Norton Lecture 3: Rocks | Laurie Anderson: Spending the War Without You

Laurie Anderson presents Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds. Rocks is the third in a series of six lectures, looking at the challenges we face as artists and citizens as we reinvent our culture with ambiguity and beauty. The talk will consider language, lyrics and the narrator. About the Speakers Presented by Laurie Anderson, one of America’s most renowned – and daring – creative pioneers. Known primarily for her multimedia presentations, she has cast herself in roles as varied as visual artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, electronics whiz, vocalist, and instrumentalist. Moderated by Salman Rushdie, the author of fourteen novels, including Quichotte, Midnight’s Children, and The Satanic Verses. About the Norton Lectures The Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry was endowed in 1925. Harvard’s preeminent lecture series in the arts and humanities, the Norton Lectures recognize individuals of extraordinary talent who, in addition to their parti