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Poet and performance artist.  Notable for creating text-based poetry and recorded poetry distorted by synthesizers, and other forms of performance poetry, much of which reflects queer sexuality.  Founded the not-for-profit production company Giorno Poetry Systems, and the AIDS charity, the AIDS Treatment Project (1984).  Subject of [[Andy Warhol]]'s film 'Sleep' (1963).
 
Poet and performance artist.  Notable for creating text-based poetry and recorded poetry distorted by synthesizers, and other forms of performance poetry, much of which reflects queer sexuality.  Founded the not-for-profit production company Giorno Poetry Systems, and the AIDS charity, the AIDS Treatment Project (1984).  Subject of [[Andy Warhol]]'s film 'Sleep' (1963).
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* [[Global LGBTQ HIV/AIDS Activists]]
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* [[Prominent LGBTQ Deaths in 2019]]
  
 
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* http://www.artnews.com/2017/05/05/in-honor-of-his-80th-birthday-john-giorno-will-be-the-subject-of-a-new-york-city-wide-survey-in-june/
 
* http://www.artnews.com/2017/05/05/in-honor-of-his-80th-birthday-john-giorno-will-be-the-subject-of-a-new-york-city-wide-survey-in-june/
 
* https://www.out.com/out-exclusives/2017/7/19/prolific-gay-artist-john-giorno-reflects-his-new-retrospective-andy-warhol-aids
 
* https://www.out.com/out-exclusives/2017/7/19/prolific-gay-artist-john-giorno-reflects-his-new-retrospective-andy-warhol-aids
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* https://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/news/10/13/john-giorno/
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Latest revision as of 14:13, 31 December 2019

John Giorno

Country

United States

Birth - Death

1936 - 2019

Occupation

Artist, Poet, Activist

Description

Poet and performance artist. Notable for creating text-based poetry and recorded poetry distorted by synthesizers, and other forms of performance poetry, much of which reflects queer sexuality. Founded the not-for-profit production company Giorno Poetry Systems, and the AIDS charity, the AIDS Treatment Project (1984). Subject of Andy Warhol's film 'Sleep' (1963).

See Also

Further Reading/Research


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