Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson
Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained in violin and sculpting, Anderson pursued a variety of performance art projects in New York during the 1970s, making particular use of language, technology, and visual imagery. She became widely more known outside the art world in 1981 when her single "O Superman" reached number two on the UK pop charts. She also starred...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth5 June 1947
CityGlen Ellyn, IL
CountryUnited States of America
being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.
Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it's how I'm an artist.
I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.
I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.
The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.
A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.
At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.