Laurie Anderson: Night Life
by Laurie Anderson
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Author: Laurie AndersonEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-11-01
ISBN: 3865213391
Number of pages: 96
Publisher: Steidl
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Book Review: Wonderfull
Summary: 5 Stars
What can be said about Laurie's work that don't use words like amazing, lovely, brilliant, delicate, elegant an so on? This book register her dreams, both on text and digital drawings made on tour far from home. It's the very source of her criativity and unique poit of view on the absurd and beautiful world around us. As we read it, we discover how rich and amazing is both her lifes - awaken and asleep. As allways, the multimedia artist reveals that any media can be used as an expression of her own soul and as a voice of expression. Sometimes a word, sentence or a drawing can say more than a concert, a music video or a performance. She ingeniously uses all channels of communication and expression to cleverly mark her statement on simple and complex things. Absolutly delicious from beggining to end.
Summary of Laurie Anderson: Night Life
"For the last year I've been on the road with a solo performance. Every night another theater, another hotel room. Gradually my dreams became wild, vivid, more and more relentless. Headless singing squirrels, vast empty spaces, bizarre clatterings and invasions. My own dark and private theater was slowly taking over. I began to draw these dreams literally out of self-defense. I kept the computer drawing tablet next to the bed and tried to capture them in their most raw state. After many months of drawing my dreams I was drawn into the odd language and logic of the images. Often I drew my own head in the foreground. What did that mean? Who's watching who? Often the dreams were alternate versions of the day's events. Sometimes they were heavily charged atmospheres, sensations, emotions. Depictions of bewilderment, ecstasy, weightlessness, abandonment, freedom." Night Life is Laurie Anderson's diary of a year of dreams. Its pages re-create each night's mental show as a work of art, employing Anderson's skill in theater, lyrics and narrative to investigate the workings of her mind in the languages of dreams, drawings and text.Book Subjects
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