Kirjahaku

Sometime before the pandemic, Anderson a legendary figure in the worlds of art, performance, and music was in the midst of preparing for two monumental survey exhibitions. Prompted by those tours de force, Anderson gathers in this volume the most important work of her career, including new groundbreaking work that few have seen. Spanning a half century, Anderson writes about the ideas that have guided her work across media. Packaged in a compact paper slipcase, the jacketed flexibound volume features monumental new works alongside significant historical pieces and betrays Anderson as the original multihyphenate artist. From music, video, and performance to room-size installations, sculpture, and painting, she moves easily between traditional and digital techniques and, in the last fifteen years, VR and AI technology. From immersive installations to technological marvels like the tape-bow violin, Anderson s work seamlessly merges innovation with a profound sense of lightness, humor, and humanity. Central to Anderson s artistic imagination is her compelling storytelling. This book, presented entirely in the artist s own words, provides a personal exploration of her work, unveiling how she uses technology and narrative to reflect, decipher, and comment on the roles of technology, language, and politics in American culture.

Laurie Anderson is one of the most revered artists working today, and she is as prolific as she is inventive. She is a musician, performance artist, composer, fiction writer, and filmmaker (her most recent foray, Heart of a Dog, was lauded as an experimental marvel by the Los Angeles Times). Anderson moves seamlessly between the music world and the fine-art world while maintaining her stronghold in both. A true polymath, her interest in new media made her an early pioneer of harnessing technology for artistic purposes long before the technology boom of the last ten years. Regardless of the medium, however, it is exploration of language (and how it seeps into the image) and storytelling that is her metier. A few years ago, Anderson began poring through her extensive archive of nearly forty years of work, which includes scores of documentation, notebooks, and sketchbooks. In the process, she rediscovered important work and looked at well-known projects with a new lens. In this landmark volume, the artist brings together the most comprehensive collection of her artwork to date, some of which has never before been seen or published. Spanning drawing, multimedia installations, performance, and new projects using augmented reality, the extensive volume traverses four decades of her ground-breaking art. Each chapter includes commentary written by Anderson herself, offering an intimate understanding of her work through the artist s own words.