Laurie Anderson, in an interview with the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark's Louisiana Channel, offers some sage advice to people both young and old. She suggests that applying a term as broad as "multimedia artist" to herself has helped keep her work from being pigeonholed and concludes: "Whatever makes you feel really free and really good, that's what to do. It's really simple." You can see what else she has to say in the video here. In another video, she discusses her correspondence with John F. Kennedy in 1960, which informed her new piece The Language of the Future: Letters to Jack.
Laurie Anderson sat down for an interview at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark last month that included some sage advice to young people that could be applied equally well to others as well. In a piece for the Louisiana Channel—the museum's site for videos on art, literature, music, design, and architecture—Anderson tells interviewer Christian Lund that applying a term as broad as "multimedia artist" to herself has helped keep her work from being pigeonholed. She concludes: "Whatever makes you feel really free and really good, that's what to do. It's really simple." You can see what else she has to say in the video, which also appeared on The Huffington Post, below:
Laurie Anderson: Advice to the Young from Louisiana Channel on Vimeo.
Anderson also spoke with Lund and the Louisiana Channel about her correspondence with then Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in 1960, which included an assertion unexpected from a politician in his position, that "poetry and art are the engine" of society. Laurie Anderson recently performed her piece The Language of the Future: Letters to Jack, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. You can watch that interview here:
Laurie Anderson: Letter Exchange with JFK from Louisiana Channel on Vimeo.
Anderson also spoke with The Atlantic for an interview following her recent performance at Moogfest. You can read what she has to say about the current state of affairs in American politics and more theatlantic.com.
Heart of a Dog, Laurie Anderson's new film, is now showing in cinemas in the UK and Ireland. To find out where, visit dogwoof.com. The Times of London says it's "a work of mastery: thought-provoking, smart and incredibly moving." The soundtrack, including all music and spoken text from the film, is available from Nonesuch Records on iTunes and in the Nonesuch Store.
- Log in to post comments