As part of a week-long residency, mixed-media artist Laurie Anderson returns to the Berkshires to discuss her creative process with Mass MoCA director Joe Thompson and experiment with a new body of work.
In her newest piece, Delusion, Anderson performs a series of short mystery plays that feature electronic puppetry, violin music and unique visuals. In a mythic world filled with nuns, ghost ships, elves and more, she tells a complex story that revolves around the power of language and the pleasure or terror that words can provide. Still in its developmental stages, the finished product will make its world premier in February at the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad.
Jan. 16, 4 p.m., $10-20, Mass MoCA, 87 Marshall St., North Adams, (413) 662-2111, www.massmoca.org.