Laurie Anderson
Looking into a Mirror Sideways
Stockholm, 1.4 2023 – 3.9 2023
Artist, performer, composer, filmmaker and writer, Laurie Anderson’s boundary defying work has elevated her to legendary status among the pioneers of American avant-garde art, experimental music and independent culture. Storytelling, listening and language are at the very core of her art.
In what is Anderson’s largest solo exhibition to date in Europe, visitors are treated to a narrative on the nature of time, space and existence. A representative selection of the artist’s works from the 1970s up to the present day is complemented with brand new, site-specific productions: conceptual art, performance, innovative musical instruments, compositions, stage shows, as well as activist art and political art. The exhibition serves as a forum for both physical materials and techniques – painting, sculpture, analogue photography, sound tapes and film strips – and new digital worlds, such as virtual reality.
Laurie Anderson, born in Glen Ellyn, a suburb of Chicago, in 1947 has Swedish ancestry on her father’s side. Her grandfather hailed from Dalsland.
Curator: Lena Essling
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Info: VR artwork created by artists Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang. To the Moon uses images and tropes from Greek mythology, literature, science, space, sci-fi, and politics to create an imaginary and fabulous new moon. During the 15-minute VR experience, the viewer is shot out from earth, walks on the surface of the moon, glides through space debris, flies through DNA skeletons and is lifted up the side and then tossed off of a lunar mountain.
Info: VR artwork created by artists Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang. To the Moon uses images and tropes from Greek mythology, literature, science, space, sci-fi, and politics to create an imaginary and fabulous new moon. During the 15-minute VR experience, the viewer is shot out from earth, walks on the surface of the moon, glides through space debris, flies through DNA skeletons and is lifted up the side and then tossed off of a lunar mountain.
Video installation, polyester, wire mesh, fog. From "Scenes from the ARK", a work in progress commissioned by Manchester International Festival for fall 2024.
Dedicated to Nikola Tesla. Photo: Mattias Lindbäck/Moderna Museet
Photo: Mattias Lindbäck/Moderna Museet
Jewellery by Josiah Dearborn, engineering design by Bob Bielecki. Photo: Mattias Lindbäck/Moderna Museet
Info: Centering on Anderson's beloved rat terrier Lolabelle, who died in 2011, the film Heart of a Dog is a personal essay that weaves together childhood memories, video diaries, philosophical musings on data collection, surveillance culture and the Buddhist conception of the afterlife, and heartfelt tributes to the artists, writers, musicians and thinkers who inspire her.
Info: Centering on Anderson's beloved rat terrier Lolabelle, who died in 2011, the film Heart of a Dog is a personal essay that weaves together childhood memories, video diaries, philosophical musings on data collection, surveillance culture and the Buddhist conception of the afterlife, and heartfelt tributes to the artists, writers, musicians and thinkers who inspire her.
Repro: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet Info: Centering on Anderson's beloved rat terrier Lolabelle, who died in 2011, the film Heart of a Dog is a personal essay that weaves together childhood memories, video diaries, philosophical musings on data collection, surveillance culture and the Buddhist conception of the afterlife, and heartfelt tributes to the artists, writers, musicians and thinkers who inspire her.
Info: Concert film of Laurie Anderson performing songs from her first three albums, selections from her four-night epic "United States Live," and several new songs, incorporating film, animation, dance, and electronics.
Info: Concert film of Laurie Anderson performing songs from her first three albums, selections from her four-night epic "United States Live," and several new songs, incorporating film, animation, dance, and electronics.
Info: From Home of the Brave, concert film of Laurie Anderson performing songs from her first three albums, selections from her four-night epic "United States Live," and several new songs, incorporating film, animation, dance, and electronics.
