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 July 22(Friday) - October 2(Sunday), 2005 Gallery A, B, 5F Lobby, Entrance Lobby
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| Artist's biography |
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photo: Peter Ross |
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| 1947 | Born in Chicago, Illinois,
began violin lesson at age 7
Became a member of the Chicago Youth Orchestra in1961
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| 1969 | Graduated Barnard College with honors in art history
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1970 | Had first solo exhibition at Barnard College,
majored in sculpture at Columbia University
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1972 | Graduated Columbia University
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In the early 70's she made sculpture, influenced by minimal art and conceptual art and wrote art reviews for various art magazine like Art Forum.
In 1972 she did performance "Car Horn Concert" that car horn was first used in musical performance.
In the late 70's she made film and did various performance using film and sensor, altered violin.
In 1980 She wrote a song "O Superman" that was released in an edition of 1,000 on 110 Records in New York. The song, broadcasted by British DJ, John Peel, became a hit on the London pop chart next year. She became a world renowned artist also in the field of popular music. In the middle and late 80's she did several large scale performances like Mister "Heartbreak" and "Empty Places". She also worked collaboratively with many musicians, filmmakers and choreographers among them Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno, and Wim Wenders. She made a concert film "Home of the Brave".
In the early 90's much of her work began to have a more politic edge and she did several pieces, "Stories from the Nerve Bible" and "The Speed of Darkness", that looked at violence, conflict and censorship.
In 1999 a large scale opera "Songs and Stories from Moby Dick" based on Herman Melville's novel etc.
Since 2000 her work in this century has been mainly music. She released "Life on a String", toured the United States and Europe. In 2002 She released a double concert CD "Live in New York" which contains a concert held in New York just after September 11, 2001 and premiered a new solo performance "Happiness". In 2004 she did performance "The End of the Moon", invited to a two year artist-in-residence program at NASA. In 2005 She also showed instalation "WALK" in a Japanese garden ,film work "Hidden Inside Mountains" , performance "10 postcards" as part of Expo 2005 Aichi"
Discography
2002
2001
2000
1995
1994
1989
1984
1982
1981
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"Laurie Anderson Live in New York",
Nonesuch Records
"Life on a String", Nonesuch Records
"Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology",
Rhino Records
"The Ugly One with the Jewels", Warner Brothers
"Bright Red", Warner Brothers
"Strange Angels", Warner Brothers
"Mister Heartbreak", Warner Brothers
"Home of the Brave", Warner Brothers
"United States Live", 4-CD box, Warner Brothers
"Big Science", Warner Brothers
"O Superman", 110 Records, New York
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July 23(Sat.)
Concert