Locarno to Celebrate Laurie Anderson With Lifetime Achievement Award
26.04.2022 - 14:19
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Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Locarno Film Festival will celebrate U.S. musician, performance artist and filmmaker Laurie Anderson with its lifetime achievement award dedicated to creative pioneers.The prominent Swiss fest dedicated to international indie cinema will be feting Anderson with its Vision Award Ticinomoda, and screening her two feature-length films, “Heart of a Dog” (2015) which is dedicated to Lou Reed, and the restored 4K version of “Home of the Brave” (1986).Anderson will be given the award on Aug.
10 during a ceremony on Locarno’s Piazza Grande that will be followed by an onstage conversation on Aug. 11.Locarno in a statement praised Anderson as “an artist who has made inventiveness and experimentation the hallmarks of her career,” underlining that she’s been a leading figure in the U.S.
avant-garde since the 1970s. “Anderson has spent five decades exploring the potential of multimedia and innovative technology in the arts, through collaborations with William S.
Burroughs, John Cage, Philip Glass, Brian Eno, Wim Wenders, Peter Gabriel, Jean-Michel Jarre and Lou Reed, her late great husband, among many others,” the festival noted.Born in Glenn Ellyn, Illinois, in 1947, Anderson trained in both music and sculpture and broke out on the American avant-garde scene in the 1970s. Her recording career started getting traction in 1981 with the release of “O Superman,” segued by several other albums such as “Big Science” (1982), “Life on a String” (2001) and “Homeland” (2010).
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