Performance art can be understood as a critique of the radically different representations of what culture considers "real". Out of combinations of narrative, movement, and sound, "real" experiences borrowed from mass media culture are re-constructed commentaries on signification, gender, and communications technology. In performance, every action is part of an overall investigation of music and art. Laurie Anderson creates her unique composition with visual stylishness in her multi-media theatrical event called "Home of the Brave". …showed first 75 words of 359 total…

…showed last 75 words of 359 total…as Laurie Anderson, to further use these creative means as though they were tools in order to present ideas in an intriguing alternative way to viewers. Such creations as the MIDI violin played by Steina are also used in Laurie's piece "Home of the Brave" and create a sort of unison between music and technology. The Vasulka's have inspired Laurie Anderson, just as she has inspired other artists experimenting in the world of avant-garde art.