editorial
Editorial
Why not just burn the town down?
festivals
Straight Out Of Brisbane
Under the city's skin
Dan Mackinlay seeks out SOOB
Melbourne International Arts Festival
The journey: expansion and implosion
Adam Broinowski meets MIAF’s Japanese guests
Brisbane Festival
Celebration of transformation
Stephen Carleton on a multimedia realisation of Johnno
Brisbane Festival
Regenerative inversions
Douglas Leonard
Brisbane Festival
The body transported & transformed
Mary Ann Hunter experiences Cheryl Stock’s Accented Body
An impetus to innovate
Jonathan Marshall talks to Artrage’s Marcus Canning
Internet incarnate
Danni Zuvela talks to Kim Machan,
Thea Baumann & Van Sowerwine
Melbourne International Arts Festival: Inside out/outside in
Sophie Travers talks to Lucy Guerin about 2 new festival works
special features
performance
A murderous month in the country
Fiona Sprott on the evolution of a new performance
Action art against all odds
Fiona McGregor at Poland’s Interakcje 8
Body Imperfect
Susan Reid sees Bonemap’s Future Perfect
Handme that crowbar
Maryrose Cuskelly talks with Full Tilt’s Vanessa Pigrum
Labyrinths of myth
Tony Reck at The Habib Show
Murder in the theatre
Jonathan Marshall sees BSX-Theatre and Vitalstatistix
Perspective on power and perception
Keith Gallasch at moving and challenging performances
Several degrees of separation
Keith Gallasch talks with STC artistic director Robyn Nevin
We're all in this kitchen
Tony Reck at Kathleen Mary Fallon's Buyback
dance
Courageous lover, great imagineer
Garry Lester on Douglas Wright’s Black Milk
Dancing in the folds
Christopher Scanlon on BalletLab’s Origami
Darwin's evolution
Jane Hampson at Track’s Mr Big
Small beginnings
Jonathan Bollen at ADT’s Ignition 6
The ambiguities of ambition
Lucy Shepherd sees a Sydney youth dance initiative
visual arts
Artists invade history
Daniel Palmer inspects the renovations at Elizabeth Bay House
Ballen speaks
Keith Gallasch
In the body of the beholder
Elena Galimberti on performance and video
Not diving, falling
Jane Deeth experiences Brigita Ozolin’s The Gorge
The blind leading
Sasha Grbich experiences some shifts in perception
sound/music
Confined and released
Chris Reid finds himself in escape-proof architecture
Fast, furious, fleeting
Gail Priest experiences the last moments of Pelt
Into the overtones
Keith Gallasch at Ensemble Offspring’s Whirlwind of Time
Singing the unheroic hero
Chris Reid at Chambermade's new opera, The Hive
Sound bodies
Tony Osborne samples Sydney’s Liquid Architecture 7
Sounds improbable, sounds remarkable
Joel Stern and Danni Zuvela at Brisbane’s Liquid Architecture 7
Synaethesia for all
Samara Mitchell at the Australasian Computer Music Conference
+onscreen
film & screen culture
Melbourne International Film Festival
Nordic thrills and other good shorts
Simon Sellars on MIFF’s shorts program
Melbourne International Film Festival
War for real: drama & documentary
Rose Capp on MIFF’s Middle East program
Cinecrophilia
Matthew Clayfield celebrates the death of cinema
Hidden: a film for our time
Hamish Ford on Michael Haneke’s Hidden
In the pleasure dome
Erik Roberts on planetarium cinema
Magical, micro, experimental and underground
Anna Arabindan-Kesson at the 9th Revelation Film Festival
Matthew Barney: cinema under review
At ACMI Ben Convey reflects on the Barney impact
What the listener sees
Lisa Stefanoff talks with sound recordist & director David Tranter
+onscreen media arts
Contagious diseases, virulent truths
Media artist Gina Czarnecki shares some thoughts with Erin Brannigan
Knit two together
Shady Cosgrove visits Catherine Fargher's BioHome
New Wark vectors
Darren Tofts talks books with McKenzie Wark
Space voyages and neonatal nightmares
Varga Hosseini journeys into the art of Peter Hennessey
The art of mobile phone empathy
Esther Milne on Larissa Hjorth’s Portrait of the Mobile
Time sliced, perception shifted
Mike Leggett