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Laurie Anderson
Called "America's multi-mediatrix" by Wired magazine and a "modern
renaissance artist and agent provocateur" by Philadelphia Daily News,
Laurie Anderson (born 1947 in Chicago, Illinois) is—in her work
as a performance artist as well as musician, poet, writer, and visual
artist—one of the most important artists of the later 20th
century.
Laurie Anderson graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in Art
History from Barnard College in 1969. In 1972 she received an M.F.A. in
sculpture from Columbia University. During the mid 1970s she toured
extensively, presenting her work in alternative performance spaces
throughout the United States and building a dedicated following. During
1983 she performed her United States in the United States and Europe,
and in 1986 released the film Home of the Brave. In 1987 she received
an Honorary Doctorate from Philadelphia College of the Arts, and in
1996 received honorary degrees from Cal Arts and the Pratt Institute.
In 1994 HarperPerennial published Ms. Anderson's Stories from The Nerve
Bible, and the early 1990s saw her present The Nerve Bible in
performance throughout the United States and Europe.
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Laurie Anderson was born
in Chicago in 1947. One of eight children, she studied the violin
and, while growing up, played in the Chicago Youth Symphony. She
graduated in 1969 from Barnard College in New York, and went on
to study at Columbia University, working toward a graduate degree
in sculpture. The art scene of the early 1970s fostered an experimental
attitude among many young artists in downtown New York that attracted
Anderson, and some of her earliest
performances
as a young artist took place on the street or in informal art spaces.
In the most memorable of these, she stood on a block of ice, playing
her violin while wearing her ice skates. When the ice melted, the
performance ended. Since that time, Anderson has gone on to create
large-scale theatrical works which 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 in SoHo, New York, as well as
extensively in Europe, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in
Paris. She has also released seven albums for Warner Bros., including
Big Science, featuring the song "O Superman," which rose
to number two 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.
Homepage: www.laurieanderson.com
You're The Guy I Want to Share My Money With (East Side Digital, 1981)
Big Silence (Warner Bros., 1982)
Mister Heartbreak (Warner Bros., 1983)
Home of the Brave (Warner Bros., 1986)
Strange Angels (Warner Bros., 1989)
Bright Red (Warner Bros., 1994)
Ugly One with the Jewels and Other Stories (Warner Bros., 1995)
Life on a String (Nonesuch/Elektra Records, 2001)
Homeland (Nonesuch / Elektra Records, 2010)
