Laurie Anderson: We have to Imagine Different ways to Describe the Ends of Things

The American artist Laurie Anderson participates in Arctic Imagination - an artistic brainstorm across the Atlantic about the disappearing ice and rising temperatures.
In only 100 years, the Arctic and the North Pole have been transformed from highly dangerous and mysterious peripheral areas into regions that need our protection and sense of responsibility. In 2017, six major libraries in New York, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo and Nuuk are combining in Arctic Imagination in a unique collaboration across the Atlantic, in which a number of high-profile artistic and creative voices will contribute to a global brainstorming within this area.
Read more on www.arcticimagination.com

[@chinneths1]

As an English teacher, I want to speak as Laurie speaks... write as she writes.... and sing as she sings... She is a TREASURE!

[@wollienudge5253]

That is true, says a gernan dreamer from Cologne⚘

[@3lueant347]

I got to spend a good part of a day with Laurie at Mason Gross School of the Arts in the early 80s. I sure fell in love. This was before her first record "Oh Superman" and she was kind, inspiring , authentic present and funny. I am so lucky to have had that time with her and to this day I find her to be a treasure. A hero of conscious beauty. Thank you for this.

[@rozbourboulithra]

She is so beautiful!! I like the clarity in her eyes and her kind smile!

[@laledavidson5248]

Oddly, it was her story of accepting our extinction that woke me up, made me set aside my fiction writing, and start fighting harder to save the planet and ourselves. She is likely right, that we are beyond hope, but since we don't know the outcome, I'm going to act in accordance with the belief that we CAN mitigate climate change.

[@robertpayne4033]

"save the planet..." Hmmm....

[@antfactor]

​@@robertpayne4033 Perhaps we cannot "save the planet" (per se) for human existence (as countless other lifeforms will outlive us, still)... but if we can help make enough people present, and accountable to our current trajectory, perhaps we can help delay that reality a bit longer. Unlikely, perhaps, but a noble and worthwhile goal. By most measures of science, we are clearly in the midst of the Earth's 6th global extinction.

[@robertpayne4033]

@@antfactor - ah. Another who believes whatever that screen in the corner of every living room pumps out. What "trajectory" is that, then? And, what "6th global extinction"? Historical records show that the average rate for species to become extinct is between 200 and 2,000 species per year; presently, the rate is around 20.

[@ingridgilbert4917]

Humanity has an opportunity here to realize our place in nature and stop fighting all other life here and treating it like "resources". The rest of life around us seems to know how to coexist, we "intelligent" humans are the only ones screwing it up. All we have to do is stop.

[@eddieross2379]

She has always been an inspiration for me , ever since by music teacher introduced me to her in the 1980's .

[@alexandraw.4012]

This made me cry so thoroughly. I had never cried like that before. Beautiful.

[@j.e.d500]

Yes I had similar experience. Came across this by chance

[@joycetyner7643]

This must surely be one of the smartest people ever to hit this PLANET !!!

[@eldoabrahamson]

How so?

[@znostreet5313]

Guy McPherson is voicing the same narrative and is hated for it.

[@williamthazard]

"Who am I talking to" is a question I've been thinking about a lot lately with regard to my own writing. What does it mean to commit words to paper in a time without posterity? I appreciate Laurie's grappling with that question here, even if an answer isn't readily available, perhaps especially because an answer isn't readily available. This isn't an answer, but I think the question has refocused my attention on how my work might practice kindness toward the people around me in the present. Laurie's work has always done that exceptionally well. It isn't always nice, but it's always deeply kind

[@scot_smith]

LA fan here! I just adore her lovely, creative and tender spirit! Not that I understand or agree with her but just feel a lot of positive energy. There was another great mind of the 20th century who suggested that, as it is obvious that we have always, through time, been brutal and destructive to ourselves, others and nature; and that to understand and face this problem of mankind we must first face ourselves, for the story of mankind therein lies. I need to learn how to read that book of myself, deeply and comprehensively. I don’t know if this will work either but at least feel it is the one thing anyone is capable of and unless I deeply change, everything continues as has always been but on larger and larger scales.

[@franziskaseyranian5220]

Thank you Laurie so much for these words! I hope that more and more human beings will realise what the point truely is and what's bringing us forward and what's stopping them to see clearly. I know, that my words leave space for interpretation - and that's my intention - to make you think... With love, F

[@paintpaper9]

Thank you💖🦋

[@sugarlove]

i just love you Laurie xxxxxxxxx

[@paulbrocklehurst2346]

Laurie's advice remiinds me of Franklin D. Roosevelt's advice: “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” It may not sound as great as we might want it a piece of advice to sound & it's very possible if not probable that it could be next to useless but under the circumstances we happen to find ourselves in & the magnitude of the problem we've created for ourselves as Homosapien (Latin for "Wise man" _I wish!_ ) I guess it just _might_ be better than no advice at all... perhaps.

[@antfactor]

wow - she's amazing. always.

[@FunForAllification]

As the 17,000th viewer born on the 17th and lover of this person - I am exalted. "Go anyway" friends!

[@joycetyner7643]

Laurie is the BEST - will make you THINK - CREATIVITY BUZZES !!!

[@joycetyner7643]

I love her so much !!

[@TheEternauta1972]

LOVE LAURIE ANDERSON. VIOLINISTA, BAILARINA, ACTRIZ, CANTANTE, STORYTELLER, COMPOSITORA, DISERTADORA, DECLAMADORA, CAPO-ORADORA, CINEASTA Y FILOSOFA EXQUISITA...YOU HAVE EVERYTHING I ADMIRE...

[@Akindone53]

So lovely.

[@David_P132]

Love her to bits.

[@RobertoTifi]

Laurie is the way "God" shows s/he loves the world... Laurie is a gift! Laurie is a treasure!

[@annamonaco5959]

Brava Larie!

[@virginiarusso7387]

Te admiro!

[@karmabhutia706]

A true Artist...👏👏👏

[@voidmoon.]

Thank you so much from the buttom of my heart.. You are amazing and beyond beautiful..

[@joycetyner7643]

Joyce say now.... finally....a mind I envy !! Intimidated so Lou !!!!

[@paulsnelson]

UNDERSTANDING OF TIME AND OUR PLACE IN TIME. YOU WERE A HERSHEY BAR IN YOUR FATHER'S BACK POCKET, A TINY SPEC, JUST A DOT. NOW LOOK ON THE HORIZON AT YOUR TRAJECTORY. YOU ARE SPEC ON THE HORIZON. THIS VISION IS PRICELESS AND A FORMULA FOR TIMELESSNESS. THANK YOU. YOU ARE TRULY THE ENGLISH SPEAKER'S GLOBAL GUIDE AND MATRIARCH. DEEP APPRECIATION & ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FOR YOUR GENEROSITY, LUMINOSITY, CLARITY & SENSE OF AUTHENTIC HUMOR. YOU ARE TRULY A NATIONAL LIVING TREASURE AMONG US, A TOUCHSTONE, TO BE REVERED. LISTEN HEAR HER HERE Y'ALL. THIS IS THE TIME AND THIS IS THE RECORD OF THE TIME. IF YOU ARE LISTENING: PLS LEARN & AWAKEN. ACT NOW.

[@MountedDragoon]

Somebody should show her Death Stranding, because it's exactly what she's talking about.

[@dama9150]

It's a really good point that I've been thinking about a lot... all our stories now are comedies (in the classic sense), we no longer tell tragedies. All our stories have happy endings, we're living in the delusion (we're the only animals capable of self-delusion) that somehow everything happening now will somehow magically work out. It won't.

[@wieslaw111]

Laurie, listen to people who had NDEs, at least the first phase of being dead was fantastic for some of them. Out of body experience, feeling unconditional love, peace , life review concerning the moral aspect of life, seeing light. If there is any continuation to this no one knows, but what would be the reason for a dying brain to do a moral evaluation of life, to see dead relatives? The dying brain would not care. If you really would like to find out what it is like before dying you can use Ibogaine, it sometimes causes states identical with those of NDe.

[@Lilithblues]

Beautiful, I love you

[@twochaudiomg2578]

You said it. There cycles Come back ,,come back

[@MarkConnely]

Our personal extinction will happen for each of us before the collective extinction will, but both are inevitable, if our observation of what has come before are any guide, and really, they are they only guide we have. It's important to how you live your life that you accept your own mortality, not in order to prepare for the moment of death itself. It's unlikely you'll meet that with your eyes open and wits about you. People don't generally die intact and being able to reflect upon what is happening. And like every other species, we will go extinct. So, as she says here, slowing down our arrival to that point makes sense.

[@cmasseylynch]

Thank you ! I was pleased to hear this . I sent Pope Francis details/diagrams/tech info on the Methane erupting in the Arctic..he is interested ....as you can imagine....thank you again Laurie.(from cambridge uk)x=X

[@SarahJoRDR2]

Talk of coincidence. I have a CD and played the Superman song for the first time yesterday, today This Video popped up. Universe Small?

[@fencefriend]

Warming is a planet from outer space... Nibiru... (look into it) ...My love Laurie, I think you're great!

[@johngerity]

Is that the picture?

[@xxcelr8rs]

Lou Reed? That's wild.

[@manyhumbles]

what's the opposite of exodus>? ARRIVAL (as in us you and me as the the new human standing up and breaking down every limitation we ever agreed to impose upon our beautiful species called humanity for simple sakes)... We are the light that is unstoppable and we are the extinction of our old ways of perceiving (as Laurie Anderson so eloquently said we can use our imaginations and speak differently about how we write our own endings) It was never the endings that scared me as much as the continuation of status quo living like most do now for very long is intolerable to my senses so colors away and shape the divine play madness this way its all okay as long as we know when to say it's OUR PLAY (dang it) we write it - script it and star in it.

[@paulbrocklehurst7253]

Did Buddha say anything about other universes or simply other states of consciousness which Laurie is interpreting the way some cosmologists interpret a multiverse or cyclical universe model?

[@JSTNtheWZRD]

I may be wrong, but alot of people are considered intelligent based on hype or glamor. This is a perfect example.

[@hraj283]

[@biegebythesea6775]

you need to sort out the volume man

[@tribudeuno]

I think we should be towing the icebergs that are breaking off from the polar ice caps to places in the world that are having water supply issues. Once there, melt them down and put the water into storage facilities...

[@TheSebiestor]

and desalinate the oceans as you do so hence speeding up climate change ..a dumb idea proposed in the 60s/70s

[@timothypruitt4578]

Salvage-1

[@imid-ltd]

Physicists claim that our problem is lack of symmetry. That dark matter and mass as we know it are out of sync, and that to remedy the problem we simply need to align with it.

[@TheHermeticHermit]

Speaking about the Schumann resonance field, on one level what we are dealing amid here is a direct current electromagnet chemical, chrysalis, substrate-sponge; that is continually broadcasting and receiving through its temples of thought, inter-playing as an antenna array from the inside out; utilizing the torodial energy pulses that resonate of each pro-cell interacting along and among an individual perspective and a under-laying unified retrospective, and being that the main whole on the construct is currently utilizing the alternating electric field, as an extended nervous system; which periodically reverses direction and can be an un-grounded source of transmission in continual flux and resistance; being that in contrast to the natural constant direct current; which flows only in one direction? As we are all connected in a quantum phase field, radiating psychic impressions in a compression toroidal vortex of unseen plasmatic light filaments, that we are passing through continually, which we can only seem to relate to as black and white holes collapsing upon themselves around us, while continually interchanging on a vibrational Cosmic level of all possible fields of perception forward and backward through space and time and generating all of our realities of the us simultaneously, as if it were just a painting on our illusional mind's eye of our perceptional senses, in a spectrum of a hued relayed tesseract interplay of interactions that juxtapose against each other, while seeking all knowledge of every possible connection of all parallel dimensions simultaneously for the seeking of continuous wisdom, truth, and also it seems love, while generating and pulsating in the tendrils of the weave of what seems to be all infinities and eternities that are being perceived by all thought in matter of existence at once, as upon a mirror looking back into itself through all our eyes and every feeling that we have. What is your name?” And he said, 'Jacob.' Then he said, 'Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.' Then Jacob asked him, 'Please tell me your name.' But he said, 'Why is it that you ask my name?' And there he blessed him. So Jacob called the name of the place pineal, saying, 'For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.' The sun rose upon him as he passed pineal. Jacob be nimble, Jacob be quick, And Jacob jump over the candle stick. When the promise which is made to us, that we 'see face to face,' shall come. 'Now we see through a glass darkly,' and 'in part;' but when both people, now purified, now raised again, now crowned, now changed into an immortal form, and into everlasting incorruption, shall see God face to face, and Jacob shall be no more, but there shall be Israel only; then shall the Lord see him in the person of this holy Nathanael, and shall say, 'Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. ♡ alba tegeder cella deigja ♡ fjöl ♡ hlafweard doͤr redeget abla ♡ ♡ α ♡ φ ♡ χ ♡ ψ ♡ ρ ♡ π ♡ ω ♡ ♡ metamorphosis osmosis torus ♡ kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2fKZI2Zos99bc0 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJPGfIJvZ7R6hKs symbios @ www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/phi3DGeom.html www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibrab.html ♡ gust call mE3 Yishma ♡ el ♡ kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6S4noOMeK91fs0

[@TheHermeticHermit]

two more links for the adaption process of the pro cells that are the us four the plant that is earth our hearth and heart the alchemical process of the human body adapted from the combination of the divine feminine and masculine allows to touch the pineal or bringing both halves of the heart and mind back together in unity. no enmity. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic to adapt we must combine both realities a symbiosis in harmony threw metamorphosis chaos and order and material and thought all energies wile keeping individuation organic thought merger among and along artificial in pro cess for pro cells : example amoeba genus Chaos representation of Truth known as Eris. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_(genus)

[@tompouceful]

Great, but I don't live in Israel. What to do? What to do?

[@ELPATERNO]

Me gustaría ayudarte con el problema de no saber qué vendrá después de tu final y del gran final. Lamentablemente nos dificulta mucho tener acceso a más información si estamos peleados de manera inflexible con la tecnología.------------Te hago un desafío muy instructivo que te abrirá incontables puertas para abrir y explorar, pero "hay que ser consecuentes con la furia" y no descartar ni permitir que nuestros prejuicios censuren ninguna oportunidad por conocer algo de lo que precisamente ignoramos, al menos hasta no tener un cuadro general de la "caja de pandora" que vamos a abrir. Escribe la palabra INFINITO en google y en youtube y luego repito: " ser consecuente con la furia " profundiza en todo, "bébetelo bien" y al final no te quedes sin aliento, elige tu camino.

[@kcajmortsnnew1488]

TEND YOUR GARDEN........i think karma is as absurd an invention as heaven i regret buddhism in most of its' varieties became a religion belief is death still , love this person

[@theother1406]

Time to Graduate to The Bhagavad-Gita as it is and The Srimad Bhagavatam.

[@joemeyer6876]

A Grand Solar Minimum Vocoder

[@5077Clara]

j'adore cette femme... !!! mais je n'ai rien appri de ce monologue.

[@4-dman464]

She goes to places Stanley Kubrick didn't dare to go

[@eldoabrahamson]

What an odd thing to say.

[@joycetyner7643]

Who are her PARENTS ???

[@louised9396]

Almighty God the Creator will preserve His creation. Turn to Him and to Jesus and you will be preserved as well.

[@AnalogNoiseLab]

Elon Musk will fix it. We go to Mars. I stay. I am ready to go

[@stephenvinson6474]

I encourage Elon Musk to be the first one to go!!

[@rosies3622]

Well, Elon Musk, maybe...other thinkers, scientists, may well find a way for humanity to survive whether on earth or other planets..galaxies...parallel universes, even...BUT I like that Laurie can see the possibility of Earth becoming uninhabitable to humans, most sentient beings...this may well be the course of things, regardless of human's hurrying the process by contributing to heating the planet's atmosphere...NOTHING is permanent... that is wisdom to remember.

[@ProgRockNerd]

But going to Mars isn't fixing it.

[@marcosabadi3824]

Purpose, eternity. God. Jesus Christ. There is no meaning without faith. There is no faith with eternal meaning, if I am in the center of that path.

[@eldoabrahamson]

That is an eloquent load of shit.

[@marcosabadi3824]

@@eldoabrahamson Respect. 😘

[@scotrichardson2048]

I'm sorry what did she say? I nodded off.

[@jakeschmell]

Rubbish. As far as the eye can see.. Rubbish...

[@da4]

Jeezus Why can’t musicians stick to music