Laurie Anderson
Homeland
The multi-faceted artist that is Laura Phillips Anderson (born 5 June 1947) knew from a young age that she could help turn the hum of life into intelligible sound, mapping and pinning-down the chaos. Her pioneering performances, and her collaborations with, among others, Robert Wilson, William Burroughs and Lou Reed, have established her as a key figure of the New York avant-garde scene since 1969. She is a great innovator, writing a symphony to be played on car horns, or performing compositions using just her tape-bow violin, swaying over a block of ice into which the ice-skates she wears have been frozen.
She is NASA’s first, and to date only, artist-in-residence.
Her Homeland concert at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus will see her celebrate her sixtieth birthday under the Attic skies. Homeland is a complex work that examines a way of life overflowing with technology, existential isolation, devastation, and the harsh realities of fear and psychoses. It reflects images drawn from ancient Greek tragedy, from Euripides and Sophocles, recreating them in electronic music, visuals, and poetry.
In English with Greek surtitles.
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Duration 1 hour and 30 minutes with no interval
Odeon of Herodes Atticus
- 19/06/2007 at 21:00
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