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Laurie Anderson: Performance Artist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2021

Mel Gordon
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I always felt it was a mistake being labeled as an autobiographical artist.[…] Most of the work that I do is two-part or stereo, not monolithic at all—so there's always the yes/no, he/she, or whatever pairs I'm working with.

Laurie Anderson, 1979

Since her first performance work in 1974, Laurie Anderson has found herself concerned with a basic esthetic dilemma that has troubled a number of other performance artists: how to create an intensely personal art that is not just simple autobiography. How can the performer/author bring raw, unmediated materials from his/her life and structure them to strike a balance between his/her own needs and those of the audience? For Anderson, the resolution is not only intellectual but technical; it is one that leads to a new performance style.

Type
Women and Performance Issue
Information
The Drama Review , Volume 24 , Issue 2: Women and Performance Issue , June 1980 , pp. 51 - 54
Copyright
Copyright © 1980 The Drama Review

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