with multiple genres and experimental techniques, will perform in Adelaide's OzAsia Festival.

THE PERFORMANCE MAKERS
Reflecting on their training and their first professional production, Blueprint, recent WAAPA graduates Jessica Russell and Phoebe Sullivan look to a future in physical theatre and contemporary performance making.

NEVER A GHOST Soon to speak in Adelaide at the Australian Theatre Forum and in-residence for Access2Arts, British live art performer Jo Bannon speaks with Osunwunmi about capturing the play "between mundane and miracle" in work that resists the stereotyping of albinism.

VIDEO ESSAY: THE OTHER ZODIAC
Before we release a new video essay by Conor Bateman in the next edition of RealTime, don't miss his account of the fascinating interplay of the real and the digital in David Fincher’s classic crime procedural, Zodiac.

GIVEAWAY: NERUDA DVD
We have five DVDs to give away of Pablo Larrain’s critically acclaimed film, a convincingly imaginative probing of the still-open wounds of Chilean history, focused on the plight of poet Pablo Neruda on the run in 1949.

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