Laurie Anderson: Go Where You Look: The Weather and Other Stories

The Weather and Other Stories is a survey of the work of legendary artist Laurie Anderson in her own words.At heart a storyteller, the artist serves as a personal guide through two of her most ambitious recent exhibitions that span fifty years of work: The Weather at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Looking into a Mirror Sideways at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Anderson reveals the creative impulses behind her many iconic works and introduces new bodies of work in detail.From the iconic Drum Dance and the violin duets of Duets on Ice to her cutting-edge experiments with virtual reality and artificial intelligence, the book explores how Anderson 'puts things into words and words into things.' She provides behind-the-scenes insights into major installations like Habeas Corpus, which examines justice through the story of a Guantanamo detainee, and Salute, an animatronic display of red flags symbolizing a nation in upheaval.New works include a project centered on the life an