Talking Stick Returned Reproduced

Ha! Looks like the U. S. Government doesn't consider Laurie's batonlike MIDI instrument as a threat to state security* anymore: [a replica of] the Talking Stick is part of I in U / Eu em tu, the retrospective exhibition of Laurie Anderson's oeuvre in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:

The Talking Stick in Rio

photo by Alexandra Lima

For more great photos and a description of the exhbition, click to Alexandra Lima's blog (the original Portuguese text is translated into English via Googe Translator).





* FYI: the Talking Stick, originally designed for Laurie's Moby Dick adaptation in 1998, was confiscated by the FBI during a zealous safety measure in 1999.

Slide Show from Rio

The Talking Pillow being tested by its creator

By clicking to the photo above, you can watch a video (more of a slide show) made by Marcello Dantas, the curator of I in U / Eu em Tu, Laurie Anderson's retrospective exhibition in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Visual Solace for the Remote and Deprived

A photo gallery and a video tour of the joint exhibition of the early works of Laurie Anderson, choreographer Trisha Brown and the late artist Gordon Matta-Clark at the Barbican Art Gallery in London:

The exhibition is called Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s. It opens today and it runs until May 22nd, 2011.

FYI: Tonight Laurie Anderson will re-perform one of her early trademark acts, Duets on Ice at the gallery.

Sigh.

I in U in the 'Metropolis'

"[...] To tell a story: this is really my art form, not technology."

(Laurie Anderson)

Brazilian cultural tv show 'Metropolis' featuring I in U / Eu em Tu:

Since the the Portuguese overdub was mixed to the left side and Laurie's voice on the right side in the stereo sound, I luckily managed to "extract" her voice and made a collage of the interview excerpts that had been made it o the show. They are sometimes disjointed, sometimes without end of sentences but, at least, listenable. She talks about how she feels being called a performance artist; making the paintings for the exhibition; Duets on Ice, Lou Reed's help in the making process of 'Homeland', Bob Dylan and politics:

• Laurie Anderson interview excerpts in 'Metropolis', 2010 (audio length: 1 min 29 secs, file size: 1.3 MB)

Lots and Lots of Photos

... from I in U / Eu em Tu, Laurie Anderson's retrospective in São Paulo, Brazil, on Ana Viaja's blog.

Laurie Anderson in the Vitrine

Brazilian tv's reportage of I in U / Eu em Tu, Laurie Anderson's retrospective exhibition in São Paulo, along with descriptions of various works of art of Laurie by curator Marcello Dantas, plus interview excerpts with Laurie Anderson:

Idiosyncratic and Ancestral

"Laurie Anderson created a category for herself, a category that could be defined as a state of permanent mutation."

Marcello Dantas, curator of Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil

Read Dharma/Arte blog's description of I in U / Eu em Tu, Laurie's retrospective art exhibition in São Paolo, featuring a photo of a renewed, round Handphone Table, plus another video recording of 'Duets on Ice' at the end of the article.

At the Shrink's

Timeiswide, major contributor of Laurie Anderson-related goodness on dimeadozen, was kind enough to allow Mnemosyne to feature a previously 'unpublished' piece here, among Files on a String: an excerpt from a previous big touring retrospective, entitled The Record of the Time: Sound in the Work of Laurie Anderson. This recording was made in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 2003. The story can be read in Stories from the Nerve Bible: a Twenty-Year Retrospective (page 84 - thanks, Timeiswide), it basically deals with the insolubly different perspectives every human individual has.

• At the Shrink's (audio length: 2 mins 10 secs, file size: 2.98 MB)

FYI: It's worth comparing this version with the original which was made 26 (or 28) years earlier and an excerpt of it can be found in the Catalogue of Netherlands Media Art Institute.

I in U

A preview video of Laurie Anderson's forthcoming retrospective exhibition in São Paolo, Brasil: Eu em Tu. That is: I in U.