Laurie Anderson

Benefit Performance by Laurie Anderson in Celebration of Transmit+Transform, Santa Fe Art Institute's 2004 Season

Legendary performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson performs
"The End of the Moon," a multimedia solo work

Performance: Tuesday, November 16, 7:30 pm
Lensic Performing Art Center, Santa Fe

Benefit Reception: November 16 at Swig, Santa Fe, 6 - 7:30 pm

Benefit Dinner: November 16, following the performance

Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI) is honored to present Laurie Anderson in a solo performance in celebration of Transmit+Transform, the 2004 season of programming exploring sound and light in contemporary art. Proceeds from the pre performance party and the post-performance dinner will benefit SFAI and raise funds for annual programming. Anderson will perform The End of the Moon, the second in a series of new solo works that combines stories, songs, and music in a lowtech setting to create an ambitiously large picture of contemporary American culture.

Anecdotal, wide ranging and epic, The End of the Moon also features new music for violin and electronics. Since her pioneering multimedia work United States Anderson’s subject has often been technology and culture. Of The End of the Moon she writes, “I find that the best way to look at our culture these days is not through a multi-media show, but with the simpler and sharper tools of words.”

As NASA’s first artist-in-residence, Anderson will draw on her recent research and travels. Part travelogue, part personal theories, history, and dreams, The End of the Moon looks at the relationships between war, esthetics, spirituality and consumerism. Following the critical and popular success of Happiness, The End of the Moon will explore the contemporary meanings of freedom and time, as well as the tangled ways in which we decide what is beautiful now.

Known primarily for her multimedia presentations, Anderson has cast herself in roles as varied as visual artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, electronics whiz, vocalist, and instrumentalist. Anderson has toured the United States and internationally with shows ranging from simple spoken word performances to eleborate multimedia events. Laurie Anderson’s visual work has been presented in major museums throughout the United States and Europe. She is recognized as a groundbreaking leader in the use of technology in the arts. Anderson lives in New York City.

Laurie Anderson Benefit Performance Sponsor Circle:
Gay Block and Malka Drucker, Marlene Meyerson, Alicia M. and William A. Miller, David Rosen and Christopher Rocca, David and Catherine Skinner, Celia Rumsey, Lannan Foundation (as of October 25, 2004)

Press Release includes detailed information on Anderson's work.