Unbidden Tongues #6: Cutting Out Reading the New York Times
Saturday, April 9, 2022
4–6pm
As part of the yearly program of presentations and events dedicated to various form(at)s of publishing, On and Off the Grid, the event Unbidden Tongues #6: Cutting Out Reading the New York Times will take place on Saturday, April 9 from 4-6pm. The event unfolds over a newly conceived spoken-word version of Lorraine O’Grady’s collage series Cutting Out the New York Times. The initial work consists of 26 “cut-out” or “found” newspaper poems that O’Grady made on consecutive Sundays from June to November in 1977. The new audio piece—in which the poems will be recited for the first time—will feature as a public announcement during the event at the Kunstverein, drawing on the original context of the newspaper as a site of public record to translate the written word into its oral counterpart: a broadcast of sorts.
Unbidden Tongues is edited by Isabelle Sully and, from this title onwards, will be published by Kunstverein München. To mark this collaboration, a special re-edition of the poster accompanying the 1992 exhibition by Adrian Piper at the Kunstverein will also be made available.