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Sep 1, 2024 · Laurie Anderson (b. 1947) is an American performance artist, composer, and writer whose work explores a remarkable range of media and subject matter. Among her most well-known works is the single ‘O Superman.’. From 2002 to 2004 she was the artist in residence at NASA.
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Oct 25, 2021 · Before she became famous with her spooky electronic single “O Superman” 40 years ago, Laurie Anderson had been a successful conceptual and performance artist, who had studied with the artist...
Laurie Anderson. Laura Phillips " Laurie " Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, [2][3] musician and filmmaker whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. [3] Initially trained in violin and sculpting, [4] Anderson pursued a variety of performance art projects in New York during the 1970s ...
Jun 2, 2022 · Laurie Anderson is a renowned — and daring — creative pioneer. Known primarily for her multimedia presentations, she has cast herself in roles as varied as visual artist, composer, poet,...
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Laurie Anderson was born in the Glenn Ellyn suburb of Chicago in 1947. She was originally named Laura Phillips, and grew up in a family of ten with four brothers and three sisters. At the age of five, Anderson began studying classical violin. As she explains, "All the kids were more or less forced to play an instrument. And some of them had absolut...
While studying biology at Mills College in Oakland California, the artist found herself producing graphs using chlorophyll she had extracted from plants. This process reminded her how much she enjoyed painting, and rekindled her ambition to pursue it. In 1966, she transferred to Art History at Barnard College in New York, the city to which she had ...
Laurie Anderson's success was solidified in 1981 when her self-produced single 'O Superman', an eight-minute track from the larger performance work United States, rose to number two in the UK Singles Chart. The record became a surprise hit after it was championed by DJ John Peel on his nationally broadcast late-night music show. Anderson remembers ...
Anderson is an artist who enjoys being challenged and shocking herself out of complacency. In July 2001 she worked at McDonald's, an experience pursued as a result of her personal directive to 'escape this trap of just experiencing what I expect". She explains that "I decided maybe I would just try to put myself in places where I don't know what to...
Laurie Anderson's career spans four decades and her contributions to the histories of performance art, experimental music, contemporary visual art and installation have received wide recognition. Her work represents a synthesis between the concerns of the different mediums of music, visual art and performance, and reflects the changing nature of sp...
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- Glenn Ellyn, Illinois, USA
Laurie Anderson is one of America’s most reknowned – and daring – creative pioneers. Known primarily for her multimedia presentations, she has cast herself in roles as varied as visual artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, electronics whiz, vocalist, and instrumentalist.
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Dec 8, 2023 · The first thing you notice about Laurie Anderson is her voice. Straight-forward and matter-of-fact, folksy and familiar, it is the voice of Middle America, earnestly asking what is happening to America. Like many people, I first encountered Anderson’s voice in the song “O Superman.”
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