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Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.


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The PSAs were frequently shown between music videos on VH-1 in early 1990. In May/June 2010 Anderson curated the Vivid Sydney festival in Sydney Australia together with Lou Reed. Films
Dearreader: How to Turn a Book Into a Movie - 1974
System ohne Schatten/Closed Circuit - 1983
Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson - 1986
What You Mean We? - 1987
Hotel Deutschland - 1992
The Rugrats Movie - 1998 (provided character voice)
Life on a String - 2002
Hidden Inside Mountains - 2006


Television
Saturday Night Live - musical guest 1986 [1]
Alive from Off Center - host 1987


Audiobooks
The Path to Tranquility by His Holiness the Dalai Lama - co-narrator 1999
The Body Artist by Don DeLillo - sole narrator 2001


Bibliography
United States (HarperCollins 1984) ISBN 0-06-091110-7
Stories from the Nerve Bible: A Twenty-Year Retrospective (HarperCollins 1994) ISBN 0-06-055355-3
Dal Vivo (Fondazione Prada 1999) ISBN 88-87029-10-5
Night Life (Edition 7L 2007) ISBN 3-86521-339-1.

Initially trained as a sculptor Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s. She also starred in and directed the 1986 concert film Home of the Brave. Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5 1947) is an American experimental performance artist composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles.

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