Laurie Anderson
- Introduction
- Laura Phillips Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained in violin and sculpting, Anderson pursued a variety of performance art projects in New York during the 1970s, focusing particularly on language, technology, and visual imagery. She became more widely known outside the art world when her single "O Superman" reached number two on the UK singles chart in 1981. She also starred in and directed the 1986 concert film Home of the Brave.Anderson is a pioneer in electronic music and has invented several devices that she has used in her recordings and performance art shows. In 1977, she created a tape-bow violin that uses recorded magnetic tape on the bow instead of horsehair and a magnetic tape head in the bridge. In the late 1990s, she collaborated with Interval Research to develop an instrument she called a "talking stick", a six-foot (1.8 m) long baton-like MIDI controller that can access and replicate sounds.Anderson met singer-songwriter Lou Reed in 1992, and she was married to him from April 2008 until his death in 2013.
- Wikidata
- Q235066
- Introduction
- American musician and artist, New York.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Female
- Roles
- Artist, Writer, Musician, Performance Artist, Sculptor
- Name
- Laurie Anderson
- Ulan
- 500070794
Exhibitions
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Studio Visit: Selected Gifts from Agnes Gund
Apr 29–Jul 22, 2018
MoMA
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Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends
May 21–Sep 17, 2017
MoMA
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FORTY
Jun 19–Aug 28, 2016
MoMA PS1
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Stranger than Fiction: Art of Our Time
Feb 1–May 5, 2014
MoMA
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MoMA Media Lounge
Feb 29, 2012–Jul 8, 2013
MoMA
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Laurie Anderson has
28 exhibitionsonline.
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Laurie Anderson Self-Playing Violin 1974
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Laurie Anderson It's not the bullet that kills you - it's the hole 1977
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Laurie Anderson O Superman 1981
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Various Artists, Harry Anderson, Laurie Anderson, Charles A. Arnold Jr., John Ashbery, Bern Boyle, Lucinda Childs, Jane Comfort, R. Crumb, Dan Dailey, Jimmy DeSana, Evergon, Sandi Fellman, Benno Friedman, April Greiman, Martha Holt, James Hong, Betsey Johnson, Sonia Katchian, Christopher Knowles, Robert Kushner, Stephanie Brody Lederman, Sol LeWitt, Jacqueline Livingston, Joan Livingstone, David Lusby, Joan Lyons, Joseph Masheck, Judith McWillie, Joan Nelsen, Bea Nettles, Jayme Odgers, Richard Olson, Kingsley Parker, Harvey Pekar, Lucio Pozzi, Don Rodan, Martha Rosler, Michael Sorkin, Soul Artists, Stanley Stellar, Michelle Stuart, Benedict Tisa, Curtis Van Buren, Wenda Von Weise, Philip Warner, Robert Wilson Artifacts at the End of a Decade 1981
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Laurie Anderson O Superman 1981
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Laurie Anderson O Superman 1981
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Laurie Anderson O Superman 1981
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Various Artists, Laurie Anderson, John Giorno, William S. Burroughs You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With, 1981
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Laurie Anderson Let X = X 1982
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Laurie Anderson Big Science 1982
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Laurie Anderson Sharkey's Day 1984
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Laurie Anderson What You Mean We? 1986
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Laurie Anderson Home of the Brave 1986
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Laurie Anderson Strange Angels 1989
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Laurie Anderson Personal Service Announcements 1990
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Laurie Anderson Personal Service Announcement: TV Lunch 1990
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Laurie Anderson Personal Service Announcement: National Anthem 1990
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Laurie Anderson Personal Service Announcement: National Debt 1990
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Laurie Anderson Personal Service Announcement: Military Research 1990
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Laurie Anderson Personal Service Announcement: Women and Money 1990
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Laurie Anderson Personal Service Announcement: Jerry Rigging 1990
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Laurie Anderson Carmen 1991
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Laurie Anderson Hearring (for Parkett no. 49) 1997
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Laurie Anderson, Douglas Gordon, Jeff Wall, Silvia Bächli, Various Artists Parkett no. 49 1997
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