... a sustained, unrelenting key of C."

"Anderson herself is fully conscious of this turn or
transition in her work. "Like many people," she says, "I
slept through the Reagan Era politically."

When I woke up, everything looked really different.
Homeless men and women were living on the streets of
New York, hundreds of thousands of Americans were dead
or dying of AIDS,

and the national mood was
characterized by fear, intolerance, and straight-ahead
greed. Suddenly everything seemed deeply unfamiliar.
Was this really my country?

I decided to write about
this new place, not because I had any solutions, but
because I needed to understand how and why things had
changed.^6^

[10] In _Empty Places_
Anderson continued ...."

LAURIE ANDERSON AND THE POLITICS OF PERFORMANCE

by

WOODROW B. HOOD

http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/dept/l...PMC/4/top.html

"It's an old glory when a toenail crocodile
named Greta Gabo

boasts that any tall
thumb tucking

pimple popper
still in touch

with the bottom of his atavistic roots
will soon be rented out

to the King of pencil Toads
and his last iron caravan

Dairy wolves howl
at empty spoon

while I sleep ..."

~ John Yau,
From "Buffalo and Marshmallos"

http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/dept/l...PMC/4/top.html

"The hauntings laced themselves into another year,
Grew into miracles and fertilized the grass.
Spinning absent-mindedly,

A thump and a rattle intercepting my dream,
I clutched in fury to my story,
And, uncertain on which side of the glass I had landed,

I turned the page to the first window and climbed through.
A cord by which a weight is suspended
To test the perpendicularity or depth of a thought.

Anything resembling a plume
Or feather ..."

~ Virginia Hooper,
From "Hauntings"

http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/dept/l...PMC/4/top.html

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Not to you, for you hear, O, so,
Well!?
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"It's about staying alert,
Keeping a conversation on track
And bringing in many voices.

It is not primarily about raising fists.
It's about extracting things from the world,
Gently, and then putting them back,
But with new meaning, like manipulated ready-mades.

Duchamp had a really good grasp of all this,
And he's still broadcasting.

Mr. Tiravanija, in his own different way,
Understands it, too.

Join this wire of mine
To that wire of yours to that wire of theirs.
And once we're connected,
The power goes on."

~ Holland Cotter,
From "Work Whose Medium Is Indeed
Its Message,"
From The New York Times
3.18.2005
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