Word: disturbance
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...DISTURB...
Demonstrating his extremely inventive use of video, Tony Oursler's sculptures simultaneously fascinate and disturb. For the Biennial, he presents his most restrained and sophisticated work yet, three-dimensional glass ovals resting on metal poles or the floor, on to which he projects video images of talking heads. They stare at the viewer and blankly recite children's variations of songs commonly heard in school yards: "Joy to the world, the teacher's dead; we barbecued her head." Yet monotone delivery and eerie visual presentation transform these rhymes into disturbing alien utterances. We watch both mesmerized and repulsed, while...
Sohoni said the disruption did not disturb the performers, who are fifth- and sixth-graders from Cambridge public schools...
Greider concludes that by staying its present course, the world will experience a series of "wrenching calamities." This may be overwrought, but the evidence of global dislocation he presents is sufficient to disturb even a committed believer in the economic revolution sweeping the globe today. --By Richard Hornik
...flat piano concerto, K. 271, is Mozart's best such early work. It shows a surprising willingness to disturb the conventionally perfect balance between soloist and orchestra and is driven mostly by the pianist, who must have great endurance. Haefliger, who played with an accompanist's ear when necessary, gracefully allowed Laredo to rescue the concerto from merely unilateral appeal...