Ready to Reveal Her Final Frontier Triptych Is Back.Dave Pollok Meets Cult Artist Laurie Anderson, While Neil Cooper Hears of Troubled Dan Treacy's Renaissance
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PERFORMANCE artist and avant-garde composer Laurie Anderson's association with Triptych has clearly been a meaningful one for both parties. Happiness, the first in her latest series of solo- performed works, received its world premiere at Scotland's three- city festival, and our interview - conducted by telephone from her New York studio - finds Anderson packing eagerly before a return visit. "I'm really looking forward to this, " emphasises Lou Reed's partner of more than a decade warmly. "What's the weather like? A bit chilly? Then I'd better pack my sweater."
Once again, Anderson will be presenting all-new work to a Scots audience, with her latest performance - The End of the Moon - forming "on the surface" a report of her time as artist-in- residence with Nasa. "That was about the strangest gig I've ever had, " she reflects. "Nasa called me up out of the blue to invite me, and I had no idea what they wanted. But neither did they. I think the idea at the beginning was that I'd do a multimedia project, but they have so many happening already.See the full content of this document
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Ready to Reveal Her Final Frontier Triptych Is Back.Dave Pollok Meets Cult Artist Laurie Anderson, While Neil Cooper Hears of Troubled Dan Treacy's Renaissance
"So, in one way, I've tried to represent where I went and what I saw - Mission Control, Hubble - but in another, it's more like a series of thought balloons. I didn't ...
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