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Laurie Anderson: Building an ARK
Uploaded by EMPAC in Troy
Laurie Anderson, production still from ARK.
In this free talk presentation, renowned artist and musician Laurie Anderson reveals the process behind her newest music-theater work, ARK, while she is at EMPAC for a final production residency before its world premiere in Manchester in November. Described as “a hallucinatory incantation on history and time, a dark comedy for the end of the world,” the opera stars a host of mythical and contemporary figures. Anderson’s subjects in ARK—apocalyptic climate events, technology and information overload, American history—are warped into a story that plays with the flow of time and poses questions about the survival of the human spirit.
