ABSTRACT
Germaine Liu is a Toronto-based visual artist, performer/composer, and improviser. As a percussionist, she has worked with Anne Bourne, Matt Brubeck, Peggy Lee, John Oswald, Joe Sorbara, Scott Thomson, and many others. She studied percussion with John Goddard and Jesse Stewart during her undergraduate degree at the University of Guelph, and composition with David Mott while completing an MA in Music Composition at York University. Since 2008, Liu and video artist Nicholas Loess have been collaborating on multi-media projects; for Stone Sketch, Loess utilised his photographs and video to document Liu’s process and performance, while simultaneously attempting to provide a quotation (rather than a translation) of what was occurring musically and gesturally between Liu and the stones. Liu and Loess use their collaboration to explore the relationship between time, movement, music, and gestural relationship, and to have the images document and speak about the process, rather than position them as ends in themselves. These images were first displayed as part of a graphic score exhibition called Hearing-Visions-Sonores at the University of Guelph in 2009.
