Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson's performances involve a synthesis of elements of music, performance (she plays in complex ways with voice and persona), visual/technological spectacle, and storytelling.

In the above story, Anderson tells a story about her dog. It seems at first a simple story, but – told in the wake of 9-11 – it carries allegorical resonances of political events and American attitudes after the terrorist attacks...


Anderson made her splash in popular culture with the chart-topping song O Superman, back in the 1980s. Anderson's song was at the time technologically innovative, and strangely haunting. Its lyrically complex, with dense imagery where, again, the domestic slides into the political and the homely (even cutesy) and the uncanny collide...