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Ellen Stone Belic New Frontiers Program: Laurie Anderson, O Superwoman - Chicago Humanities Festival

Interview

Advance tickets are no longer available online or by phone for this program. Tickets will be available at the door tonight, November 2. A $5 surcharge applies to all door tickets.

Performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson fuses art and technology. A pioneer across many genres, she has developed instruments such as a violin with recorded magnetic tape in its bow; pushed digital boundaries in the visual arts, as in the path-breaking BBC series The Human Face; and served as NASA’s first artist-in-residence, inspiring her epic work The End of the Moon. The constant in her ever-shifting artistic exploration is the confounding of our expectations, from the symphony of car horns that started her career to her recent Music for Dogs, audible only to our canine companions. Anderson reflects on an extraordinary career in a conversation with Steppenwolf Theatre artistic director Martha Lavey.

Read the CHF Blog post about this program.

This program is generously underwritten by Ellen Stone Belic and is presented in partnership with Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women & Gender in the Arts & Media, Columbia College Chicago.

98.7 WFMT is the media sponsor for this event.

Partnership support is also provided by the Chicago International Movies and Music Festival.

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Through displacement, juxtaposition, and/or hacking of the familiar Siebren Versteeg’s work creates contexts which encourage its viewers to actively engage in their relationship to the ever-increasing flow of images, media, and technology which surround them. Versteeg was born in New Haven, CT and received his MFA from the University of Illinois, Chicago in 2004. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Currently Versteeg is an artist in residence at the Smart Project Space in Amsterdam.

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