LAURIE TO APPEAR AS SPECIAL GUEST WITH CHIRGILCHIN IN SAN FRANCISCO, NOV. 25-26, 2006
November 22, 2006
Laurie will appear as a special guest with Master Throat Singers from Tuva, CHIRGILCHIN, at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, CA on November 25 & 26. The performances are presented by the Central Asia Cultural Center.
Tickets available through www.cityboxoffice.com
Sat Nov 25, 8 PM. Sun Nov 26, 7 PM.
Herbst Theatre infoNEW LAURIE ANDERSON SONG "THE FIFTH PLAGUE" APPEARS ON PLAGUE SONGS COMPILATION, AVAILABLE NOV. 21 IN THE US FROM 4AD
November 22, 2006
Plague Songs is a compilation with quite an intriguing concept behind it:
Ten different artists have been selected to each write a song about one of the ten biblical plagues from the book of Exodus.
The tracks in biblical order are:
- "Blood" - Klashnekoff (The Plague Of Blood)
- "Relate the Tale" - King Creosote (The Plague Of Frogs)
- "The Meaning of Lice" - Stephin Merritt (The Plague Of Lice)
- "Flies" - Brian Eno & Robert Wyatt (The Plague Of Flies)
- "The Fifth Plague" - Laurie Anderson (The Death Of Livestock)
- "Boils" - Cody ChesnuTT (The Plague Of Boils)
- "Hailstones" - The Tiger Lillies (The Plague Of Hail)
- "Glittering Cloud" - Imogen Heap (The Plague Of Locusts)
- "Darkness" - Scott Walker (The Plague Of Darkness)
- "Katonah" - Rufus Wainwright (The Death Of The Firstborn)
For more information, visit: http://4ad.com/plaguesongs/us/
LAURIE IN CONCERT IN PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN, JUNE 17, 2006
June 12, 2006
On Saturday, June 17, Laurie will make an outdoor hometown appearance at the Prospect Park bandshell at 7:30PM. She'll be performing new, old and improvised music and stories and will be joined by fellow musicians Skuli Sverrisson and Peter Scherer. The Tuvan throat singers of CHIRGILCHIN start the evening off with an opening set and will also join Laurie on stage.
www.celebratebrooklyn.org/celebrate/schedule.aspLAURIE ANDERSON IN PERSON FOR DISCUSSION AND SCREENING OF "HIDDEN INSIDE MOUNTAINS" ON JUNE 9, 2006
June 9, 2006
Laurie will speak at Museum of the Moving Image on Friday, June 9, at 7:30 p.m., with a screening of her high-definition short film Hidden Inside Mountains. She will participate in a conversation about her work following the screening. This event is presented in collaboration with the AIGA-New York MOVE3 conference.
LAURIE ANDERSON IN TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
April 13, 2006
Laurie Anderson's Hidden in Mountains will be presented at The Tribeca Film Festival.
More info here: Hidden Inside Mountains
LAURIE ANDERSON IN CONVERSATION AT THE RUBIN MUSEUM
March 2, 2006
Laurie will be taking part in two upcoming conversations at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City:
- Sunday, March 5: Laurie Anderson and dancer/choreographer Mark Morris. 4 - 5:30 PM.
- Wednesday, April 5: Laurie Anderson and theologian Elaine Pagels, 7 - 8:45 PM.
ITHACA, NY FILM SCREENINGS
January 17, 2006
Laurie's 2005 film "Hidden Inside Mountains" and her classic concert film "Home of the Brave" will be screened at the Cornell Cinema on January 18 and January 20 in advance of Laurie's appearance at Ithaca's State Theater on January 21 to perform The End of the Moon.
Home of the Brave and Hidden Inside Mountains at Cornell Cinema The End of The Moon at Ithica's State TheaterLaurie's The End of the Moon just received a "Best of 2005" mention in New York Magazine Culture Awards this month
December 14, 2005
Best Science-Art Crossover
Cultural Elite 2005, New York Magazine"Laurie Anderson’s latest extravaganza at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The End of the Moon, was the result of her year as NASA’s first artist-in-residence. Nothing this post-punk counterculture sibyl has dreamed up has been more whimsically lyrical, friendly, or wise. We’re still pondering her observations on the nesting habits of gay penguins."
-P.D.G.
LECTURES AT THE BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
November 30, 2005
On November 29 and November 30, Laurie delivered a lecture at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts entitled “Beauty”, an overview of her recent projects with a focus on issues of beauty as well as other aspects of the conception and creation of her work.
Click for more information on the Boston MFA lecturesRISD ATHENA AWARDS
November 30, 2005
On November 14, Laurie was honored by the Rhode Island School of Design with the Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf Award for Lifetime Achievment in the Artsat a ceremony in New York City.
Click here for more information on the RISD Athena Awards“RIEN DANS LES POCHES” RADIO JOURNAL
November 30, 2005
Laurie’s audio journal for radio entitled “Rien dans les Poches”/”Nothing in my Pockets” is nearing completion and will premiere as a French Radio broadcast as part of a France Culture series in early 2006. Check back soon for more details or visit the Radio France/France Culture website.
VIA MUMBAI CONFERENCE
November 30, 2005
In February 2006, Laurie has been invited to travel to Mumbai, India to participate in the Via Mumbai: Multiple Cultures in a Globalizing World International Conference sponsored by the Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts.
NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL LECTURE SERIES
November 30, 2005
On January 24, 2006 Laurie will give a lecture on her work as part of the New York Studio School lecture series
BBC JOHN PEEL DOCUMENTARY
November 30, 2005
Laurie appears in an interview in the BBC Four documentary on the legendary DJ John Peel called “John Peel’s Record Box” which aired in the UK in November 2005. John Peel is credited for beginning to play Laurie’s “O Superman” on his BBC Radio One show, leading to the song heading straight into the British charts and launching a new phase of Laurie’s career.
MIND AND LIFE CONFERENCE
November 30, 2005
Laurie attended the Mind and Life Conference at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington D.C. from November 8 through 10 to cover the event for Tricycle Magazine
Look for her report in Tricycle later this winter and check back soon for more info on the issue release date.
Click for more information on the Mind and Life ConferenceSTAR CITY
November 30, 2005
Laurie has recently returned from a research trip to Star City, the famous Russian cosmonaut training center outside of Moscow. Elements of Laurie’s impressions will be part of an appearance she will make in London as part of the “Space Soon” conference exploring world space culture in September 2006.
TIME/SPACE AT CHICAGO’S ADLER PLANETARIUM
November 30, 2005
In spring 2005, Laurie recorded the narration for the Adler Planetarium’s new StarRider full-dome digital theater show that chronicles more than 14 billion years of time and space.
Click here to read the Time/Space Press ReleaseURBAN LEARNING SPACE
November 30, 2005
In 2005, Laurie joined the advisory board of the innovative Urban Learning Space project, sponsored by the Lighthouse, a national centre for architecture and design in Glasgow, Scotland.