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“I tell stories”: Artist and pioneer of the avant-garde Laurie Anderson on her unique work and life – 60 Minutes
Laurie Anderson is an artist whose function defies any quick description. She’s a pioneer of the avant-garde, but as we learned, that isn’t going to start to describe what she generates. Her function just isn’t offered in galleries. It is experienced by audiences who arrive to see her complete: singing, telling tales, and playing unusual violins of her individual creation. She won a Grammy for a chamber audio album about Hurricane Sandy and remains a single of America’s most strange and visionary artists. A key exhibition of her function is on exhibit at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. Females and gentlemen, Laurie Anderson. She’s played electronic drums on…
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In Her Experimental Hirshhorn Retrospective, Laurie Anderson Proves That She’s Still the Artist of Our Virtual Moment
There may be no better preparation for the looming corporatized “metaverse” than the current slew of immersive art shows. You can meld with the paintings of Van Gogh or Monet as they are projected at gargantuan scale over the walls and floors of enormous galleries. You can see yourself splintered hundreds of times in the ever-proliferating versions of Yayoi Kusama’s infinity rooms. Or you can visit the Laurie Anderson exhibition currently on view at the Hirshhorn Museum. Not exactly a retrospective, “The Weather” is a reminder that Anderson has been at the immersive trade for a very long time. Her multimedia extravaganzas incorporate poetry, music, film, visual projections and dance…
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