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Introduction to "Place"Featuring Laurie Anderson
“Most of the work that I do as an artist, whether it’s music, or images or a story, begins with a place,” says renown multi-media performance and recording artist Laurie Anderson in the introductory segment she created for Art21. “A room, a road, a city, a country…these places become jumping off points for my imagination.”
Filmed on location in New York City and featuring talking and tropical billboards, the Statue of Liberty, a choreographed dance with red chinese fans, and a trip to a Japanese grocery store, Anderson’s whimsical work plays with scale, point of view, and virtual spaces to create a fanciful dreamscape. For this premiere opening segment, Anderson combines the roles of artists and host.
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Laurie Anderson creates large-scale theatrical works that combine a variety of media—music, video, storytelling, projected imagery, sculpture—in which she is an electrifying performer. As a visual artist, her work has been shown at the Guggenheim Museum, SoHo; as well as extensively in Europe, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. She has also released seven albums for Warner Brothers, including Big Science, featuring the song “O Superman,” which rose to number 2 on the British pop charts. In 1999, she staged Songs and Stories From Moby Dick, an interpretation of Herman Melville’s 1851 novel. She lives in New York.
“Most of the work that I do as an artist, whether it’s music, or images or a story, begins with a place.”
Laurie Anderson
