editorial
GIVEAWAY 8 JUNE
The Games DVD
GIVEAWAY 29 JUNE
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence DVD
GIVEAWAY 20 JULY
Putuparri and the Rainmakers DVD
GIVEAWAY 15 JUNE
I Shudder To Think
GIVEAWAY 1 JUNE
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, DVD
Editorial June 8
Artspeak National Arts Election Debate
Fighting for the arts & the public good
Keith Gallasch: arts & the election & Justin O’Connor’s Platform Paper
festivals
OzAsia 2016: a necessary festival
Keith Gallasch: Interview Joseph Mitchell, Artistic Director, OzAsia
Playwriting: celebrating the art against the odds
Ben Brooker: 2016 National Play Festival
special features
A biennale with the city as site
Marco Marcon: Manifesta 11, What People Do For Money
Artgaming the art/video game nexus
Liam Gibbons
Revolutionising reception of the world
Keith Gallasch: Margaret Cameron, I Shudder to Think: Performance as Philosophy
Saving PACT: persistence vs crisis
Malcolm Whittaker: interview Katrina Douglas, Director, PACT
The Choreographic: concept or con?
Keith Gallasch: 20th Biennale of Sydney, Choreography & the Gallery
Thought-shifting art
Andrew Fuhrmann: Performing Climates
VR, finding its way to art
Lauren Carroll Harris, Down the Rabbit Hole, Sydney Film Festival
performance
A glorious revelation of the unseen
Elyssia Bugg: Lauren Simmonds, Unseen
A reckoning between generations
Zsuzsanna Soboslay: Raoul Craemer, Pigman’s Lament
A serious comedy connects with country
Keith Gallasch: interview Andrea James, Winyanboga Yurringa
Absurdly capital contradictions
John Bailey: Terrapin Puppet Theatre & MTC, Egg
Angles on eccentricity
John Bailey: Ranters; Maude & Anni Davey
Damage makes art
Kathryn Kelly: interview, Emma Serjeant
From Europe: Two kinds of nakedness
Jana Perkovic: Perforations Festival, Croatia
If truth be told…
Virginia Baxter: National Theatre of Parramatta, Stolen
In the wastes of Ormen
Stephen Wright: site performance, Louise Morris, Anne Scott Wilson
Radically adrift in an expanding cosmos
Mikis Vrettakos: Fight With a Stick, Revolutions
RUCKUS tames Time
Keith Gallasch: RUCKUS, Speed of Life
Strengthening an all too fragile loop
Keith Gallasch: Urban Theatre Projects, Simple Infinity
Tea, Elvis & the magical mundane
Nerida Dickinson: Samantha Chester, The Astronaut
The artist as stripper: when is ‘too much’ enough?
Varia Karipoff: Melanie Jame Wolf’s Mira Fuchs
To live, dance and love, with HIV
Andrew Fuhrmann: Jacob Boehme, Blood on the Dance Floor
dance
A dance of minds, bodies & synchronicities
Keith Gallasch: interview Kyle Page, Dancenorth
A powerful cross-cultural shape-shifter
Kathryn Kelly: Raghav Handa: Mens rea: The Shifter’s Intent
An anxiety-inducing mechanism of fascination
Andrew Fuhrmann: Chunky Move, Anouk van Dijk, Lucid
Art, empathy and risk
Zsuzsi Soboslay: Strange Attractor: Make-Think-Speak
Experimental art fills in the blanks
Keith Gallasch: Dancenorth, If_Was_ on tour
Fraught organic/digital business
Ben Brooker: Larissa McGowan, Mortal Condition
Initial conditions tight, possibilities unlimited
Bernadette Ashley: Dancenorth, If_was_
Laughter & pain in a post-colonial limbo
Jonathan W Marshall: Yirra Yaakin, So Long Suckers
The challenges of transformation
Kathryn Kelly: Raghav Handa, Mens rea: The Shifter’s Intent
To connect in a time of disintegration
Jodie McNeilly: Liz Roche Company, Time Over Distance Over Time
visual arts
NEXT WAVE
Next Wave Festival: complex selves & cultures
Catherine Clover: four visual art exhibitions
A regenerative dreamscape
Virginia Baxter: Julie Williams, The Tears
Activist art: origins and resurgence
Chris Reid: art & politics: exhibitions in Adelaide
Angles on democracy
Matthew Ngui’s Every Point of View;
Art & massacre: the necessary memory of loss
Miriam Kelly: With Secrecy and Despatch
Virtual pain, harsh reality
Keith Gallasch: Eugenie Lee, Seeing is Believing
sound/music
A musical brain of your own
Gail Priest: interview, bio-artist Guy Ben-Ary
Embracing a new reality
Zsuzsanna Soboslay, Justus Neumann, Alzheimer Symphony
Hip, political music-making
Angus McPherson: Colin Bright Syzygy Band
Roger Smalley: a new music legacy reinvigorated
Alex Turley: Decibel, Scale Variable, Intermodulations
The city as problem and solution
Matthew Lorenzon: Metropolis New Music Festival, Music of the City
+onscreen
film & screen culture
ON THE DOX
Documenting emotion
Dan Edwards: 2016 Human Rights Arts and Film Festival
Cinema that reshapes seeing, time and the human animal
Katerina Sakkas: REVELATION Perth International Film Festival
Dust, myth & a new hero
Katerina Sakkas: Ivan Sen, Goldstone
REV 2016: for the love of the big screen
Keith Gallasch: Jack Sargeant, REVELATION Perth International Film Festival
+onscreen media arts
AUDIOVISION 23
Domestic violence in the white cube
Philip Brophy: Cassandra Tytler’s I’m Sorry
Brilliant hi- & lo-fi mysteries & disorientations
Greg Hooper: Taeyoon Kim at MAAP Space
Should you see Manifesto?
Keith Gallasch, Julian Rosefeldt, Manifesto, AGNSW