Laurie Anderson on Delusion

A pioneering storyteller whose ever-intriguing convergence of technology, violin, visuals, and voice creates spellbinding tales, Laurie Anderson (The End of the Moon, 2005 Spring Season; Songs and Stories from Moby Dick, 1999 Next Wave) opens the Next Wave Festival with Delusion. A phantasmagoric world made up of short mystery plays, her latest work is activated by brooding, deeply affecting music redolent of Tibetan temple horns and Arabic strings, performed by Anderson on electronically enhanced violin with supporting virtuoso musicians. A Homeric epic about longing, identity, and memory, Delusion invokes both humor and terror, conjuring up elves, mysteries, ghost ships, and dead relatives to spin poetic stories and imagery into gold.
BAM 2010 Next Wave Festival is part of Diverse Voices at BAM sponsored by Time Warner.

[@ajhoncantara]

I saw the premiere of Delusion at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and it was a cathartic experience. I'll never forget it.

[@astrophonix]

I saw Laurie performing Delusion in Brighton, England on May 26. Absolutely stunning performance, sometimes humourous, sometimes gut-wrenchingly harrowing, but a compulsiveand overwhelming experience I'll never forget.

[@karicrl]

Excellent an artists who brings the message back we are limited creatures dog what you can today

[@zyxonian]

Yay! She's in Mexico City right now! I am going to see her tomorrow!

[@MiqueCapel]

some people are great at deluding themselves, thanks Laurie, make America great again uhh? was it so small...lol

[@raymondnealpascoe7486]

My point sincerely put. "Light in Glass" I hope you connect with ms Ono she blocks away and I believe she sees the purpose. I could be mistaken. Yet, we are having a discussion u are in your tower. That's OK justifiable I know. LOVE

[@ShiloDesireeR]

Laurie Anderson plays with the liminal space between waking and dreaming, but that has nothing to do with the experience of a person who suffers from delusional thinking. I am an artist first, who suffered a head injury and went into a long spell of hallucination and delusional thinking. My artistic expression outside of the construct of the art world led a lot of people to think that THAT was irrational thinking and behavior. On top of that, I had true delusions, patently untrue things held up as a beleif of truth (Delusional thinking is classified as tightly held beliefs which are untrue. ) I think Ms. Anderson is using a misnomer when she uses the word delusion.

[@ninesticks]

LA you are a neat chick

[@spadehatesscrewtube]

how deluded you can be? maybe if i fall asleep. and end up in sharkys day ;p
or on snl .