"Can You Say Hello?" Laurie Anderson's "United States"
1986; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 38; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3208048
ISSN1086-332X
Autores Tópico(s)Theatre and Performance Studies
ResumoSearching for a whereabouts on a darkened nightclub stage, the voice of Laurie Anderson casts us deep into the precarious loneliness and awkwardness of postmodem space. It is here that saying hello sounds life -threatening, that initiating conversation can seem at once natural and mindlessly flippant, while disintegrating into a number of confusing tonalities and gestures bordering on nightmare. A postmodern United States. Which is to say, a postmodern unification and minimalization of experiential states, a voyage into those common experiences within which the reduction of meaning and neutralization of apprehension betrays uneasy polyvalences. Call it the exacerbation of deadpan.
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