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Listening to O Superman (and most of her catalogue, particularly this album) gives me the same strange, horrifiying, and intimate feelings that Kaufman typically elicit.
I feel completely wrapped into the art and relate to it in a strange unidentifiable way. I notice something new each time, but feel no closer to understanding it with each listen. Extremely vulnerable and personal, but seemingly detached. Something that will resonate differently as I age and change.
Check out this track if you haven’t yet. This time around, it makes me think of the “when are we going to get an audience?” scene in Synecdoche.
Oct 17, 2021
When the Hirshhorn Museum told Laurie Anderson that it wanted to put on a big, lavish retrospective of her work, she said no.
For one thing, she was busy and has been for roughly 50 years. Over the course of her incessant career, Ms. Anderson has done just about everything a creative person can do. She helped design an Olympics opening ceremony, served as the official artist in residence for NASA, made an opera out of “Moby-Dick” and played a concert for dogs at the Sydney Opera House. And she is still going.
On top of all this, Ms. Anderson had philosophical qualms about a retrospective. She is 74, which seems like a very normal age to stop and look back, and yet she seems determined, at all times, to keep moving forward.
This story was written by Sam Anderson and recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
You can listen to the episode here.
