Laurie Anderson - Pioneer figure of the American avant-garde art | Thinking Existenz (4/10)

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Pioneer of electronic music, icon of the New York avant-garde, Laurie Anderson is a musician, composer, performer, visual artist and filmmaker. In the 80s and 90s she was a precursor of contemporary electronic music. In 2010 she released the album Homeland. In Laurie Anderson’s words, technology is a mere tool-like the pencil-to design the world, allowing us to assess our capacity as acting individuals. She believes that each person has the power to shape things and their own destiny. This reality creates conflicting conditions: on the one hand, we are capable of determining our own existence; on the other, we are constantly limited by the way we design the world and life. This design is no doubt conditioned by external factors and obeys categories that have us think the world in a closed manner. Thus we become ignorant, creating a language and culture that don't allow us to ponder realities beyond those that we find within the perimeter in which we move-like poverty or war. She felt the changeover to the digital age coming and continues to question our relationship to technology. Her counter-culture art highlights social inequalities and societal problems in America, as well as alienating capitalism.
Original title: Thinking Existenz - Laurie Anderson
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Laurie Anderson gets it. She's on the case of many important subjects in our world today. I'm pleased to discover that she validates my own thought processes about being American in this world at this time.

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