Laurie Anderson will soon have a permanent space to display and create her work.
The Massachusetts Museum of Modern Art has made 15 to 25 year agreements with six artists to fill 90,000 square feet of new space that has been acquired by the institute. When it opens in 2017, it will make the museum the second largest in the U.S. behind the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The pacts were made to expand at a minimal cost, filling museum space with existing collections rather than trying to piecemeal together pieces from a large number of sources. Also contributing to the new space are James Turrell, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Easton Foundation and Jenny Holzer.
Anderson’s space will be more than just a place to display works. The museum is creating a production studio where visitors can watch Anderson create new works along with seeing past items from her collection including instruments, paintings and costumes.
Laurie Anderson has been at the forefront of performance art since the late-60’s, creating not only performance pieces, but recording her own music and innovating in the world of instrumentation. Among her inventions are the tape-bow violin, an instrument that is played with a bow that is strung with magnetic tape and uses a tape head in the bridge of the instrument, the talking stick, a wireless MIDI instrument that can record and manipulate sound, and the concept of audio drag, the deepening of her vocals to a masculine level.
Among Anderson’s recordings are Big Science (1982 / #124 U.S. / #29 U.K.), Mister Heartbreak (1984 / #60 U.S. / #93 U.K.) and Strange Angels (1989 / #171 U.S.).
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