Karenina.it Special: Pioneers in Intermedia Poetry Laurie Anderson at PAC in Milan:
THE RECORD OF THE TIME Sound in the Work of Laurie Anderson http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/_XOOM/kareninazoom/laurie.htm For Internet Explorer 6 Download a Real Player video of the exhibition http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/davinio/laurieanderson.rm 1.700 KB Video of the opening day by C. Davinio Original edition: Thierry Raspail, Director of the Mus�e 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 -- Karenina.it Experimental Caterina Davinio Director http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/kareninazoom/kareninarivista.html
