RealTime E-dition 9 August 2017

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In our ongoing Arts Education & Training feature, we focus on recent graduates embarking on their careers and reflecting on the university faculties and courses that helped shape them. Visual artist Gwan Tung Dorothy Lau (with her doppleganger in the image above) specifies QUT's opening her up to a range of practices and encouraging experimentation as pivotal to her development. A UNSW School of Arts & Media Alumni Residency Program maintains connections with graduates, like the team of singer Sonya Holowell and designer Elia Bosshard, by supporting them to develop early career projects with real outcomes. Both profiles make for fascinating reading about the thinking of emerging artists. And Maggie Tonkin's new book Fifty, Half a Century of Australian Dance Theatre, will be an invaluable asset for teachers, students and researchers in Australian dance. We're giving away two copies to some lucky subscribers. Keith & Virginia

INSIDE DEMENTIA Black Hole Theatre's The Book of Revelations evokes mental disintegration, writes Alison Finn, "as a series of fantastical appearances, materialising from everyday existence, alternately wondrous and terrifying."

CABLE TV, THE NEW ARTHOUSE Jake Wilson speaks with a key cultural innovator in long-form storytelling, Vince Gilligan, about Better Call Saul, moral ambiguity and visual abstraction in television.

SUSTAINING ARTIST-ALUMNI UNSW's School of Arts & Media Alumni Residency Program provides Sonya Holowell and Elia Bosshard space and resources to develop an innovative music performance work to premiere in the Sydney Fringe Festival.

PACT SALON # 2: POSSIBLE ABILITIES A Saturday night art party at an experimental performance venue provided a vital if uneven platform for artists with physical and invisible disabilities, writes Lauren Carroll Harris.

THE GOOD BOOK: ADT AT 50 Keith Gallasch applauds Maggie Tonkin's Fifty, an invaluable history of the Australian Dance Theatre's artistic achievements, in part revealed in the recollections of artistic directors and textured with the harsh realities of arts politics.

WHY NOT A PLACE FOR EVERYONE?
In Gail Evans’ darkly immersive production of Mary Anne Butler's play The Sound of Waiting, a callously droll Angel of Death (a figure inspired by our political leaders) attempts to destroy a refugee father and his daughter.

AUDIOVISION 27: MESHUGGAH & THE POST-HUMAN
The band "so fastidiously constructs music bent on repelling identification and access, yet inspires awe through granting the listener a post-human experience" via remarkable synchronisation of playing, sound and light.

PLAYING OUT PARA-SELVES
Recent QUT visual arts graduate Gwan Tung Dorothy Lau reflects on an artistically liberating education, cultural identity and interaction with her doppelgangers in performative photography.

BACK TO & FORWARD FROM MODERNISM Lindsay Vickery's GreyWing ensemble performed South American and responsive Australian works that transcended the 'Latin' label in their stylistic variety.

GIVEAWAY: ADT AT FIFTY
Two copies of this beautifully produced large format book, featuring numerous images of the Australian Dance Theatre in action and celebrating an enduring legacy of innovative performance.

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