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April 2018
Sound and Music in Film: in discussion with Laurie Anderson – Athens, Ohio
In celebration of the Athens International Film + Video Festival, Laurie Anderson discussed the role of sound and music in her own work as well as in some of the scores she has written for other films. Included were Carmen, What you mean We? O Superman, Beautiful Red Dress, Personal Service Announcements, Chalkroom and Heart of a Dog.
Find out more »All The Things I Lost in the Flood: a reading and performance with music, visuals and electronics – Athens, Ohio
“The world is made of stories and as stories escalate and get shorter and shorter until they’re ten word tweets and as our sense of reality continues to shred, we see that this is not a political situation, it’s an existential one-” writes Anderson, “And we suddenly see: we’re drowning in our own stories.” All The Things I Lost in the Flood marked the second event at the Athens Film Festival featuring the work of Laurie Anderson. In celebration of…
Find out more »Guest Artist Series featuring Laurie Anderson – Greensville, South Carolina
The South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities' Presidential Guest Artist Series, sponsored by The Graham Foundation and First Citizens Bank, invites avant-garde artist, composer, musician, and film director Laurie Anderson to lead a school-wide Humanities discussion with students from the Fine Arts Center. Anderson will also give a free multimedia presentation and artist talk where she will read from her publication All the Things I Lost in the Flood.
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Find out more »May 2018
Do Angels Need Haircuts?: Early Poems by Lou Reed, with Laurie Anderson, Anne Waldman and Friends
A new collection of Lou Reed’s rare early poetry, culled from the performer’s archive at NYPL, is brought to life by family and friends. At the age of 28, Lou Reed — then the Velvet Underground’s lead singer — took a hairpin turn in his creative life: he quit the band, moved home to Long Island, and began writing poetry. The resulting work of that period — much of it never published — has been relegated to an obscure chapter…
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