chinese pop
By Dana Lorien Fey
Staff Writer

Magdalen Hsu-Li is Chinese-American, an artist, an activist, a bisexual, and a feminist. She is also going to be live in the Kellogg Center living room tonight.

On February 23, International Week will end with the 8 p.m. performance of the very talented Hsu-Li.

According to James Gignac, Union Board president, this is not a show to miss. Aside from the talent that has won her various awards, fellowships, and grants; Hsu-Li's work is infused with a message of multiculturalism and diversity. "Her music has a political edge to it," Gignac said, who had previously viewed her performance at a National Association for Campus conference in October 1999. "I thought her music was very powerful and thought-provoking."

Her music is somewhere in the vicinity of the rock/pop/alternative genre. "She is folksy and she reminds me a bit of the Indigo Girls," said Alexis Snyder, Women's Center student assistant.

In 1997, Hsu-Li founded Femme Vitale-The Seattle Women's Music and Arts Coalition. The women's art advocacy association hosts live music, performance art, and juried art exhibitions.

Hsu-Li was featured on the 1999 Black-A-Palooza Tour and was nominated for "Best Out Song" at the Gay and Lesbian American Music Awards in 1999. She also hosts workshops on topics as diverse as the influence of Asian art on the western world, on Asian women in the arts, and gender and race-based identity.

All of the aspects of her work that make Hsu-Li unique have those familiar with her art looking forward to her performance.

"It is exciting that she is coming to Albion because her music expands the forum in which we talk about diversity," Snyder said.