ENGL 40761 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Laurie Anderson, Marcel Duchamp, William S. Burroughs
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4/26/2017- Laurie Anderson
• Anderson Audio Clip from 2003: poets
o Anne Carson- Autobiography of Red
o Ginsberg
o Stein and Dylan
▪ e lie to repeat
• Anderson and Collage (Home of the Brave)
o Performance collage: dancing, movie, poetry reading, etc (Gesamtkunstwerk [Wagner]-
the artwork that includes everything)
o Mask/ altered voice= filter, gender ambiguity
▪ A cross between an insurance salesman and Richard Nixon
▪ William Burroughs
o Crossing genders & mixing humanity with machinery
▪ Is moving away from gender binary a step towards human machine binary?
▪ Removal of gender (unisex/ gender neutral) vs flipping of gender
• Blur the idea of gender: there is not much space between 0 and 1
o Where does life end and art begin?
▪ Marcel Duchamp- urinal art piece
▪ John Cage- all sound is music
▪ We must understand the aesthetic qualities of our own experiences
o Sound story
▪ How to use an instrument, perverting the idea of how to play an instrument
• Rubber guitar
• Knife + fork= consuming music, necessity of music in life
▪ Everything is music
▪ Objects symbols characters: what is a word? Pictographic language,
choreographic language
▪ Visuals match rhythm
▪ Invention
o Language of Love
▪ Adam and Eve twist
o Labcoat Performance
▪ A parody, careful mockery
▪ Whatever performance, people find meaning in meaninglessness
▪ Experimentation, demonstrate creativity despite intense musical background
o Language is a virus
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