Laurie Anderson

Doors @ 7:00 pm
Continuing her groundbreaking work with voice filters, story telling, and music Another Day in America will feature Anderson's stories about life in contemporary America. Politics, desire, portraits of cities and people combine with Anderson's hallucinatory use of language to make up an epic description of the current American landscape. "Politicians are essentially story tellers. They describe the world as it is and also as they think it should be. As a fellow story teller, it seems… Show more like a really good time to think about how words can literally create the world." Illusion, memory and the shifting states of American culture have been Anderson's subjects since the late '70's.
Another Day in America will take on the volatile present. The evening will feature electric violin, keyboards and electronics. Solo violin pieces such as the Grammy nominated Flow from Homeland will mix with fuller electronic soundscapes to create an intimate look into the song writing style that has made Anderson one of the most original American song writers. Laurie Anderson is one of America's most renowned and iconoclastic pioneers. She is best known for her multimedia productions and innovative use of technology. As writer, director, visual artist and vocalist she has created a large and unique body of work that spans the worlds of theater, art and experimental music.
Her recording career, launched by O Superman in 1981 includes the soundtrack to her feature film Home of the Brave, Life on A String and many others. Anderson's live shows range from simple spoken word to elaborate multi- media stage works such as Songs and Stories for Moby Dick. Anderson has published seven books and her visual work has been presented in major museums around the world.
In 2002 Anderson was appointed the first artist-in-residence of NASA which culminated in her 2004 touring solo performance The End of the Moon. Recent projects include a series of audio visual installations and a high defini- tion film Hidden Inside Mountains, created for World Expo 2005 in Aichi Japan. In 2007 she received the presti- gious Dorthy and Lillian Gish Prize for her outstanding contribution to the arts. In 2008 she completed a two-year worldwide tour with a group of musicians performing the critically acclaimed Homeland which was released by Nonesuch records in 2010. Her newest multimedia performance work Delusion debuted at the Vancouver Winter Olympics in early 2010 and has toured internationally. Current projects include a sound garden in Basel Switzer- land and a large retrospective of her visual work which was presented most recently in Rio and Sao Paolo. Her newest visual work Forty Nine Days in the Bardo will be presented in Philadelphia in the fall of 2011.

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