Laurie Anderson

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Laura Phillips Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, composer, guitarist, and film producer whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects.

Anderson, who was trained in violin and sculpting, undertook a number of performance art commissions in New York during the 1970s, focusing on language, electronics, and graphic representation.

When her single "O Superman" debuted on the UK singles chart in 1981, she became more well-known outside of the art world.

Anderson was also a pioneer of electronic music and created several other items that she has used in her recordings and performance art shows.

In 1977, she made a tape-bow violin that uses magnetic tape on the bow rather than horsehair and a magnetic tape head in the bridge.

Anderson started developing a talking stick, a six-foot (1.8 m) long baton-like MIDI controller that can access and reproduce sounds from 1992 to 2013.

Early life and education

Anderson was born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, on June 5, 1947, the daughter of Mary Louise (née Rowland) and Arthur T. Anderson. She had seven siblings and attended the Art Institute of Chicago on weekends, and performed with the Chicago Youth Symphony.

She graduated from Glenbard West High School. She attended Mills College in California and graduated with a B.A. in 1969 from Barnard College. Magna cum lauded and Phi Beta Kappa, a scholar of art history, who explored art history. She obtained a Master's Degree in 1972. Columbia University's sculpture is on display.

In 1969, her first performance-art work, a symphony of automobile horns, was produced. Baloney Moccasins, George DiCaprio's underground comix, appeared in 1970. She worked as an art critic for magazines like Artforum and illustrated children's books in the early 1970s, the first of which was called "The Package," a mystery story told in pictures alone.

Personal life

She migrated to New York in 1966 and now lives in Tribeca. Anderson was Lou Reed's mate for 21 years, and he was the intimate partner of the musician. They were married in 2008 and stayed together for the next five years until his death from liver cancer.

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Career

Anderson appeared in New York in the 1970s. Duets on Ice, one of her most famous shows, involved her playing the violin and other cities around the world; the show ended only after the ice had melted away; she never stopped playing ice skates with the blades frozen into a block of ice. The 1977 compilation New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media features two early pieces, "New York Social Life" and "Time to Go," as well as works by Pauline Oliveros and others. A collection of audio works by various artists was included on Airwaves, two other pieces. Vision, a collection of artist's lectures that Crown Point Press also published as a set of six LPs, was also recorded by her.

Many of Anderson's early recordings have gone unreleased or were only available in limited quantities, such as her first single, "It's Not the Bullet that Kills You" (It's the Hole). The Kelly Solomon Gallery in New York City originally recorded "New York Social Life" and about a dozen others for use in an art installation that featured the various Anderson compositions. Peter Gordon on saxophone, Scott Johnson on guitar, Ken Deifik on harmonica, and Joe Kos on drums are among the musicians on these early recordings. In Anderson's retrospective book Stories from the Nerve Bible, photographs and accounts of many of these early performances were included.

Anderson made several more recordings during the 1970s, many of which were later released or included on compilations of avant-garde music, most notably in the case of New York poet John Giorno's Giorno, a young relative of Andy Warhol. William S. Burroughs, Philip Glass, Frank Zappa, Timothy Leary, Malcolm Goldstein, John Cage, and Allen Ginsberg appeared at the Nova Convention in 1978, a major conference that brought together many counter-culture personalities and up-and-coming avant-garde musical stars, including William S. Burroughs, Philip Glass, Frank Zappa, Timothy Leary, John Cage, John Cage, and Allen Ginsberg. In the late 1970s, she worked with comedian Andy Kaufman.

Anderson received an honorary doctorate from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1980. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts—Film in 1982. Anderson was awarded an honorary doctorate in the fine arts from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 1987.

Anderson made a name for herself in 1981 with the single "O Superman," which was released in a limited edition by B. George's One Ten Records, which eventually ranked second on the British charts in a limited quantity. Anderson's influx of orders from the United Kingdom (which was aided in part by British station BBC Radio 1's playlisting of the event) resulted in his signing of a seven-album contract with Warner Bros. Records, which re-released the single.

"O Superman" was part of a larger stage play titled United States and was included on the album Big Science. Anderson performed on the album You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With; Anderson performed one side of the double-LP set, with William S. Burroughs and John Giorno performing a side each, and the fourth side featured separate grooves for each artist prior to the release of Big Science. Mister Heartbreak and United States Live, the latter of which was a five-LP (and later, a four-CD) recording of her two-evening stage performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, was followed by back-to-back releases of her albums Mister Heartbreak and United States Live. On New Year's Day 1984, she appeared in a television special titled "Good Morning, Mr." produced by Nam June Paik broadcast on New Year's Day 1984. Orwell.

She appeared in and produced the soundtracks for the Spalding Gray films Swimming to Cambodia and Monster in a Box later in 1986. She also contributed to Robert Wilson's Alcestis at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during this period. After producing the short film What You Mean We? she appeared on PBS in 1987 and 1988. The year before, the series was released.

What You Mean We?

Anderson introduced a new character, "The Clone," a digitally enhanced masculine counterpart to Anderson who later "co-hosted" with her during her presenting stint on Alive from Off Center. Elements of The Clone were later integrated into Puppet Motel's titular "puppet" style. In that year, she appeared on Peter Gabriel's album So, as well as "This is the Picture (Excellent Birds).

The debut of Anderson's first post-Home of the Brave album, 1989's Strange Angels, was postponed for more than a year in order for Anderson to begin singing lessons. This was due to the album's being more vocal than her previous works. In 1989, the single "Babydoll" became a moderately popular on the Modern Rock Charts.

She appeared at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival in 1991 as a member of the jury. Anderson appeared in The Human Face, a BBC television documentary produced by artist-filmmakers Nichola Bruce and Michael Coulson. In this film about the face of art and science, Anderson was the host. When she first introduced concepts of the relationship between physiognomy and perception, her face was changed by latex masks and digital special effects. In the animated film The Rugrats Movie, she had a varied career in the early 1990s. Puppet Motel was a CD-ROM that was released in 1994, it was followed by Bright Red, co-produced by Brian Eno, and The Ugly One with the Jewels, another spoken-word collection. This was followed by an appearance on the 1997 charity single "Perfect Day."

Anderson appeared on the AIDS charity album Silencio=Muerte, which was produced by the Red Hot Company in 1996.

More than a decade was a long time before her next album was released. During this period, she wrote a supplement article on the cultural fabric of New York City for the Encyclopdia Britannica and produced a number of multimedia presentations, most notably one inspired by Moby-Dick's Songs and Stories from Moby Dick, 1999-2000). Anderson's research focuses on the effects of technology on human relations and communication.

Anderson and Lou Reed, whom she had encountered in 1992, began collaborating on a number of albums together in the 1990s. Reed appeared on Anderson's "In Our Sleep," "One Beautiful Evening," Anderson's Life on a String" and "Only an Expert" from Anderson's Homeland, which Reed also co-produced. Anderson starred on Reed's collaborative project "Call on Me" and "Rock Minuet" from Reed's Ecstasy and "Hang On to Your Emotions" from Reed's Set the Twilight Reeling's "Call on Me" and "Walk on Your Emotions."

Life on a String began in 2001, but by the time she signed a new deal with another Warner Music company, Nonesuch Records, she signed a new one. Life on a String was a collection of new works (including one song recalling her father's death) as well as Moby Dick's performances. She produced Don DeLillo's book The Body Artist on audiobook in 2001. In 2001, Anderson went on tour with a collection of her best-known musical works. One of these performances took place in New York City a week after the September 11, 2001, attacks, including a rendition of "O Superman." In early 2002 as the double CD Live in New York, this concert was first broadcast in New York.

Anderson was one of NASA's first artist-in-residence in 2003, which inspired her performance piece The End of the Moon. She held a number of themed shows and created a piece for Expo 2005 in Japan. Anderson lived in Russia in 2005—the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre and mission control—with The Arts Catalyst and participated in The Space Soon exhibition at the Roundhouse to reflect on her experiences. She was part of the team that organized the opening ceremonies for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. She coproduced with choreographer Trisha Brown and filmmaker Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo on the Paris Opera Ballet's acclaimed multimedia project O Zlozony/O Composite later this year. In December 2004, the ballet premiered at the Opera Garnier in Paris.

The Waters Reglitterized exhibition at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York City opened in 2005. The work, according to Sean Kelly's press release, is a diary of hopes and their literal interpretation as works of art. This work, whether she was re-experiencing or re-working her dreams while awake, uses dream language to explore the dream itself. Drawings, prints, and a high-definition video were among the finished pieces. The installation did not begin until October 22, 2005.

Anderson was given a Residency at the American Academy in Rome in 2006. Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film, directed by Ric Burns, was the first television program to be broadcast in September 2006 as part of the PBS American Masters collection. She performed a song in Plague Songs, a series of songs related to the ten Biblical plagues. Anderson appeared in Came So Far for Beauty, the Leonard Cohen tribute performance held in Dublin, Ireland, on October 4–5, 2006. Night Life, she published a book of drawings based on her dreams in November 2006.

Throughout May 2007, Homeland performed at small work-in-progress shows in New York, most notably at the Highline Ballroom, which was accompanied by a four-piece band with spontaneous lighting and video effects mixed live throughout Willie Williams and Mark Coniglio's appearances. On September 28-29, 2007, the European Parliament of the Homeland performed work in progress, including performances at the Melbourne International Arts Festival in Moscow; on September 28, 2008, a European tour of the Homeland performer appeared in Russia; at the Moscow Dom Muzyky concert hall on April 26, 2008. On June 14, 2008, the work was presented in Toronto, Canada, with husband Lou Reed, creating the "Lost Art of Conversation" a duet with vocals and guitar, with his ambling style contrasting with Anderson's tightly wound appearance. Anderson's Homeland Tour took place at several locations around the country, including at the Ferst Center for the Performing Arts in Atlanta, Georgia; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

At the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games in February, Laurie Anderson unveiled Delusion, a new dramatic work. The Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad and the Barbican Centre in London collaborated on this work. In March 2010, Anderson was Laureated with the Women's Project Theater Woman of Achievement Award. Anderson and Lou Reed co-curated the Vivid Live festival in Sydney, Australia, in May/June 2010. On June 22, her latest album Homeland was released. On the Late Show with David Letterman on July 15, 2010, she performed "Only an Expert" and "Gravity's Angel" was featured on Fox TV's "You Think You Can Dance the Same Day. She appears on several tracks from experimental jazz guitarist Colin Stetson's 2011 album New History Warfare Vol. 1. Judges are on a jury 2: Judges.

"Another Day in America" was Anderson's first theatrical performance. In January 2012, the first public showings of this work-in-progress took place in Calgary, Alberta, as part of Theatre Junction Grand's 2011–12 season and One Yellow Rabbit's annual arts festival, the High Performance Rodeo. In May 2012, Anderson was named Inaugural Distinguished Artist-In-Residence at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, USA. An exhibition of Laurie Anderson's work entitled "Letter of the Future" at the Samstag Museum in Adelaide, South Australia, was on display from 2001 to 2013. On opening night, Anderson performed her Duets on Ice outside the Saturday.

In 2013, Anderson received the Honorary Doctor of Arts from Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Anderson performed "The Language of the Future" and guest curator at the River to River Festival in New York City in June/July 2013. In November 2013, she was the featured Guest of Honor at the B3 Biennale of the Moving Image in Frankfurt, Germany. Anderson performed vocals on a re-recording of David Bowie's "Shining Star (Makin' My Love)," from Bowie's 1987 album Never Let Me Down. Carmen J. McNulty, a producer, invited Anderson and Bowie to attend the production, but she had no idea that they were related.

Landfall, the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, held in Los Angeles, Anderson and Kronos Quartet's Landfall received the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance on February 10, 2019. It was Anderson's first collaboration with Kronos Quartet and her first Grammy award, as well as her second Grammy nomination for Kronos. "Landfall juxtaposes lush electronics and traditional strings by Kronos, inspired by her experience with Hurricane Sandy," Nonesuch Records' "strong loss juxtaposes lush electronics and traditional strings by Kronos with Anderson's poignant stories of loss, from water-logged pianos to disappearing animal species to Dutch karaoke bars."

In which the reader flies through a huge building made of words, drawings, and tales, Chalkroom is Laurie Anderson and Taiwanese artist Hsin-Chien Huang's virtual reality work, in which the reader is transported through an enormous structure made of words, photos, and stories. On July 12, 2019, To the Moon, a collaboration with Hsin-Chien Huang, premiered at the Manchester International Festival. In a non-narrative setting, a 15-minute virtual reality artwork called To the Moon allows viewers to explore a moon that features donkey rides and garbage from Earth. A film that also documents the evolution of the new work.

Laurie Anderson was named the 2021 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University and delivered a series of six lectures titled Spending the War Without You: A Virtual History Through the Years.

Anderson organized a show on the second floor of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., dubbed "a non-retrospective retrospective of one of America's top, and majorly confounding, modern artists."

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