John Giorno (born December 4, 1936) is an American poet and performance artist. He founded the not-for-profit production company Giorno Poetry Systems and organized a number of early multimedia poetry experiments and events, including Dial-A-Poem. He became prominent as the subject of Andy Warhol's film Sleep (1963). He is also an AIDS activist and fundraiser, and a long-time practitioner of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
Career
Giorno was born in New York. He graduated from Columbia University in 1958, where he was a "college chum" of physicist Hans Christian von Baeyer. In 1962, while in his early twenties he briefly worked in New York as a stockbroker. In 1962 he met Andy Warhol during Warhol's first New York Pop Art solo exhibit at Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery. They became lovers and Warhol remained an important influence for Giorno's developments on poetry, performance and recordings. Giorno and Warhol are said to have remained very close until 1964, after which time their meetings were rare. Their relationship was revived somewhat in the last year before Warhol's death. Inspired by Warhol, and subsequent relationships with Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, Giorno began applying Pop Art techniques of appropriation of found imagery to his poetry, producing The American Book of the Dead in 1964 (published in part in his first book, Poems, in 1967). Meetings with William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin in 1964 contributed to his interest in applying cut up and montage techniques to found texts, and (via Gysin) his first audio poem pieces, one of which was played at the Paris Museum of Modern Art Biennale in 1965.
“We hung out with some really interesting people,” Dennis remembers—Myles, but also Joan Mitchell, Anne Waldman, and John Giorno. “All of a sudden we were in this milieu,” says Dennis ... The show at the Aldrich is a homecoming of sorts ... .
Among other works, the museum is showing the iconic Sleep with John Giorno, the salacious but mysterious Blow Job and the feature-length, only sometimes pornographic Couch.
This is one that unites iconic artists, including Warhol and John Giorno (we recommend spending an afternoon listening to the late poet’s 1968-launched “Dial-A-Poem”, which features 293 recordings by the likes of Laurie Anderson and William S ... .
The phrase takes inspiration from a 1993 poem, “You Got to Burn to Shine,” by Rondinone’s late partner and American poetJohn Giorno — which itself originates from a Buddhist mantra acknowledging the inevitable coexistence of life and death ... .
“Keith was heroic in having gay content in his work,” poet John Giorno said, at a time “when we all know that being a gay artist is the kiss of death.” Haring memorably advocated safe sex during the ...
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As part of a continuous program of pocket exhibitions focused on its collection, the Museum of Modern Art will open a gallery devoted to John Giorno's Dial-A-Poem project on Friday, April 7. .
He stands with John Giorno. And here’s Giorno again on another cover, this time with Glenn Branca, glaring out at us on a disc entitled Who Are You Staring At?.
John Giorno, a poet, performer, and visual artist who was an influential figure in the New York art scene for more than 50 years, lived in a house on the North Fork with his husband, the artist Ugo ...
“Yes, I’m really sleeping,” one notice says ... As an art form, it was anticipated by Andy Warhol, who made a film of his lover John Giorno sleeping called Sleep ... .
... artist Ugo Rondinone and the late American poet and performance artist John Giorno—should have caught the attention of art-biased netizens, thanks to that in-your-face social media buzz around it.
Longview News-Journal
31 May 2023
Longview News-Journal
31 May 2023