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Oct-Nov 2013

editorial



festivals

DARWIN FESTIVAL
Expectations and cultural crossovers
Fiona Carter: Tracks Dance Company, Zombies In the Banyan Tree

DARWIN FESTIVAL
Shaken out of the everyday
Nicola Fearn: Yumi Umiumare with Theatre Gumbo, DasSHOKU SHAKE!



special features

ART, WELLNESS & DEATH
Art & care: where life and death connect
Margaret Cameron: Chamber Made Opera, Opera-Therapea

ART, WELLNESS & DEATH
Riding the theta waves
Urszula Dawkins, Theta Lab, George Poonkhin Khut and James Brown

ART, WELLNESS & DEATH
Solace in the sensorium
George Poonkhin Khut: Interactive & Participatory Art and Research

ART, WELLNESS & DEATH
The art of multi-sensory care
Keith Gallasch: Interview, Efterpi Soropos, Human Rooms

ART, WELLNESS & DEATH
Transitions: performance, mortality and ceremony
Victoria Spence: Life Rites Celebrant & Death Literacy Consultant

performance

WOMEN + PERFORMANCE 4
Ambiguities of gender
Anne Thompson: Kate Davis & Emma Valente, The Rabble

Online e-dition 30 October, 2013
The wrath of Plath
Tony Reck: Barry Dickins’ A Kind of Fabulous Hatred

Online e-dition 23 October, 2013
What the death wish most desires
Tony Reck: Peter King, John Gabriel Borkman

CANBERRA 100
Lives surviving disarray
Zsuzsanna Soboslay: Urban Theatre Projects, Catalogue of Dreams

A brave & curious turn
Mary Ann Hunter: Junction Festival, Dogs & Boats & Airplanes Children’s Choir

At play with the one-on-one
Keith Gallasch: Proximity festival preview

Bluebottle’s good genies
Keith Gallasch: Interview, Bluebottle - Andrew Livingston & Ben Cobham

Come & play
Robert Reid: Play In Australian Performance Practice

Desperately seeking Barbara
Virginia Baxter: Brown Council, This Is Barbara Cleveland

Identity’s loose grip
Keith Gallasch: Sydney theatre—STC, Back To Back, Moogahlin Performing Arts

Making it
Keith Gallasch: Interview, Peta Downes, Dramatic Arts, AIM

Making sense of place & relocation
Ilana Cohn: Campbelltown Arts Centre, Temporary Democracies

Performance Space at 30: still weird & wonderful
Keith Gallasch: interview, Bec Dean, Jeff Khan, Performance Space, You’re History

Strictly in the moment
John Bailey: Side Pony Productions; Grit Theatre

Teen girl brutalism
Teik-Kim Pok: Casula Powerhouse, Tough Beauty

The evils of neo-liberalised warfare
Interview: Irving Gregory, Version 1.0, The Vehicle Failed To Stop



dance

Online e-dition 30 October, 2013
Swept up by an emotional storm
Bernadette Ashley, Dancenorth, Abandon

CANBERRA 100
Sharing country
Zsuzsanna Soboslay: QL2’s Quantum Leap, Hit the Floor Together

Dress sense
Virginia Baxter: Martin Del Amo, Little Black Dress Suite

In the continuum of flux
Pauline Manley: Force Majeure, Byron Perry, Double Think

Other anatomies, other ecosystems
Jessica Sabatini, Nat Cursio Co, Blizzard



visual arts

A universe of everyday desires
Urszula Dawkins: Michaela Gleave, Universal Truths

Reconsidering museology
Chris Reid: Blender; Crystal Palace

sound/music

THNMF2013
Acoustic space: explicit object
Steve Paraskos: di Scipio, Curran

THNMF2013
Complexity from simple tools
John Barton: ICMC, Percussion and Live Electronics

THNMF2013
New music: celebration & angst
Matthew Lorenzon: Totally Huge New Music Festival overview

Online e-dition 6 November, 2013
Opera: individual passion, collective tragedy
Zsuzsanna Soboslay: Sandra France, Helen Nourse, From a Black Sky

Online e-dition 20 November, 2013
Sound, speed, rust and re-cycling
Jon Rose: Canberra 100, The Canberra Pursuit

Online e-dition 13 November, 2013
Intensity over pleasure
Greg Hooper: Open Frame, The Future is Noise, Francisco López

A lifetime as composition
Chris Reid: Alvin Curran, Soundstream

Empowered by and embodied in song
Keith Gallasch: Interview, Jo Truman, Singer, Composer, Producer

Operas of conscience
Keith Gallasch: Sydney Chamber Opera; Harbour City Opera



+onscreen
film & screen culture

ON THE DOX
Facing the evasion of the bitterest truth
Dan Edwards: Interview, Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act Of Killing

AUDIOVISION
Accelerated media & aural fatigue
Philip Brophy: Death Race 3: Inferno

A troubled love letter to Laos
Katerina Sakkas: Kim Mordaunt, The Rocket

Denying fashion’s dark side
Karen De Perthuis: Baz Luhrmann, The Great Gatsby

Unexpectedly & violently absurd
Dan Edwards: Jia Zhangke, A Touch Of Sin



+onscreen media arts

REGIONAL ARTS
Eastern Riverina sites & sounds
Gail Priest : Interview, Sarah Last, Wired Lab

Online e-dition 6 November, 2013
The past as the construction of a snapshot
Greg Hooper: Yeondoo Jung, MAAP Space

Syria: protest, mobile phones & death
Tara Forrest : Rabih Mroué, The Pixelated Revoultion, Vienna

The artist handles the world
Danni Zuvela: Tony Woods: Archive

User-friendly branding for risk-taking art
Keith Gallasch: Interview, Andrew Donovan, Experimental Arts, Australia Council