LYDIA OU

Taking John Giorno’s Dial-a-Poem (1968) as a starting point, the evening explores different forms of presence and absence. If Giorno’s poetry transmitted via telephone relies on technology to bridge the distance between voices and places, Andy Warhol’s Sleep (1964) shows a different kind of absence, that of sleep itself. In the film, John Giorno, who was Warhol’s lover at the time, is present yet lost in the unconsciousness of slumber.

Bringing the presence/absence dichotomy into the present, there will be a conversation between Lydia Ourahmane, artist who often works with sound, and Francesco Manacorda, director of the Castello di Rivoli , where the artist will exhibit in September.