Laurie Anderson

The art scene of the early 1970s fostered an experimental attitude among many young artists in downtown New York that attracted Anderson, and some of her earliest performances as a young artist took place on the street or in informal art spaces. Anderson has gone on to create large-scale theatrical works which combine a variety of media—music, video, storytelling, projected imagery, sculpture—in which she is an electrifying performer.

http://www.art21.org/files/images/anderson-perf-002.2011.jpg Performance of "United States Part II," 1980 The Orpheum, New York