Laurie Anderson 1993

Laurie Anderson discussed ‘Stories from the Nerve Bible’ a retrospective spanning her first 20 years as a popular and acclaimed performance artist. She talks about traveling to Europe with Talented Teen USA, teaching art and making up stories behind the slides, a very early work called ‘Time to Go’ about a guard who must go around when the museum closes to snap people out of their art daze, her plan to open a hardware store, the balance between art and commerce, how her one hit ‘Oh Superman’ was appropriated by a car theft alarm company, the artist as a spy, why she enjoys being clumsy on stage, her skepticism about the internet, and how art can hurt you.