John Giorno

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John Giorno (2010)

John Giorno (born December 4, 1936 in New York ; † October 11, 2019 there ) was an American performance artist and poet . He was the founder of the artist network Giorno Poetry Systems , coined the term Dial-A-Poem , an experiment to investigate mass communication , and was one of the key figures on the subcultural New York beatnik scene. Giorno became known through Andy Warhol's experimental film Sleep (1963/64) .

life and work

Giorno graduated from Columbia University in 1958 . In 1962 he first worked as a stockbroker in New York, where he met Andy Warhol. Giorno and Warhol were in close contact with one another until the mid-1960s: Warhol exerted an important influence on Giorno's artistic development and finally encouraged him to experiment with poetry , performance and tape recorders . In 1965 Giorno founded his record company Giorno Poetry Systems , which experimented with the documentation, developments and use of modern communication technology - in the narrower sense video , film , music and conversation recordings. Giorno preferred to work in the spoken word genre . In the course of time, a network was created with contributions from numerous, mostly New York artists who were active in the field of visual and / or performing arts , such as William S. Burroughs , John Ashbery , Ted Berrigan , Patti Smith , Laurie Anderson , Philip Glass , Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Mapplethorpe ; the resulting DIAL-A-POEM campaign , during which daily changing poems could be queried on answering machines , was shown in 1970 in the Museum of Modern Art . Over 40 LP , CD and video publications have been published by Giorno Poetry Systems . With the performance Everyone gets Lighter (2004) John Giorno made a personal reference to his relationships with Warhol, Burroughs and Keith Haring . John Giorno's artistic approach was taken up and further developed by the later industrial culture , among other things .

Exhibitions

Publications

  • Cunt . March, Darmstadt, 1969.
  • Everyone gets easier . Stadtlichter Presse, 2007, ISBN 978-3-936271-38-6 .
  • Subduing Demons in America: Selected Poems 1962-2007 . Soft Skull Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-59376-204-9 . (English)

Discography

  • John Giorno: Rasberry and Pornographic Poem , The Intrevenus Mind Records, New York [LP33], 1967
  • Laurie Anderson , William Burroughs , John Giorno: You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With , East Side Digital, audio CD, 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Randy Kennedy: John Giorno, Who Moved Poetry Beyond the Printed Page, Dies at 82. In: The New York Times . October 13, 2019, accessed October 14, 2019 .
  2. ^ John Giorno: Everyone Gets Lighter. Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, accessed on January 7, 2008 .
  3. ^ The Dial-A-Poem Poets (Giorno Poetry Systems). (No longer available online.) Hamburger Kunsthalle , archived from the original on October 18, 2007 ; Retrieved January 7, 2008 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de
  4. ↑ Call! Him! On! in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on October 25, 2015, page 52
personal data
SURNAME Giorno, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American performance artist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 2019
Place of death New York City