The Performative Word
Language: English
Published by MOUSSE, 2026
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- Title
- The Performative Word
- Author
- Balbi, Lorenzo (Editor)/ Huberman, Anthony (Editor)/ Giorno, John (Artist)/ Whitehouse, Bonnie (Editor)
- Publisher
- MOUSSE
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- Brand New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 8867497308
- ISBN 13
- 9788867497300
- Item weight
- 0.88 kilograms
Unpacking the life and work of a beloved New York artist whose multihyphenate practice and radical linguistic vision influenced a generation of poets, performers and activists
This is the first monograph dedicated to the visionary American artist, poet and activist John Giorno. Emerging from the New York downtown scene of the 1960s, Giorno developed a singular artistic voice at the crossroads of poetry, performance, painting and political activism over the course of more than six decades. By bringing the written word off the page and into performance, technology and visual art, Giorno challenged disciplinary boundaries and advanced a radical vision of language as central to human expression. Though often positioned at the margins of multiple downtown scenes―the Beats, Andy Warhol’s Factory, punk music, queer counterculture, anti-war activism―he was in fact an influential presence within all of them, operating as a conduit between coexisting cultural communities. His collaborators included Robert Rauschenberg, William S. Burroughs, Laurie Anderson, Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg, among many others.
This book traces how Giorno wove poetry into all aspects of daily life―by putting words on the wall, on the performance stage, on LP vinyl records or on the telephone. A wide range of archival documents, images and ephemera form an intimate portrait of Giorno as an activist, performer, Buddhist practitioner, collaborator and friend.
John Giorno (1936–2019) was a New York–born poet, performance artist and activist. After receiving early recognition for his starring role in Andy Warhol’s five-hour film Sleep (1963), Giorno created his iconic Dial-A-Poem at the Architectural League of New York in 1968. His wide-ranging legacy includes his foundation’s support of artists living with AIDS through the AIDS Treatment Project. He lived and worked in New York City with his husband, the Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, until his death in 2019.
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About the Author
Issu de la scène underground new-yorkaise des années 1960, John Giorno (1936-2019) a développé une voix artistique singulière, à la croisée de la poésie, de la performance, de la peinture et de l'activisme politique, pendant plus de six décennies. En faisant sortir la poésie de l'espace de la page imprimée pour l'intégrer à la performance, à la technologie et aux arts visuels, Giorno a constamment remis en question les frontières disciplinaires et promu une vision radicale du langage comme élément central de l'expression humaine. Partie prenante de la Beat Generation, ami et collaborateur de figures telles que Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Laurie Anderson, Anne Waldman, John Ashbery, John Cage, Patti Smith, etc., il a constitué une sorte de trait d'union entre les différentes communautés culturelles et mouvements artistiques coexistant dans le downtown new-yorkais : les Beats, la Factory de Warhol, la scène punk, la contre-culture queer ou l'activisme anti-guerre. Créateur de l'œuvre performance devenue culte Dial-A-Poem, fondateur en 1965 de Giorno Poetry Systems, organisation à but non lucratif qui a révolutionné la diffusion de la poésie en la mêlant à la musique, aux arts visuels, à l'engagement politique et aux pratiques communautaires, John Giorno, qui se maria avec Ugo Rondinone et quitta la scène publique en 2017, consacrant ses dernières années à la méditation et à la poésie, laisse un héritage artistique et militant dont l'influence perdure aujourd'hui.
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