as an idea or, for some, as a memory. Using 17 reels of 16mm, black-and-white film with sound, the artist has captured a living monument, not only contingent on time or place, but on intimacy and feeling—a recapture of the political charge of John Giorno’s work, life, and commitment to his communities. In this film (transferred to video), Giorno’s works—so inscribed into the histories of their own time and the context of their immediate environment—not only live on as
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