Pioneering artist Laurie Anderson returns to Brighton Festival with a solo version of The Republic of Love; a project about the relationship between government and love.
Laurie Anderson launched her musical career in 1981 with the release of O Superman, and has since established herself as an innovative and groundbreaking writer, director, composer, visual artist and musician. Her avant-garde take on pop music redefined the genre, transforming complex ideas into immersive experiences using music, technology and performance art. She returns to Brighton for the first time since being Guest Director for Brighton Festival's 50th Edition in 2016.
Born from a two-hour talk about the relationship of Government and love written for a Vienna-based festival themed around the rise of Fascism in Europe, The Republic of Love is a celebration of freedom. Featuring songs from Anderson’s discography, including Big Science and Language Is A Virus, this multi-sensory immersive experience of music, language and visual art takes songs from the past and provides reflections on how they take new meaning in today’s political climate.
The Foyer Bar will be open from 6pm, with live music by The Fabulous Hamiltones, and the visual art exhibition Act 0 presented by the Adelaide Salon will be open (for ticket holders only)
Act 0: Lucy Newman - Performance for Screen
Presented as a looping video work, Newman’s performance unfolds within a constructed domestic interior—where illusion, image and object converge.
Drawing on early film techniques and optical devices, the work disrupts conventional perceptions of space and landscape. Artefacts appear both familiar and estranged, blurring distinctions between representation and reality.
Lucy Newman is an artist whose work explores how landscape, history and the natural world are mediated through images. Influenced by analogue film processes and historical viewing tools such as the Claude glass, her practice combines performance, print and installation. Her works often render objects at true scale, positioning them as carriers of cultural memory and narrative.
Perhaps there is no better teacher for quelling our modern tensions than Laurie Anderson
Spectrum Culture
It is an event at a concert hall like no other that will leave you buoyed and refreshed like a spell of summer rain
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*There is a £3.50 per order charge for all phone and online bookings (not applicable to Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival members)
**Stage timings are subject to change
** Festival Standby's are available I hour before the performance in person to: Concession groups, Under 30s, BDBF Members & Festival Artists
