Playing the Answering Machine
- How to develop an installation with poems, texts and answering machines John Giorno's DIAL-A-POEM, his work of poetry and answering machines, was shown in the Museum of Modern Art New York in 1970. Today he will talk about this Communication-Art-Piece and create a sound installation, with the help of participants, from previous text recordings. The workshop's variation of DIAL-A-POEM can be heard over the phone from 6.11. to 16.11.2013 under the following three numbers: 0049 - (0)7221 929 25925, 0049 - (0)7221 929 25926 and 0049 - (0)7221 929 25927.
John Giorno, performance artist and poet. One of the founders of "Performance Poetry" and the genre of "Spoken Word". Established the record label "Giorno Poetry Systems" (1965). Giorno was the initiator of the first telephone art project DIAL-A-POEM (1968, displayed at MoMA). Lives and works in New York.