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Tue 09 Sep 2007Reviews"Truth is truth" was projected on the back wall during Mark Carberry's performance of Knot. It seemed a through-thread in the evening's three works but was most tangled in Carberry's collaboration, which brought elements of improvisation as elliptical points spun out to create fractals on screen.In contrast, the live improvisation was stilted and machine won out over man. A clearer truth was found in the Love Spotters' Plaudit. Devoid of self-consciousness, the three members of Limerick's Garvey Centre found a purity of intention and realisation, however limited the ambition.