May 10, 2011

Meanwhile, on the GRIT...


"I would love "explorer" but on my passport it just says "artist". [...] I try to just be a good journalist, really, and look at what's going on. [...] I'm a storyteller. I'm not tapdancing around, I don't do that. Maybe I'm fooling myself. Hm..."
(Laurie Anderson's attempts of self-description to Laura Flanders, 2011)



Nostalgia, techno humiliation, art and politics, alter-egos as ways of escape, Laurie Anderson's saddest musical experience and many-many more in Laura Flanders' recent interview on GRIT tv:





P. S.: Hm. Looks like the original Talking Stick is still in the hands of Homeland Security.