Laurie Anderson on Her Ambitious Guantanamo Meditation 'Habeas Corpus'

Laurie Anderson, no stranger to storytelling or feats of artsy ambition, is preparing a momentous multimedia work about a subject as pointed and political as they come: the story of a long-suffering detainee from Guantanamo Bay. Under the title Habeas Corpus, the project involves the “telepresence” of an ex-prisoner, Mohammed…