"If a performance artist started going on about England and our culture like that-in fact that's happened to Gilbert and George, they are about the only ones I know that have done anything of this sort. It seems to me that both yourself and other artists can talk about flags and America and all this… you can play with these ideas, you may not believe in it, that you can play such a close game with them without anyone being offended."
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Rob La Frenais, in "An Interview with Laurie Anderson," in The Art of Performance A Critical Anthology. Gregory Battcock and Robert Nickas. (eds.), 1984. p. 136
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