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| Angelika |
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Thank you lots!
This is how the official image looks like:
Premiere of Delusion:
2/16/2010 - 2/21/2010
Vancouver Playhouse
600 Hamilton Street, Vancouver
From the website http://www.vancouver2010.com:
"Conceived as a series of short mystery plays, Delusion jump-cuts between the everyday and the mythic. Combining violin, electronic puppetry, music and visuals, Delusion is full of nuns, elves, golems, rotting forests, ghost ships, archaeologists, dead relatives and unmanned tankers. It tells its story in the colourful and poetic language that has become Anderson's trademark. Inspired by the breadth of Balzac, Ozu and Laurence Sterne, and employing a series of altered voices and imaginary guests, Anderson tells a complex story about longing, memory and identity. At the heart of Delusion is the pleasure of language and a terror that the world is made entirely of words." |
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| Gravity Gabriel Gabo |
| Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 12:51 am |
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L.A. a total artist.
Wonder what her literary influences are or were in this project.
I know she reads from Melville´s MOby Dick to Pyncon´s Gravity´s Rainbow but...For Delusion...what were her sources...How does she gets material, inspiration...
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| citizenx |
| Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 4:56 pm |
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I don't know if Laurie herself reads this forum, but I thought I would post this letter from me anyway.
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Dear Laurie:
I have been a fan of yours ever since I first picked up a 12” record of “O Superman/ Walk The Dog” 29 years ago in a store in my small and somewhat conservative city of Victoria, British Columbia.
I was very pleased to see that you will be performing “Delusion” in Vancouver as part of the Cultural Olympiad, which in turn is part of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games being held in and around that city. I know that it will be a wonderful experience for the audience and I hope you will feel welcome in the city for the week that you will be there.
The 2010 Winter Games, and the expense associated with them, have proven to be an issue of great controversy in this province. The budget for the Cultural Olympiad, recently cut by 20% from $25 million to $20 million due to the Organizing Committee’s cost overruns in other areas, forms about eight-tenths of one percent of the estimated cost of $2.5 billion for the entire Games (including almost a billion dollars for security alone). It's a small amount, very near zero. But we’re happy about it, not only because it’s allowing the display of a great deal of talent and creativity, but also because it could just as easily have been exactly zero.
Let me explain: until last year, the British Columbia arts and culture sector had received about $47 million per year in funding from the provincial government. This is about one-twentieth of one percent of the entire provincial budget, almost the least arts funding of any Canadian province. But the government has announced that this $47 million will be reduced to about $2.65 million by 2012. This is almost a 95% cut.
No other province has cut arts funding during this recession. Many provinces have actually increased funding, because they understand (as I know you do) the compelling social and economic arguments for it. But after the Cultural Olympiad is over, there will be very little left in the cupboard for British Columbian art and artists.
I think it’s certain that the local media would like to talk to you during your stay in Vancouver, and would appreciate it very much if you would simply mention that you are aware of and concerned about this situation. I think it would greatly encourage the people of this province who are doing their best to fight these cuts.
Thank you for your years of hard work, and for the pleasure your art has given me.
Sincerely,
Brian
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| nyifica |
| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 3:49 pm |
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Now the voice of authority has got a real name! 
Q&A with Laurie Anderson
(from Vancouver2010.com)
In Delusion, a new piece commissioned by the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad, musician, composer and multimedia artist Laurie Anderson will use mystery plays, photography, electronic puppetry and newly composed music to “explore mythic and everyday worlds.” Driven by her poetic use of language and inspired by everything from the mystic origins of the Russian space program to theories of time and speed, the show is set to be yet another in Anderson’s groundbreaking and envelope-pushing repertoire. (It also features a fictional historian and social commentator named Fenway Bergamot and his spotted dog.) Along with special musical guests Eyvind Kang and Colin Stetson, Delusiongets its world premiere February 16 at the Vancouver Playhouse.
Q: In an early description of Delusion, you talk about how language has the ability to both create and decreate the world. Can you tell me more about that?
A: First of all, I’ve never talked about this thing [Delusion], and I haven’t finished it yet. (laughs) I haven’t found a way to finish it yet. There are a couple of things missing from the picture and I’m just starting to figure out what they are now.
I began by writing a number of plays, two plays, in an attempt to get away from the voice I usually use. I wanted to bring some conflict into it. That was the beginning of trying to tell a story from a couple of different sides, which of course, in answer to your question, starts making you think, “What is the story?” The story is really the narrator or the writer. And when someone tells you a story, whether it’s Obama or your brother, you’re going to read the thing really differently.
This is a whole series of interlocked stories and delusions. There are many, many different ways to tell them, and in many different types of voices. It’s not so much deconstructing the story as changing the voice in which they’re told. I’ve realized that the same exact words could be on a page and they could be in a live situation, or in a conversation, they could be the saddest thing you’ve ever heard, or really callous, or carefree. You can attach a whole lot of things to that.
Q: Where did Fenway Bergamot come from?
A: I don’t know quite how this voice, this filter, got a name. It is an "audio-drag” filter that I’ve used since 1978, when I first had to be a master of ceremonies at a [William S.] Burroughs event. I thought it would be fun to sound like a distracted old coot. Recently, it’s had a more melancholic ring to it, and I’ve been thinking that it almost sounds like a person.
It was Lou [Reed] who decided to call this character Fenway Bergamot, and as soon as that filter had a name it was almost like I could do something different emotionally with that filter. It didn’t have to be just a joke. So I began to be able to use words in a different way with that instead of just being joke-y. I used to call it “the voice of authority” but now it doesn’t have much authority left. It frees me to use language in a more cut-up way.
Q: In an old interview, you said you like to keep things simple, that you don’t want everything to get too complicated regardless of the whole multimedia aspect of your show. You seem to use such a complex mix of elements — your violin and puppetry and visuals. Do you think it’s easier to get at simple truths with complex methods?
A: If I just minded my own advice… (laughs) Not necessarily. The only way to get there is to try to pay attention to them. Although I do have to say that one of the ways I tried to get to those things this time was through images. I sat for a long time looking at stuff and just listening to sounds. Not one single word. I thought, “I really enjoy this show. I really like it just like this,” and for awhile I was just going to have zero words. Then I thought, “Wait a second. I’ve never done that.” But it was really, really tempting. Now, in a way, I’m just trying to pare the words down even further, but some of them don’t like that. Some of them have to be the shaggy dog story they started out as. Paring them down, they become really silly. I’m in a bit of a dilemma right at the moment with some of this stuff.
When you make something from absolutely nothing, there’s no template for it, and there’s no way to say that something isn’t what you wanted it to be, because that was just a vague idea. I’m not making shoes. I don’t know what I’m making. A lot of time I’ve started out to make one thing and I’ve ended up making something utterly different. I would begin writing a piece of music and it would become a drawing. I’m talking really different. I’m in a state of insecurity at the moment.
Q: Could that be why, when some people describe you, they use words like “innovator”? That you have this ability to bring things from nothing into existence?
A: Everyone can do that if they want to. I’m convinced of that, that’s for sure. That everyone can’t is a bit of a myth, in the sense that absolutely everyone can sing. I think people are taught that they can’t do stuff way too early.
I just wish we had a national music day like they do in France, when everybody sings and it doesn’t really matter if it’s not all in tune. That’s part of why I’m bothered that half of the things I do are amateur in a way, in a lot of ways. The animation I do is kind of amateur, the orchestration is pretty amateur, but I give them all a shot and I try not to worry that it doesn’t look very pro.
Q: In a 2007 interview on Swedish television you asked a rhetorical question about if the world needs another multimedia show. Does it?
A: Ha. Good question. At the time, I probably was going to do another one anyway. Needed or not, I might just have fun doing it. I don’t know… I wish I knew what the world needed. If I knew, I would try to contribute. But I have no idea what it needs, so I just try to think of something else that would be interesting to do. |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 4:35 pm |
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| Thank you for that interview Nyifica, really liked it. |
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| nyifica |
| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 6:06 am |
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Bettina, it's my pleasure, too I especially liked the part with the confiscated talking stick.
Now here's another article with additional details about the show. Seems to me that it's going to be more multimedia than initially planned... (Click to the title of the article to read it)
Challenging delusion
Mix of serious wildness, fun in artist's play |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:22 pm |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 3:28 pm |
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Hey,
was somebody there and would like to give us her / his impressions?
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| Uma |
| Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 5:06 am |
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Laurie (among others) in Q LIVE in Vancouver at CBC Radio, listen to podcast on Friday Febr 19th !!!
http://www.cbc.ca/q/
about 13 min's long interview w Laurie (25:25 into the program)
Feb 19: Q's in Vancouver with a live show featuring comedian Brent Butt, musician/performance artist Laurie Anderson and theatre creator Robert LePage. PLUS performances from Stars and Mother Mother.
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