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The New York Times─
“Laurie Anderson's specialness lies in the diversity of her talent: she is at once a composer, lyricist, singer and electronic wizard.”
The London Times─
“A questioning multimedia essay on the cosmos, coupled with an elegy for unconditional love.”
Laurie Anderson, an American artist of multiple talents in visual arts, music, photography, writing, film, and multimedia installations, has been active in the arts industry since 1970s as an avant-garde music pioneer, as well as a vanguard in guiding the trend in crossover creations. Delusion is a musical theater work commissioned by the 2010 Cultural Olympiad in Vancouver, B.C. and Barbican Center in London. Playing the electric violin herself, Anderson becomes a storyteller with various audiovisual installations on stage to narrate a captivating epic story. Through a series of mysterious short stories, the audiences will be taken into an exploration of desire, identity, hidden memories, and questions buried deep down in everyone’s heart. Come and watch as Anderson does her magic in transforming spirits, mystery, ghost ships, and separated loves into a poetic realm of stage sounds and images, reaching the horrors residing inside the audience and ultimately taking them into a phantom-like world!
Laurie Anderson
Born in Chicago, Laurie Anderson is an influential American experimental performance artist, well-known for her outstanding reputation in multimedia music, as well as for her inventions of sound devices. She became widely known in the 1980s when her single “O Superman” reached number two on the UK pop charts, where her unique style sent ripples across the art world in pioneering the addition of electronic and multimedia elements into musical performances. As an excellent storyteller, her music often features a moving narrative, and her performance always goes beyond music playing, in which she adds a number of text and multimedia elements to make her personal style unique and exclusive.
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