Habeas Corpus by Laurie Anderson

~ JezzieG

Habeas Corpus
2015
Performance Art
Performed at the Park Avenue Armory, New York City

A collaboration between Anderson and Mohammed El Gharani, “Habeas Corpus,” consisted of a video installation and soundtrack. Gharani is a former Guantánamo Bay prisoner, whose story Anderson discovered through the human rights organisation Reprieve. He was arrested at aged 14 and was imprisoned for 7 years before all charges were dropped in 2009. In “Habeas Corpus,” Gharani is present through a live video transmitted from West Africa, interspersed with pre-recorded video clips cast onto a white film sculpture with swirling drones created by Anderson’s partner Lou Reed.

Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson
Performance Art, Installation Art, Video Art
Born: 5 June 1947, Illinois, USA
Nationality: American

Laurie Anderson is an avant-garde artist, composer, musician, and film director. Her work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained as a violinist and in sculpting, Anderson pursued a variety of performance art projects in 1970s New York, particularly focusing on language, visual imagery, and technology. Anderson became widely known in 1981 when her single “O Superman” became a hit

Published by JezzieG

I am a freelance writer and poet and started writing after raising my two boys as a way of discovering just who Jez is. That is still very much an ongoing project but the journey so far has introduced me to many wonderful friends and fellow writers through an ever-growing love of poetry.