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...typically disarming work from Liu, 41, whose photos and installations speak eloquently of his shift to Australia in 1990. "There are no rules how to move," he says. "That's been my experience - how to make the negotiation? How to make it workable?" With recent work taking center stage at the Art Gallery of New South Wales' new Asian galleries and the Adelaide Biennial, Liu has undoubtedly succeeded. He and his generation of Chinese artists have shown how cultural outsiders can become Australian art world insiders...
...intimate warmth of the basement, three different groups quietly waited for what was supposed to be a short period of time as the stage was set up. After just over half an hour, the delayed show finally began with the one-man band, Avi Varma...
Later, at 10:15, Music-167: The Band, a group consisting exclusively of Harvard students, took the stage to give an unusual performance, inspired by the music class, “Music 167: Electro-Acoustic Composition,” which the group of six is currently taking. The band’s disjointed set included a variety of seemingly mismatched musical instruments that ranged from a classical violin to the primitive, rhythmic pounding of a fist (this same fist seconds before had also gracefully danced on a laptop’s keyboard...
Perhaps fortunately, the group to come next was entirely different from Music-167. The Noelles, a group originally from Washington D.C., performed a series of lively rock songs with melodies recalling the cheerfulness of The Beach Boys’ tunes. With its undeniable stage presence and pep, the band boosted the show’s party energy to its highest (granted, this may have been easily accomplished feat after the mellowness of the two preceding acts...
When the lights first dimmed, the aptly-titled dance “Emergency” (choreographed by Jetta G. Martin ’05) hit the stage. Against a screen backdrop that urgently reflected a stark red light, maroon-sleeved dancers crowded the stage in movements that were alternately well-coordinate and disjointed. Whether or not the assumption and loss of uniformity was deliberate, the entire play proceeded and matched seamlessly the oblong and stacatta-driven notes of the soundtrack composition (written impressively by Patrick J. Bradley ’05). Although the dancers’ lack of coordination...