Credits | Laurie Anderson United States V: ARK

ARK: UNITED STATES PART V CREDITS

Created and Directed by Laurie Anderson

Performed by
Laurie Anderson Violin, Vocals, Electronics, Keyboards
Doug Wieselman Guitars, Saxophones, Winds
Kenny Wollesen Percussion

with Members of Sacred Harp UK
Aer Nicholson Clasby, Amanda Parkes, Anna Korbel, Anne Foulkes, Anya-Grace Abram, Arthur Swindells, Autumn Speight, Ben Kulvichit, Calum Parker, Challoner Zon, Chris Adam, Christopher Tedd, Claire Welford, Clara Potter-Sweet, Constance Des Marais, David Cox, David Garman, Derek Buckland, Elinor Kirchwey, Ellen Southern, Greg Carson, Hannah Land, Harriet Monkhouse, Helen Barber, Holly Coupland, Inga Buckland, Jacoba Bruneel, Jan Geerts, Jessica Beer, Jo Kay, Jo-anne Carlyle, John Sprackland, Joshua Lant, Joyce Smith, Karen Turner, Kerry Cullinan, Lawrence Dinh, Leilai Immel-Parkinson, Lilith Wozniak, Lucy Atkinson, Mandy Rose, Margaret Bradshaw, Mark Wardlaw, Martel Reynolds, Matthew Parkinson, Mika Upton, Mikey Cottom, Molly-Claire Gillett, Nadia Abdelaziz, Natalie Edelman, Paul Zaba, Rachel Cawley, Richard Mayers, Richard Ogden, Richard Percival, Rowan Tinker, Sam Carter, Scarlett Lassoff, Sophie Lockhart, Sophie Phipson, Steve Brett, Sunny Doyle, Susanna Cox, Teresa Maguire, Theresa Hughes, Thom Andrewes, Thomas Sprackland, Tim Pinder, Tom Sparks, Vicky Tremain, Werner Ullah, William Spendlove

Additional soundtrack by Sexmob
Steven Bernstein Musical Director, Trumpet
Tony Scherr Bass, Guitar
Briggan Krauss Saxophone
Kenny Wollesen Percussion

with Members of Sacred Harp US
Ali Dineen, Anna Roberts-Gevalt, Gideon Crevoshay, Jean Rohe, Liam Robinson, Moira Smiley, Paul An, Theo Bleckmann

Guest appearances
Lou Reed
Anohni
Ai Weiwei

Bob Currie Dramaturg
Michael Morris Artistic Advisor

Story Team
Bob Currie
Michael Morris
Jason Silverman
Jonathan Meiburg

Visual Team
Amy Rose Khoshbin Visual Designer
Jason Stern Video Designer, CG Graphics and Animation, Video Production
Andrew Schneider Lighting Designer

Ryan Kelly Sound Designer, Recording and Mix Engineer

Additional Sexmob Musical Arrangements by
Steven Bernstein, Doug Wieselman

Lou Reed Ocean, Junior Dad

Additional Story Team
Jocelyn Clarke
Daniel Goldberg
Marcello Dantas

Rox Vazquez and Carlos Wyszogrod CG Graphics and Animation

Shaun MacDonald AI Video Generation

Additional video by
Storynest / Hsin-Chien Huang
Suraj Selvabharathi
Daniel Goldberg
Alvis Mosely

Shane Koss Drum Jacket Concept and Electronic Design
Bob Bielecki Drum Jacket Electronic Design
Andrea Lauer Drum Jacket Design and Fabrication
Ned Steinberger Violin Design
Jim Cass Cloud Designer and Scenic Prototyping
Entify Cloud Fabrication

Voice Scroll (2021–present)
Created at the BMO Lab for Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and AI, University of Toronto
David Rokeby Conception
David Rokeby, Awwal Malhi, Kathy Zhuang, Xavier Snelgrove Realisation
Natalie Klym Curation and Coordination of the BMO Lab AI as Foil artist-in-residence program

Landscape FM / Eric Pitra Headlight Glasses Design
Maurizio Montalti, Wim van Egmond Mycological Consultants and Video Generation
Klavs Kehlet Hansen, Pedro Anacleto, Vasco Mendes Portugal Video Team
Treatment Industries Design Modelling

Production team

Chris Clay for Dock Street Events Production Manager
Amy Rose Khoshbin US Line Producer and Production Manager
John Sprackland Sacred Harp Coordinator
Janine Bardsley Company Stage Manager
Emilia Stoddart Deputy Stage Manager
Jojo Leacock Artist Liaison Assistant
Lee Evans Front of House Sound Engineer
Bridge Williams Playback and Stage Sound Engineer
Jack Jordan Sound Monitor Engineer
Susan Limbert Wardrobe Manager
Video support by Adlib

CANAL STREET COMMUNICATIONS

Shaun MacDonald Artist Management
Jason Stern Technical Director
Jim Cass Studio Manager
Betty Lees Finance

Factory International

Fiona Pride Executive Producer
Catt Lyons Producer
Rosa Beuzeval Production Administrator

Paul Moore Director of Production and Building Operations
John Gilleese Technical Manager
Alex Adamson Head of Scenic and Gallery Installations
Dean Fenton Deputy Head of Scenic and Gallery Installations
Simon Beech, Bella Casson, Ellis Robison, Mark Ellidge Stage Technicians
Dash Wong Deputy Head of Lighting
Akshay Khubchandani Lighting Programmer
Shkiesha Pryce, James Greenwood Lighting Operators
Jay Smith Deputy Head of Sound
Callum Stelfox Duty Sound Technician
James Kenyon Sound Technician
Ewan Findley Deputy Head of Video
Andrew Featherstone Video Operator
Tristian Willis, Keaton Leach Video Technicians
Tom French Head of Rigging & Automation
Matt Williams, Joel Pendleton Automation Operators
Sam Goodwin, Phil Thackray Rigging Technicians
Fraser Millward Production Coordinator
Tristian Willis Technical Assistant Stage Manager
Grace Killeen Rehearsal Assistant
Iqra Saied Rehearsal Assistant
Buseko Mulenga Rehearsal Assistant

Programme edited by Polly Checkland Harding and Bethany Garrett.

Suppliers

Splinter Scenic Construction
J&C Joel Cloths and fabrics
Kaleida Holonet
Scan Custom Computer Hardware

Special Thanks

Steve Reich for his recording of Brother Walter from his work It’s Gonna Rain
Georg Rasmussen from Click Festival Denmark
Kimberly Sung from Ai Weiwei Studio
Johannes Goebel Former Director, Ashley Ferro-Murray Former Curator at EMPAC
Additional production support and residency provided by EMPAC / Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Amadeus Julian Regucera, Catherine Abbott, Eric Brucker, Michael Hanrahan, Michael A. Lake, Stephanie Kaye Van Sandt, Todd Vos, Dave Bebb
Kristy Edmunds Director, Sue Killam Director of Performing Arts & Film at Mass MoCA
Tom Hajdu, Anton van den Hengel Australian Institute for Machine Learning and the Sia Furler Institute at the University of Adelaide
Lena Essling Curator at Moderna Museet

Allen Anderson, Axel Ephraim Anderson, Ray Bradbury, John Cage, Marcello Dantas, Sam Dryden, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Gavin Friday, Nikolai Fyodorov, William Gibson, Václav Havel, NASA, David Neuman, Ken Nordine, Yoko Ono, Robert Palmer author of Deep Blues, Louise Edith Orban Phillips Rowland, Gary Shteyngart, Gertrude Stein, George W. S. Trow, Akincano Weber, Willie Williams, Hal Willner, Hunter Zimny, John Zorn