Laurie Anderson's urgent performance: love in times of crisis!
Laurie Anderson's urgent performance: love in times of crisis!
Philadelphia, USA - On May 26, 2025, the director Milo Rau announced a fascinating performance by Laurie Anderson, which deals with the ambiguity between the term "state of love" and the "state of love". Anderson, a renowned US performance artist and musician, already worked on Sunday evening at the opening at Rathausplatz and a "Campfire" session. Her performance started with the Mozart Knabenchor and William Billings' "David’s Lamentation", a lament on King David's son Absalom.
In her performance, Anderson addressed the responsibility of the older generation for the destruction of the planet and the role of the younger generation in rescue. In doing so, she built personal stories, meditation rituals, quotes from writers and references to intellectuals in performance. Her criticism of the political changes in the United States, especially under Donald Trump, was unmistakable while she mentioned a list of words that are to be deleted from government documents. Kleine Zeitung reports from Anderson's call, the differences between the anti-war protests of the past and today.political influences and personal memories
A quote from Cornel West about justice and love initiated the central theme of performance. Anderson made her performance with an imaginary conversation with a AI-generated Sigmund Freud and shared a touching childhood memory with her mother. "Music can give love," she emphasized at the end of the evening, which ended with a Tai Chi exercise she had learned from the musician Lou Reed. The audience rewarded this with long -lasting applause.
Anderson's political activism also receives precipitation in their personal career. In 2021 she had rejected the Pina-Bausch professorship at the Folkwang University in Essen, which is due to a debate about her political views. Her support for the call "Letter Against Apartheid", which takes up the boycott claims of the BDS movement, had led to public discussion about her attitude. In a press release, Anderson asked why her political views for the discussion were relevant and emphasized that she decidedly rejected anti -Semitism, human hatred and racism, as the university announced. More about Anderson's art and your decision can be read on fru.de .
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