Laurie Anderson in Albuquerque
presented by 516 ARTS, AMP Concerts & UNM ARTS Lab in conjunction with LAND/ART
June 9 & 10, 2009
Laurie Anderson is one of the seminal artists of our time. Her genre-crossing work encompasses performance, film, music, installation, writing, photography and sculpture. Anderson will perform Burning Leaves: A Retrospective of Song and Stories at the KiMo Theatre, followed by a reception at 516 ARTS, where her piece Hidden Inside Mountains will be featured, which "uses telegraphic language to describe the scale and sensuality of nature." The next night she will participate in a talk and screening on the dome of the Plantarium addressing how artists are working with scientific technologies.
Dome Projections + Discussions in the Planetarium
Tuesday, June 9, 7pm & 9pm
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
1801 Mountain Road NW
For ticket information, visit ampconcerts.org
Burning Leaves: A Retrospective of Song and Stories
Wednesday, June 10, 7pm
KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Avenue NW, Downtown Albuquerque
followed by a reception at 516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave SW
Tickets available from Ticketmaster and the KiMo Theatre Box Office
Dome Projections + Discussions - Hidden Inside Mountains will also be shown on the immersive planetarium dome at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History on June 09, along with highlighted artists' videos created for the dome technology featured for DomeFest. Laurie Anderson will introduce the evening with a short talk on the interaction of art, technology and science.
Burning Leaves on June 10 is an intimate evening of voice, electronics and violin, including pieces from Anderson's acclaimed solo shows The Speed of Darkness, Happiness, The End of the Moon and Homeland. As NASA's first artist-in-residence, Anderson draws on her recent research and travels. Her performance explores the contemporary meanings of freedom and time as well as the tangled ways in which we decide what is beautiful now.
Following the performance at the KiMo Theatre on June 10, there will be a post-show reception at 516 ARTS, where Laurie Anderson's video Hidden Inside Mountains will be featured as part of Here & There: Seeing New Ground (June 2 - July 11), a group exhibition for LAND/ART landartnm.org.
For information on upcoming activities with Laurie Anderson in Santa Fe, please contact the Santa Fe Art Institute: sfai.org