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.

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