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LAURIE ANDERSON
Concerts, performances, multimedia shows, exhibitions: an artist capable to redefined herself in every contest.
RIO DE JANEIRO - I in U is Laurie Anderson's first individual exhibition in Brazil.
The 31 artworks (installations, photos, drawings, music, and documentary films) were shown at both Centro Cultural do Branco do Brasil in São Paulo and Rio.
Anderson's oeuvre is impressive because it's innovative. NASA's first artist-in-residence couldn't but be a master in the deployment of media technology.
But to qualify anything as innovative makes no sense if it's not in relation to what existed beforehand, and this concept is key to understand why Anderson is a leading artist.
For instance, Handphone table is a table on whose surface you place your elbows while using your hands on your ears to listen to music that vibrates through
your body, which becomes the very medium of sound conduction. Analogous devices are used both in Talking Pillow and Listening Walls, whose scope is to engage
our audition in such a way that it functions as a tool to access sensual dreams.
Valuing our perception of sound with a strong visual appeal, Gray Rabbit is video installation with music by Lou Reed and autobiographic motives: the shifting
image projections on a large rectangular surface of shredded paper on the floor poignantly illustrate that life's transience is indeed a tremendous phenomenon.
Take a tour at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULXKaF-clNE
In alto Laurie Anderson
Sergio Nunes Melo
da I Quaderni di Nuova Scena Antica anno 3 n.2
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