'The Record of the Time' is the first large-scale exhibition in Ireland of American performance artist, musician, poet, writer and visual artist Laurie Anderson. Now showing at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition comprises over 80 works, including installation, photography, drawings and art objects which date from the early 1970s to the present.
After the exhibition: appreciative words from
* multimedia artist Noel Sheridan (he mentions Laurie as a "starchild who's come from another place"),
* comedian Kevin Gildea ("for me, [Laurie is like] a very human kid, a kid playing with such enthusiasm, even the walls [of the exhibition room] were covered with writing, it was like a child's playroom") and
* poet Catherine Ann Cullen ("Laurie Anderson is totally accessible")
NB: the video requires RealPlayer.
_________________ "got to keep the loonies on the path"
Click to the url for a video of both Laurie and Lou excitedly (!) talking about their future curatorship of a two-week-long pan-arts festival ('Vivid Live') at the Sydney Opera House in May/June 2010.
Joined: 19 Mar 2009Posts: 165Location: Budapest, Hungary
Fenway on video!!
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Nonesuch Launches Laurie Anderson "Homeland" Video Series Featuring Her Alter Ego, Fenway Bergamot
Homeland, Laurie Anderson's forthcoming Nonesuch release and her first studio album in nearly a decade, is due out one month from today, on June 22. To count down the weeks till then, Nonesuch Records will release one short video clip featuring Anderson's male alter ego, Fenway Bergamot, every Tuesday now through release day at nonesuch.com/media.
In these clips, Bergamot, who can be heard on the Homeland track "Another Day in America" and seen both on the album cover and in its DVD documentary "Homeland: The Story of the Lark," muses on various topics related to the album and its take on contemporary American culture. The documentary and these weekly clips were directed by filmmaker Braden King.
In today's inaugural clip, titled "The Crash," Bergamot revisits the early days of the financial meltdown of 2008. Here, he invokes a classic film trope to warn listeners of the impending doom, exclaiming: "There's trouble out at the mine!" Here it straight from Bergamot at nonesuch.com/media, and head back each week through June 22 for more.
Joined: 19 Mar 2009Posts: 165Location: Budapest, Hungary
Press conference at the Montréal Jazz Festival: Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed and John Zorn performed their 'usual' freestyle improvisation together on July 2nd. Here Laurie and Lou talk about how they manage to blend their different musical backgrounds and how it's going to work altogether, and later Laurie mentions a sweet thing: Lolabelle, her musically talented rat terrier is working on a Christmas album (!!):
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum
powered by phpBB
//
tweaked version of Ad Infinitum template by Mike Lothar
(Though IMHO the backing vocalist trio does not really fit too well)