Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds by Laurie Anderson

Renowned, daring, trailblazer artist, Laurie Anderson, will be our online guest. In her work, she has donned the roles of visual artist, performer, storyteller, composer, poet, filmmaker, electronics whiz, vocalist, and instrumentalist.

She will guide you through her dreamscapes taking the long way round and pondering about books, music, life, memory, perception, and endless other subjects.

She tries to create online work that is ‘as lively as possible’ and make us forget the limitations of life during a pandemic.

Three lectures which were part of the Norton Lecture Series at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, look at the challenges we face as artists and citizens as we try to reinvent our culture with ambiguity and beauty.

Lecture 1: The River | Laurie Anderson: Spending the War Without You>>>

Lecture 2: The Forest | Laurie Anderson: Spending the War Without You>>>

Lecture 3: Rocks | Laurie Anderson: Spending the War Without You>>>

The lectures will be available to watch online August 24 - September 18 

About the Norton Lectures

The Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry was endowed in 1925. Harvard’s preeminent lecture series in the arts and humanities, the Norton Lectures recognize individuals of extraordinary talent who, in addition to their particular expertise, have the gift of wide dissemination and wise expression. The term “poetry” is interpreted in the broadest sense to encompass all poetic expression in language, music, or the fine arts.