Screening | Rirkrit Tiravanija: DAS GLÜCK IST NICHT IMMER LUSTIG
untitled 2008 (john giorno reads)
By Rirkrit Tiravanija
Rirkrit Tiravanija, untitled 2008 (John Giorno reads), film still © Rirkrit Tiravanija, courtesy: the artist and Gladstone Gallery
In Tiravanija’s 10-hour black and white film, poet and performance artist John Giorno reads poems and excerpts from his memoirs in his New York loft. Giorno’s texts and his performative use of language deal with themes such as friendship, gay desire, mortality and sex.
In his filmmaking practice, Tiravanija repeatedly turns the lens on actors, colleagues and companions from the art world. untitled 2008 (john giorno reads) was created when Tiravanija and a film team recorded the poet and performance artist John Giorno for several hours in his loft at the Giorno Poetry Systems art center. He recites poetry, reads passages from his memoirs or plays music by his band. Tiravanija not only portrays John Giorno, who has lived and worked in New York since the mid-1960s, but also an entire generation of artists. We are showing the film in its day-spanning version until the exhibition hall closes.
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