RealTime E-dition 10 September 2018

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As a prelude to our five-hour open conversation, RealTime in real time, as part of the Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art, this edition is packed with archival delights. In a new archival feature, Writers read RealTime, contributing writers have recorded themselves reading reviews they’re fond of about shows that impressed them. The first four are by Dan Edwards, Chris Reid, Gail Priest and Jonathan W Marshall. As well, Katerina Sakkas appraises how RealTime and its writers responded to new developments in photography 2005-17. The image above, by Robyn Stacey, one of the survey’s subjects, is the result of the artist’s deployment of the ancient (500BCE) pinhole or camera obscura technique. A former RealTime staff member from 1998 to 2002, Kirsten Krauth affectingly recalls a busy creative life as editor and writer while Greg Hooper and Jonathan W Marshall look back over two decades of reviewing, frankly and incisively addressing the pleasures and challenges of the art. If you’re in Sydney on 21 October we’d love to see and hear from you at RealTime in real time. Keith & Virginia

LIVEWORKS: REALTIME IN REAL TIME Unfolding over 5 hours on Sunday 21 October at the Liveworks Festival, RealTime in real time will be an open conversation charting the remarkable transformation of the art experience over the last quarter century and our response to it, as writers, artists and audiences.

LIVING THE REALTIME LIFE Kirsten Krauth vividly recalls her RealTime years 1998-2002, as an evolving writer, Assistant Editor and Editor of the OnScreen supplement, embracing Australian film, hypertext and much more, including a one-off stint as Ivana Caprice, digital porn artist.

A SUPERBLY SLIPPERY MEDIUM: PHOTOGRAPHY IN REALTIME 2005-2017 Transformations in documentary photography, the influence of the vernacular shot, photography as history, collaboration and performativity figure in Katerina Sakkas' survey of incisive, evocative reviewing of images wrought by Pat Brassington, r e a, Christian Thompson, Thomas Demand, Trent Parke, Heidrun Löhr, Robyn Stacey and more in RealTime.

EDITED HIGHLIGHTS: THE REALTIME YEARS Ranging across 20 years of reviewing for RealTime, Greg Hooper selects his best opening gambits and endings, recalls the art that thrilled and did not, being shy with artists, abhoring unethically loud concerts and challenging taste-offended theorists who see in modernism and its heirs the source of contemporary evil.

WELCOMING THE CHALLENGE OF THE NEW
Jonathan W Marshall probes his reviewing since 1998, focusing on favorite works in theatre and dance (early on in Melbourne in particular), assaying the role of RealTime and reflecting on writing from WA.

HEAR WRITERS READ REALTIME
As part of our celebration of the RealTime Archive, we thought you might like to hear the actual voices of our contributors, so we've invited them to record readings of reviews of favourite works in Writers read RealTime.

CONTRIBUTOR:
FIONA MCGREGOR
Performance artist, award-winning novelist and author of a book on a performance art tour of Poland, Fiona McGregor commenced writing for RealTime in 1994 with "Pap Smears and Whipped Cream: Dyke Performance in the 90s."

CONTRIBUTOR:
ANDREW FUHRMANN
Andrew, who writes about dance, books, theatre, visual art "and who knows what else," teaches at the VCA and is a researcher at the University of Melbourne, asks "What can I say about myself that can't already be deduced from the criticism?"

THE BEST OF TEE OFF WITH VIVIENNE INCH
Embracing a 1997 scheme to eliminate ugliness from public spaces in time for the 2000 Olympics, RealTime columnist Vivienne Inch proposed sport take a good look at itself.

THE BEST OF TOOTH & CLAW WITH JACK RUFUS
Cricket season, late 1997, finds RealTime sports columnist Jack Rufus maddened by a strange linguistic condition afflicting Australian cricket captain Mark “Tubby” Taylor.

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