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Some might say that Laurie Anderson has always been multimedia. Her work has always been concerned with the use of technology and the individual s relationship to it. From her early one person shows at New York s Kitchen to the hit record O Superman to the ambitious truly multi media Untied States series of stage shows she has traversed the boundaries between performance art installation recording artist and filmmaking while incorporating aspects of all these areas into each discipline.
Nothing like the Holiday Inn the 31 rooms in Puppet Motel are the luminous way stations of Laurie Anderson's mind at work. Shadows race nebulae swirl words turn to smoke electrical outlets whisper for attention and time travels both ways. Play four radically altered electronic violins splice a film out of original Anderson images edit Dostoyevsky start a novel Designer Hsm Chien Huang's breathtakingly beautiful spaces shift and dissolve inviting you to join alter or record the experience in an almost infinite number of ways Puppet Motel takes interaction beyond moving.