Press Release: Sensoria is delighted to welcome Laurie Anderson to Sheffield to present her new solo work, ANOTHER DAY IN AMERICA (aka Dirtday!). This is a rare opportunity to experience a premiere performance of a new solo work by one of the seminal artists of our time. Laurie Anderson's genre-crossing work encompasses performance, film, music, installation, writing, photography and sculpture.
ANOTHER DAY IN AMERICA UK PREMIERE
New Solo Work
Performance Saturday 21st April 8pm at Sheffield City Hall
There will also be a special, pre-festival Artist Talk by Laurie on Friday 20th April at Upper Chapel.
Continuing her groundbreaking work with voice filters, story telling and music, Another Day in America will feature Anderson's stories about life in contemporary America. Politics, desire, portraits of cities and people combine with Anderson's hallucinatory use of language to make up an epic description of the current American landscape.
"Politicians are essentially story tellers. They describe the world as it is and also as they think it should be. As a fellow story teller, it seems like a really good time to think about how words can literally create the world."
Tickets are available from Sheffield City Hall box office tel. 0114 2789 789 or online from http://www.sheffieldcityhall.co.... (Performance tickets available and limited availability combined tickets for both Performance and Talk can be obtained)
A limited number of tickets for the Talk only are available from www.eventbrite.com
Laurie opens a 10-day festival that will also welcome Bill Drummond, presenting his exhibition Ragworts at Site Gallery, plus a walk and talk event also on 21st April. The full festival line up ranges from Scanner to DJ Stingray and the full programme will be announced mid March.
