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John Giorno (born
1936) is an
North American poet and performance artist. He founded the artist collective
Giorno Poetry Systems and coined its mass communication experiment
Dial-A-Poem. He became prominent as the subject of
Andy Warhol's film
Sleep. He is also an
AIDS activist and fundraiser.
Career
Giorno was born in
New York. He graduated from
Columbia University in 1958. In 1962, while in his early 20s he 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, who became 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.
In 1968, Giorno founded
Giorno Poetry Systems in order to connect poetry to new audiences, using innovative technology. This intuition turned out to be very influential on later approaches to poetry, like
Spoken Word, Slam readings (
Slam Poetry)and the use of technology as an aid for artistic purposes. Some of the poets and artists who recorded or collaborated with Giorno Poetry Systems were
William Burroughs,
John Ashbery,
Ted Berrigan,
Patti Smith,
Laurie Anderson,
Philip Glass,
Robert Rauschenberg and
Robert Mapplethorpe.
In addition to his collaborations with
William Burroughs, Giorno has produced a number of albums, tapes, videos and books.
In 2007 he plays in
Nine Poems in Basilicata, a cult movie directed by
Antonello Faretta based on his poems and his performances.
His live poetry shows are solo performances and from 2005 he do as well some music-poetry shows together with the avant garde spanish composer and musician
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