Laurie Anderson discusses her influences from childhood through adolescence and early adulthood. She analyzes the nature of memory. She describes the environment of New York in the 1970s as having elements of earlier hippie notions of communality, ease, and languor. She also describes personalities she knew in New York's 1970s art scene. She discusses the influence of Buddhism and Vipassana session s. She shares about her collaboration with Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg on the 1983 performance art piece Set + Reset. She describes her relationship with Rauschenberg including socializing at parties, artistic collaborations, and, posthumously, through his foundation's Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, FL. She describes her 2015 residency at Captiva and its impact on compositions. She also discusses her 2015 film Heart of a Dog
Composers; Artists--20th century.--New York (State); Avant-garde (Music); Captiva Island (Fla.); Anderson, Laurie, 1947-; Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008; Brown, Trisha, 1936-2017
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
2015
Physical Description
32 pages
Note (Biographical)
Laurie Anderson was born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. She is an experimental artist, musician, composer, film director, instrumentalist, and a pioneer in the field of electronic music. She was also the wife of musician Lou Reed
Note
Interviewed by Alessandra Nicifero on October 23, 2015
Note (Provenance)
Laurie Anderson, Gift, transferred from Columbia Center for Oral History Research 2019