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!!1977 — Talking Pillow ---- \|t [../files/articles/anderson/1977_talkingpillows.jpg]\|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t ''The piece featured pillows with speakers inside. The piece invites the viewer to place their head on a pillow on a pedestal. A recording starts and it is Anderson herself, recounting dreams she had. The idea for the ''Talking Pillow'' came from a commercially available language-learning system that promised to « teach German as you sleep ». Laurie Anderson used the device to record stories about insomnia.''{br}{br}— — ''“In this dream I’m on a tightrope tipping back and forth and trying to keep my balance. And below me are all my relatives and if I fall I’ll crush them,” she intones. "This long thin line, the song line, the shout, this tightrope made of sound – the only thing that binds me to this turning world, made of my own blood... Remember me is all I ask and if remembrance be a task, Forget me..."''\| \|t [../files/articles/anderson/1977_talkingpillows2.jpg]\|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t {small}''Talking Pillows'' at the Barbican, London for the collective exhibition "Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark – Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s", 3 March – 22 May 2011, Barbican Art Gallery{/small}\| {br}{br} {br}{br}
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