Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

Celebrate the legacy and vision of Australia’s much-loved arts publication in this extraordinary discussion and performance event. Unfolding over 5 hours, this continuous, informally-facilitated open conversation will evolve via chat, micro-performances and improvisations.

RealTime in real time charts the remarkable transformation of the art experience over the last quarter of a century and how we’ve responded to it as practitioners, audiences and writers. Join the RealTime Editors, writers from across Australia, artists and readers for this all-too-rare opportunity to drop in any time, stop the clock and reflect on where we’ve been, in phases of approximately the following durations:

1.00-2.00pm: What was that: 1994-2018? Active recall, telling moments
Share reveries, shocks & revelations: technological, cross-artform, cross-cultural & hybrid, relational, intellectual, sensory and perceptual.

2.00-3.00pm: The critic tested: putting change into words
Dialoguing with artists and readers, writers reflect on adapting to the demands on their knowledge and responsiveness made by mutating artforms and emergent issues.

3.00-4.00pm: RealTime and the place of the space
Prompted by visiting key moments from the Performance Space archive, this exchange gauges the critical role of contemporary art centres as homes for and agents of change.

4.00-4.20pm: Eat/drink/talk

4.20-6.00pm: The big picture 1994-2018, the real story?
In the face of art done over by politics, diminished reviewing and archival challenges, how deep, enduring and sustainable are the innovations and crosscultural engagements of 1994-2018? What to regret, what to celebrate?

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This event forms part of the Liveworks Festival of Experimental Arts at Carriageworks 18-28 October.

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (02) 8571 9111 or by email to admin@performancespace.com.au