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Laurie Anderson: Ark: United States V review – portrait of America is a multimedia mess
A mix of beat poetry, opera, communal screaming, TikTok and tai chi, Anderson’s state-of-the-nation work is occasionally poignant but mostly baffling
Ai Weiwei is God, Elon Musk is the devil, the Doomsday Clock is ticking, atomic bombs are exploding and the audience are screaming their lungs out. Then the Velvet Underground song Ocean is spun into a bit on rising sea levels, though it fails to harness the crashing, cascading power of the original. Twenty-plus members of the Sacred Harp group coming out to sing makes for a stirring finale, but there is another sharp turn before the end, when Anderson asks the audience to stand up and join her in doing tai chi.
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