Laurie Anderson [ tickets ] will give her latest performance-art piece, "Homeland," during an extended US run in concert halls this spring.

The experimental artist and musician performed the work for Australian and European audiences last fall, and previewed an "in-progress" version for select American audiences last year, but the upcoming run, which kicks off March 26 in New York City, will be the first chance for US audiences to get a complete look at Anderson's inwardly looking piece. All dates for the run are included below.

"Homeland," both the performance piece and an album of the same name due in stores later this year, "questions the current fears of Americans, their obsession with security, the increasing loneliness, the power of technology and the gradual loss of freedom," according to Anderson's MySpace page.

The forthcoming "concert-poem," as Anderson terms it, is the performer's first new work since 2001's "Life on a String" LP, which concentrated primarily on the artist's musical (as opposed to spoken-word) compositions, and featured a variety of guest performers, including Lou Reed, Mocean Worker, Mitchell Froom and others.

Anderson, who originally came to fame with her 1981 underground hit "O Superman" and the follow-up album "Big Science," served as NASA's artist-in-residence from 2003 until 2005, when Rep. Chris Chocola (R-Ind) successfully sponsored an amendment in Congress to "prohibit federal funds from being used to employ an 'artist in resident' at NASA," according to the Washington Times. Thus, Andersen became both the first and last in that position at NASA.