Published: June 05, 2010
Op-Ed Contributor
Performance Artist Laurie Anderson Performs Concert For Dogs
By Robert Paul Reyes
"Hundreds of dogs and their owners have descended on the Sydney Opera House for a concert specifically for canines.
Organisers say the event, the work of American musician and artist Laurie Anderson, is the first of its kind.
Ms Anderson called it 'an inter-species social gathering on a scale never seen before in Australia'.
It featured the cries of whales and high-pitched electronic sounds inaudible to human ears, accompanied by a bass guitar and violin."
Performance art is avant-garde and cutting-edge, it's usually not for the feint of heart. Laurie Anderson is arguably the most famous performance artist in the world, but at 63 she's way too old to get away shocking an audience. When Anderson does something strange or unusual on stage, most people aren't going to exclaim "That's so avant-garde!". They will laugh and say, that old bat must be senile.
Anderson has been around forever, it's time she gave up the spotlight to younger and more exciting performance artists. Anderson's stunt was for the dogs, give it up Anderson!
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