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!!1978 — Songs for the Night Driver ---- — — ''an installation of slides and audio at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Dec. 1978 - Jan. 1979.'' {br}{br} \|t [../files/articles/anderson/1978_songsnightdriver.jpg]\|t \|t \|t \|t \|t '' ''Song for the Night Driver #3'' contains the often cited passage, "I am in my body the way most people drive their cars."{br}{br}Laurie Anderson plugs her body into technology to produce a cyborg-like character. Here sexuality is blurred in an androgynous figure, however, this is not the bachelor machine body of an earlier modernist practice. Although Anderson announces that her body is a machine: "I am in my body the way most people drive their cars", her autobiographical scripts are allegories. The car becomes the metaphor for the unconscious. The female body-machine is commodified in a familiar way, alienated from its own subjectivity. The car as feminine subject and extended (phallic) ego is analogous with the body as vehicle.'' — {small}(Ann March, In Bad futures: performing the obsolete body, ^[[Source\|https://www.academia.edu/2937129/Bad_futures_Performing_the_obsolete_body]^]){/small}{br}{br}— — '' ''[United States\|AUDIAanderson5]'' (1983) is framed, for instance, by the image of a Night Driver, windshield wipers monotonously moving back and forth before her, lost on the way home from work. Wearing goggles that light up like headlights, Anderson says "I am in my body the way most people drive their cars." The body, that is, is a more or less mechanical conveyance for the mind that it hauls around - and yet most people drive in their cars mindlessly, or a least carelessly. At the outset we are introduced to this Night Driver in a piece called ''[Say Hello\|AUDIAanderson5]''. ''\| {br}{br} [../files/articles/anderson/1978_songsnightdriver1_400.jpg\|../files/articles/anderson/1978_songsnightdriver1.jpg][../files/articles/anderson/1978_songsnightdriver2_400.jpg\|../files/articles/anderson/1978_songsnightdriver2.jpg]{br}{br} [../files/articles/anderson/1978_songsnightdriver3_400.jpg\|../files/articles/anderson/1978_songsnightdriver3.jpg][../files/articles/anderson/1978_songsnightdriver4_400.jpg\|../files/articles/anderson/1978_songsnightdriver4.jpg]{br}{br} [Download Songs for the Night Driver presentation, Wadsworth Atheneum, Dec. 1978 - Jan. 1979 (pdf)\|https://jeromejoy.org/files/articles/anderson/1978_songsnightdriver.pdf] [../files/articles/anderson/1978_songsnightdriver5.jpg] {br}{br} {br}{br}
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