we start with the american artist laurie anderson who has never let herself be confined into any particular genre or box since her formative years in one nine hundred seventy s. new york anderson has been a figurehead of the guard morphing easily from musician to filmmaker to performance artist and even to inventor of electronic instruments gender ambiguity is also a longtime focus of her artistic persona and here. is what happens when you give an artist of her versatility. she's a storyteller a musician and composer and for fifty years laurie anderson.

but we start with the american artist laurie anderson who has never let herself be confined into any particular genre or box since her formative years in one nine hundred seventy s. new york anderson has been a figurehead of the guard morphing easily from musicians have filmmaker to performance artist and even to inventor of electronic cats. she's a storyteller a musician and composer and for fifty years laurie anderson has been an avid garde pioneer somethings of the world just curious. i mean. just. life's work has been the template using sound language and performance in capturing the ephemeral. because it's building a ship in the air you know what it's like and if you disapprove you can move it over there could sink it but you're building it in the present moment. calm borges city of ships has given anderson free reign for the reflektor program at the elbe film only the artist can do what she will anderson is packed one stage with guitars and amps encouraging visitors to create their own music. to basically she's got a key to the fiddle money here you go you can do whatever you w

laurie anderson would much rather just be making art and for four days of the. she can do just that building out of pure improvise ation herships and we're. well on january first germany became the first country in the e.u. to offer a third gender option on birth certificates a move that many hailed as a revolution for anyone who had ten to five side of the conventional male female binary but society as a whole is lagging seriously behind and in terms of things like occupational policy product design or even city planning most things are still geared towards the male as standard for the species. welcome to the world of gender design meaning simply good design for women men and everyone else gender is one of the year's biggest buzzwords there are gender neutral toilets and in this exhibition gender and not my thing gender and design a design academy reveals that when it comes to gender design our society is clearly underdeveloped it starts with children for boys pink for girls and that early gender division extends from toys to tools. design come to design can ce

but we start with the american artist laurie anderson who has never let herself be confined into any particular genre or box since her formative years in one nine hundred seventy s. new york anderson has been a figurehead of the oven guard morphing easily from musician to filmmaker to performance artist and even to inventor of electronic instruments gender ambiguity is also a longtime focus of her artistic persona and here. is what happens when you give an artist of her versatile.

take a look laurie anderson has long been steps ahead of the crowd she's a luminary among of on guard artists and describes yourself as a storyteller by condensing sounds and converting them into tones. for almost fifty years anderson has mixed words and colors into unique art forms. she used to plan and prepare everything nowadays she mostly improvises. building a ship in the air you know it's like and if you move you can. sink it but you're building it in. anderson's project titled reflector is running out hamburg held for money for four days loud guitars have been installed on various stages and in the building's holds. the motto goes the artist is being given a key to the elder money and she can make her project four days long anderson is performing in the main concert hall every evening she tells every day stories through poetry electric violins that she designs are also part of the performance. these guys when they are playing around those. andersen's are it was heavily influenced by new york in the one nine hundred seventy s. andy warhol the velvet underground it was a wildly i

laurie and her "facebook at 15" premieres sunday at 9:00 eastern. thank you for joining us. have a great weekend. just go to cnn go to watch us. andersonion against one of the top three virginia democratic elected officials, all of whom are facing pressure to step down. >>> also major new developments in the strange and sleazy case of alleged blackmail and extortion of jeff bezos, america's wealthiest man, by the publisher of "the national enquirer" a long-time ally of the president. we begin keeping them honest with the democrats first big televised hearing in what's expected to be a parade of them as they look into all corners of the trump presidency. acting attorney general matthew whitaker today going before the house judiciary committee. he confirmed he's been fully briefed on the russia investigation. he denied ever talking to president trump about it or in any way interfering with the probe. that said, no one

laurie and her "facebook at 15" premieres sunday at 9:00 eastern. thank you for joining us. have a great weekend. just go to cnn go to watch us. anderson starts now. >>> good evening. a very busy night including a new and serious allegation against one of the top three virginia democratic elected officials, all of whom are facing pressure to step down. >>> also major new developments in the strange and sleazy case of alleged blackmail and extortion of jeff bezos, america's wealthiest man, by the publisher of "the national enquirer" a long-time ally of the president. we begin keeping them honest with the democrats first big televised hearing in what's expected to be a parade of them as they look into all corners of the trump presidency. acting attorney general matthew whitaker today going before the house judiciary committee. he confirmed he's been fully briefed on the russia investigation. he denied ever talking to president trump about it or in any way interfering with the probe. that said, no one pretends that congressional hearings are remotely about the witness letting it all hang out. they're adversarial encounters and revelations