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The art scene of the early 1970’s fostered an experimental attitude among many young artists in downtown New York that attracted performance artist Anderson. Trained in violin as a child, and in college as a sculptor, some of her earliest performances as a young artist took place on the street or in informal art spaces. In the most memorable of these, she stood on a block of ice, playing her violin while wearing her ice skates. When the ice melted, the performance ended. Since that time, 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.
Called "“America's multi-mediatrix” by Wired magazine and a “modern renaissance artist and agent provocateur” by Philadelphia Daily News, Laurie Anderson is-in her work as a performance artist as well as musician, poet, writer, and visual artist—one of the most important artists of the later 20th century.