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Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson presents short plays Wednesday for Stanford Lively Arts

AS IF BEING MARRIED to Lou Reed wasn’t enough, Laurie Anderson has chosen a strange and perilous path as an artist. As performance art’s original cyberpunk (or, perhaps, cyberpunk’s original performance artist), she could have done just fine milking the robochic of her unlikely pop hit, “O Superman.” But talk to her for a little while and you realize she is maybe the most genuinely curious person on the planet. She’s let her endlessly questioning spirit guide her through three decades of fascinating, thought-provoking and (though she rarely gets credit for it) very funny performance pieces. She endures not because she’s some kind of high-and-mighty intellectual, but because underneath the circuitry, her questions are the questions we all have, at some level. Her entertaining, self-deprecating way of asking and attempting to answer them allows us to indulge our natural curiosity, too. Anderson’s newest piece, “Delusion,” is a series of short plays co-commissioned by Stanford Lively Arts that debuted at the Winter Olympics this year and has its West Coast premiere on Wednesday.

Stanford Memorial Auditorium
Wednesday, May 5, 8pm
Tickets : $10-$60