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Through her work as a pioneering electronic composer, experimental performance artist, and inventor Laurie Anderson, has been in the business of telling stories for over four decades. Her art has always had a political tinge and she surprisingly shot to a wider prominence in the early 1980s when her half-sung, half-spoken eight and a half minute song, O Superman almost reached the top of the British singles chart. The song was actually part of a larger work examining issues of technology and communication, the dynamics of family relations and American foreign policy. Laurie Anderson's latest art installation is a scathing attack on the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay by telling the story of Mohammed el Gharani, who was imprisoned there for nearly eight years, beginning when he was only fourteen years of age.