Laurie Anderson | "Hearring", 1997 | (for Parkett 49)
This small-scale sculptural sound work is to be worn like an earpiece, and delivers a short message of the artist playing the violin and whispering in the listener’s ear.
Read a Parkett Text on Laurie Anderson
Parkett Vol. 49
Quote from Parkett
“Firmly rooted in time and in the world, her art explores a territory between keen wakefulness and (day)-dreams, where things of the real world and visions together penetrate consciousness, where perception stimulates dreams, and dreams sharpen perception. …For almost three decades, ceaselessly circling themes and motifs in text, image, and music have been coupled in Laurie Anderson’s performances and installations with new material, forever evolving in a cosmology-in-flux, in the endless flow of a great work in progress.”
Jacqueline Burckhardt, Parkett No. 49, 1997
Additional Quote
“Anderson's ingenious multiple takes the form of a seemingly decorative earring made up of a lithium battery, a circuit board, and a loudspeaker. Blending aesthetics with technology, it allows the delivery of a private sound message from the artist to the wearer. Designed to be worn rather like the earpiece of presenters and security guards, this work is firmly rooted in the real world and reveals Anderson's longstanding preoccupation with interactions between music and sculpture.”
- Fineartmultiple
"Hearring", 1997 (for Parkett 49)
Earring with playable sound message (approx. 20 sec.),
brass, copper, circuit board, loudspeaker, lithium battery,
Plexiglas, wires, approx.
size: 3 3/8 x 1 3/4 x 1” (10,2, x 4,5 x 2 cm),
jewelry by Josiah Dearborn, engineering design Bob Bielecki
Ed. 150/XXX, inscribed with monogram and edition number.
Audio
Listen to Laurie Anderson’s sound message which can be played using the artists’ “Hearring”, 1997 (for Parkett 49).
Artist Document
Lou Reed wearing Laurie Anderson’s “Hearring”, followed by a letter from the artist with some preliminary thoughts and sketches for her edition.
