When the 47-year-old took the stage at Pavilion 28, in South Jakarta, it was the culmination of 34 years of practice.
Throughout the summer, the monument will function as a kind of village festival, or inner-city intellectual Woodstock, with lectures, concerts, recitals and art programs on the stages and pavilions that Mr. Hirschhorn and a paid crew of workers chosen from the Forest Houses have built over the last several weeks.
He's interviewing New Order's Bernard Sumner on stage at the pavilion tonight.
On the Pavilion stage there's no place for such subtlety with Flosstradamus.
Perhaps the most exciting performance took place on the smaller Pavilion stage, where the Japanese guitar legend Keiji Haino led a band called Nazoranai, with Oren Ambarchi and Stephen O'Malley, who is better known from his profound drone duo, Sunn O))).
On Sunday, after Kurt Vile's late afternoon set of folk-tinged indie rock finishes with him playing Stand Inside solo, Rüfüs Du Sol brings tropical house to the Pavilion stage.
During the festival there is a month of free dance instructions behind the glass doors of the pavilion stage and free skating instruction at the McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink.
Given the circumstances, it's a wonder Stevens made it onto the Pavilion stage at all, let alone ascended to such artistic heights.
The small California Pavilion Stage at the Festival of Books on Saturday was packed with people eager to talk about Cuba now that President Obama has opened the door for us to peek in.
Just tents and R.V.'s, a huge bonfire, a festive stage and a simple pavilion for cooking and gathering.
