Laurie Anderson ( RBMA 2015 Paris Lecture)

On November 16th, 2015, Laurie Anderson joined us on the lecture couch in Paris the wake of the devastating attacks in the city the previous weekend. She felt it was an important moment to talk about how art and artists respond to tragedy. In this talk, she outlined the circumstances behind her 2015 Park Avenue Armory work, Habeas Corpus, and how its themes relate to what took place in Paris on November 13, 2015. Back in the 70s, Anderson had a lot of fun playing with peoples perceptions of what a music