Anderson's anti-American attitude sparks walkout
It whitethorn be triplet decades since Laurie Anderson reached No. 2 in the UK singles chart with her eight-minute experimental epic "O, Superman"– which was a haunting bill of indictment of Frigidness War American language foreign policy – but the Newly Yorker reminded British people audiences this week that she has doomed none of her radical fire.
A performance of her latest point, Native land, at the Barbacan in London on Thursday prompted a walkout by or so audience members world Health Organization were enraged at her criticism of her fellow Americans and o'er her condemnation of the US invasion of Al-Iraq.Philip Warren Anderson has besides been qualification headlines because of her holocene epoch marriage to her collaborator, Lou Walter Reed. The duo take been together since the late nineties.In her Motherland show, she is accompanied by a deuce-ace of male musicians and addresses the Iraq war, a subject she feels is "tabu" in the US. She likewise discusses the state of a nation dominated by "the underwear gods" of billboard advertising and populated by the obese.Her 1981 hit, "O Dot" was inspired by the aria "O Souverain" from Massenet's Le CID, and tackled the US surety crisis in Persia. "It's passably much the saame conflict and many of the same issues are just about, exclude immediately it's more difficult to criticise," she said. "Most of our money goes on that war. Is that really a good use of goods and services of our resources? The bet ar quite high, so I imagine it's charles Frederick Worth talking near."In Master of Architecture, Carl Anderson and Reed joined forces with singers including Marcus Antonius Hegarty from Mark Antony and the Johnsons, the Scissor Sisters, Norah Jones, Damien Elmer Reizenstein and St. David Byrne as well as writers and thinkers such as Naomi Klein for Talk Up! a benefit concert for pacification in Al-Iraq."Even if Americans fight the war, what are they really doing around it? We gave them somewhere to come," she said.Explaining the title of her latest act, Anderson said: "Country of origin is a sentimental, fuzzy word, but it's partnered with security, which is a very cold, bureaucratic word."She believes her show is particularly relevant in the UK, where it finishes at the Barbican tonight, in front traveling to Norwich and Harare, because it discusses "what it's like to process in a culture where surveillance is becoming more dominant".Last month, Maxwell Anderson married Vibrating reed in a ceremony in Colorado. "I was just walk devour a street in Calif. and I was talking to Lou, and we were always talking about acquiring married, and he said 'how around tomorrow? It was very nice. It was just now him and me under a tree."Born in Chicago in 1947, Philip Warren Anderson first came to prominence as an van artist in Fresh House of York in the 1970s, experimenting with sound and music. She still lives in the metropolis in a sixth floor loft studio in downtown Manhattan. As well as playacting the fiddle and keyboard and tattle, she became known for the ingenious electrical devices she invented, such as a fiddle with a magnetic tape head on the bow.Her body of influence has encompasseding movie and multimedia projects as well as euphony and she has collaborated with artists including William William S. Burroughs, Brian Eno and Jean-Michel Jarre. In 2003, she became the first and so far only when artist-in-residence at NASA, leading to the creation of a performance piece, The End of the Sun Myung Moon.
Elmore James
