Keep on dancing … German tourists visit Dance-O-Matic, an art installation set up in a cleared plot of land in the city's CBD. Photo: James Brickwood Everything looks normal. Driving in from the not-distant airport to the centre of Christchurch along a sparsely trafficked road in late summer, you see trim houses and a sluggish little river winding through a lot of grass and big green trees. Then the normal movement stops. We enter a zone of emptiness and immobility. The few cars on the road all stop. We wait at endless red lights for no traffic to pass. The driver, an elderly Korean who many years ago followed his sons out when they came to study at the University of Canterbury's engineering...
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