October 22 NMA birthdays: 1925 - Robert Rauschenberg; 1943 - Ursula Dudziak; 1947 - Neil Rolnick; 1949 - Loren Mazzacane Connors
Robert Rauschenberg, 1925 Port Arthur, Texas
I completed the NMA Washington 1983 festival a few days ago, but today I was reminded that I had no information about the collaboration between Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg which was a performance held after the festival, on November 3 and 4, 1983. So I looked elsewhere, and found:
It turns out that Laurie Anderson had contributed to the Rauchenberg Foundation’s oral history project and she does get around to talking about it, and she did provide a clip of that longer oral history that is provided free to download at https://www.rauschenbergfoundation.org/sites/default/files/ANDERSON_Laurie_FINAL.pdf
Q: So the collaboration for Set and Reset [1983] with Trisha Brown and Rauschenberg was accidental, was part of …