Laurie Anderson. Dal Vivo. Riflessioni su una performance artist concettuale

In the age of the most accelerated media techniques of video and computer that has unhinged the concept of representation, the essay enters the debate between real and the virtual body through a reflection on the Laurie Anderson’s media installation “Live” . The US artist makes an artistic operation in which she teleports a prisoner from the city prison to the gallery, involving some central aspects of the human condition of our present, as a result of his coherent artistic path. In fact, the theme of her work is the being, in the more obvious daily contradictions where the man in the street is located, on which are grafted a series of questions to which the answer is never a given, but requires an human position, a series of paths and judgments that transform the artistic performance in a conceptual fact. The world of art is interwoven with the universe of life, offering a contribution to its understanding in its most deeply repressed aspects.