Untitled (John Giorno reads) , 2008 Black-and-white 16mm film with sound, 17 reels, transferred to video
10 hours, 6 minutes Edition of 3 + 2 APs
During the summer of 2008, Rirkrit Tiravanija, along with a small film crew, arrived at Giorno Poetry Systems, an artist collective, record label, and non-profit organization founded by poet and performance artist John Giorno. Giorno Poetry Systems has the direct aim of connecting poetry and related art forms to a larger audience using innovative ideas, such as communication technology, audio-visual materials, and other techniques. What transpired for Rirkrit Tiravanija was a film document of John Giorno’s poems, memoirs, and music works performed by Giorno himself for the camera. With a duration of roughly 10 hours, Untitled (John Giorno reads) spans five decades of work, creating a portrait of one of New York’s seminal bohemian figures and, by extension, a record of a New York that now exists only
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