[spectre] Laurie Anderson at PAC in Milan

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Laurie Anderson at PAC in Milan:

THE RECORD OF THE TIME
Sound in the Work of Laurie Anderson

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Original edition: Thierry Raspail, Director of the Musée d'Art Contemporain
of Lyons
Italian edition curated by Jean-Hubert Martin, artistic director PAC

Open to the public      11th November 2003 - 15th February 2004

Venue PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea - Via Palestro 14 - Milan

Opening hours:   9.30 a.m. - 7.00 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday - Thursday until
10.00 p.m. - Closed on Monday


Anderson, who sees herself as a "storyteller", creates spatial installations
through the interaction of poetry and song, sound collages and music,
dealing with stories from her life, her dreams, poems or myths and legends.
Anderson: "For the past thirty years my work has basically consisted of
music and performances, in which I have always combined several art forms.
[...] The works shown in The Record of the Time deal primarily with my
creations using sounds and noise. There are several leitmotifs: the violin,
the voice, words, sound spheres and alter egos."

One characteristic of Anderson's work is her combination of theatre, pop
music, action and pictorial art, which are merged by means of computer
technology and electronics into spectacular performances and audio-visual
installations - all of which creates a very distinct and individual universe
of images and sounds. With this unique combination of sophisticated
technology, imaginative pictorial worlds, innovative music and trenchant
narratives, Laurie Anderson has become an international trend-setter in the
field of multimedia art.

In certain interactive installations, presented in the show, visitors will
have an opportunity to explore the world of the artist themselves: Handphone
Table, for example, invites visitors to perceive sounds through their own
arm bones. Another audio-visual experience can be made in front of the works
Tape Bow Violin (1977) and Neon Violin (1983) - which make use of the
instrument employed by Anderson so often that it has become a kind of
"second voice" for her and whose sound she has altered and electronically
manipulated in every conceivable way. The Digital Violin (1984), for
example, generates a variety of sounds that can be uploaded from a hard
disk: the visitor hears wailing animals and crashing computers.

In 1972, Anderson made her debut as performance artist with a concert for
car horns. From the mid seventies, she continued her work on performances
and with music and sound. Her song "O Superman" made the London charts in
1981. In the following years, the artist presented more large-scale
performances and worked together with film directors and musicians such as
Brian Eno, Wim Wenders and Peter Gabriel. She made the concert film "Home of
the Brave". In the early nineties, her work assumed a more political side
and she produced several works on the subjects of violence, conflict and
censorship.


Admission:
Adults ? 5,20 - Reduced, groups and students ? 2,60 - School groups ? 1.80



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