Laurie Anderson

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Laurie Anderson , actually Laura Philips Anderson , (born June 5, 1947 in Glen Ellyn , Illinois ) is an American performance artist , musician and film director .

life and work

After her high school Accounts in her hometown of Anderson initially enrolled at Mills College in Oakland ( California ), and then moved to the New York Barnard College , where she successfully studying art history graduated. She then continued her studies at Columbia University , where she graduated in 1972 with a Master of Fine Arts .

Laurie Anderson (1986)

Anderson had her first performances in the 1970s. In 1977 she developed the Viofonograph , a violin with a mounted 7 ″ single over which she stroked the violin bow. She became known to a wider public in 1981 with her eleven-minute single O Superman (For Massenet) , with which she reached number 2 on the British singles chart. The song was a reaction to the Iran-Contra affair .

In Germany in 1989 she presented almost all of the songs and the performance in German on her Strange Angels tour for the album of the same name.

Anderson wrote an essay for the Encyclopædia Britannica to supplement the entry there on New York City .

Laurie Anderson during her performance Homeland (2007)

From 1999 she toured with the stage project Songs And Stories For Moby Dick , which included a multimedia presentation. Mike Figgis filmed five shows at London's Barbican Theater, which were performed in May 2000. Life On A String , which was released in August 2001, contains individual tracks from the tour: One White Whale , The Island Where I Come From and Pieces and Parts . A week after the September 11, 2001 attacks , she gave a concert that was released in 2002 under the title Live at Town Hall New York City Sept 19-20, 2001 . She was also one of 4,000 American artists who protested the Bush administration's war plans in the New York Times a year after September 11, 2001 .

During her career she has worked with Andy Kaufman , William S. Burroughs , Peter Gabriel , Jean-Michel Jarre , John Cage , Philip Glass , Michel Waisvisz and Roma Baran , among others .

On April 12, 2008, Anderson married Lou Reed , with whom she also had an artistic relationship. Both met in Munich in 1992 and had been in a relationship since 1995 . Anderson lives in New York . There she lives in a town apartment on West 11th Street in Greenwich Village and has a second home with a recording studio between Springs and Amagansett, northeast of East Hampton , which she and her husband bought in 2009. Another recording studio has housed her loft at 530 Canal Street since 1979 , which has been her home since 1975.

In 2015 she made the film Heart of a Dog , which was shown in German cinemas in spring 2016. In it she dealt with the death of her mother, the death of her husband (2013) and that of her dog against the background of social developments after September 11, 2001. On November 8, 2015, before a screening of the film in the Swedenborgian Church of San Francisco , There she “married” Sophie Calle in the manner of a performative happening .

In 2016, Anderson was named to the competition jury of the 73rd Venice International Film Festival .

Laurie Anderson in Times Square (2016)

Exhibitions

Discography

  • 1981: You Are the Guy I Want to Share My Money With (with John Giorno and William S. Burroughs)
  • 1982: Big Science
  • 1983: United States Live (5-LP box set )
  • 1984: Mister Heartbreak
  • 1986: Home of the Brave (Soundtrack)
  • 1989: Strange Angels
  • 1994: Bright Red
  • 1995: The Ugly One with the Jewels (live, reading with music)
  • 2000: Talk Normal - The Laurie Anderson Anthology (Compilation)
  • 2001: Life on a String
  • 2002: Live at Town Hall New York City Sept 19-20, 2001
  • 2010: Homeland
  • 2015: Heart of a Dog (Soundtrack)
  • 2017: Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet : Landfall ( Nonesuch Records )
  • 2019: Laurie Anderson / Tenzin Choegyal / Jesse Paris Smith: Songs from the Bardo

Filmography

multimedia

  • 1995: Puppet Motel (CD-ROM with Hsin-Chien Huang)

Performances

  • 1999: Songs and Stories from Moby Dick (Some songs can be found on Life on a String .)

Awards and nominations

Web links

Commons : Laurie Anderson  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Laurie Anderson Biography (1947-) . Retrieved April 23, 2016 from filmreference.com
  2. ↑ a b Mark David: Lou and Laurie Hightail it to the Hamptons . On August 21, 2009 on variety.com
  3. ↑ Amy Handy: Artist's Biographies - Laurie Anderson . In: Randy Rosen, Catherine C. Brower (eds.): Making Their Mark - Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970–1985 . Abbeville Press, New York 1989, ISBN 0-89659-959-0 . Pp. 237-238
  4. ^ Philip Nel: The Record . On December 16, 2010 on philnel.com
  5. ^ A b Lars Kilian: Laurie Anderson - Live At Town Hall In New York City (2002) (2CD) . On May 19, 2008 on lars-kilian.de
  6. ^ Encyclopædia Anderson . July 16, 2001 on newyorker.com
  7. ↑ Laurie Anderson's Songs and Stories From Moby Dick | 2014 . From hollywood.com. Retrieved April 23, 2016
  8. ↑ Nikolai B. Forstbauer: "People, read Moby Dick" . On May 21, 2015 on stuttgarter-nachrichten.de
  9. ^ Barbara Hoffman: Visit the cafe where Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed dined weekly . On April 12, 2015 on nypost.com
  10. ↑ Steve Helling: Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson Wed . On April 25, 2008 on people.com
  11. ↑ Phillip Lopate: Laurie Anderson Tells Phillip Lopate How She Finished Her Film After Lou Reed's Death . On October 12, 2015 on indiewire.com
  12. ↑ Laurie Anderson: For Lou Reed . October 31, 2013 on easthamptonstar.com
  13. ↑ Nicki Donato: Off the Market: Lou Reed Settles in East Hampton, More! . On August 5, 2009 at hamptons.curbed.com
  14. ↑ James Fanelli: Lou Reed Leaves West Village and Hamptons Homes to Laurie Anderson ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On November 4, 2013 on dnainfo.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dnainfo.com
  15. ↑ Jennifer Allen: The Anderson Tapes . February 14, 1983 in New York Magazine , Vol. 16, No. 7. p. 18 ( online )
  16. ^ Will Hermes: Love Goes to Buildings on Fire - Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever . Faber and Faber, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-86547-980-7 . P. 298 ( online )
  17. ^ Ulrich Kriest: Heart of a Dog . In: Filmdienst , 6/2016. ( online , accessed April 23, 2016)
  18. ↑ Leah Garchik: Laurie Anderson and artist Sophie Calle say 'I do' in SF . On November 12, 2015 on sfchronicle.com
  19. ^ Chronicle April 28, 1997
  20. ↑ BEN: The prices of the B3 - Review - The prices of the B3 Biennale 2013 . Retrieved April 23, 2016 from b3biennale.com
  21. ↑ grammy.com: 61st Annual GRAMMY Awards (2018)
personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Laurie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anderson, Laura Philips (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American performance artist and musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Glen Ellyn , Illinois , United States