Join us for an exclusive Frieze 91 private tour of the John Giorno Foundation, led by Jenny Schlenzka, Executive Artistic Director, Performance Space & Pati Hertling, Deputy Director, Performance Space
Followed by drinks and canapés.
Thursday February 24 2022, 7pm
John Giorno Foundation, 222 Bowery, New York, 10012
The John Giorno Foundation has been established in honor of the life and work of the artist John Giorno (1936-2019), as a posthumous transformation of Giorno Poetry Systems, Inc. founded and incorporated by Giorno in 1974 as a 501 (3) (c) non-profit organization. Sharing the mission of its earlier incarnation, The Foundation exists to help poets, artists, musicians and the Nyingmapa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism for the benefit, in Giorno’s words, “of all sentient beings”. The Foundation will also preserve and promote the work of John Giorno, including his literature, visual and recording arts, as well as the artist’s archives.
Jenny Schlenzka is the Executive Artistic Director of Performance Space New York. Prior Schlenzka was the Associate Curator at MoMA PS1 in New York, where she established Sunday Sessions, an interdisciplinary, weekly live program from 2012-2017. In 2008 she was appointed the first Curator dedicated to Performance in the Department of Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2012, she received the Yoko Ono Courage Award. She holds an MA in Cultural Studies from Humboldt University, Berlin.
Pati Hertling is Performance Space New York's Deputy Director. She serves as the primary mover with regard to major gifts, marketing, and finance. She is a curator and art lawyer who has organized various independent curatorial projects, including a Evas Arche und der Feminist, a salon series in Berlin and New York from 2005 until 2010 which combined visual artists with performance artists, three group exhibitions in New York, at the Chelsea Art Museum, White Columns, and the Swiss Institute, various other curated evenings combining food, performance and readings, she also is the editor, together with Negar Azimi, of an online epistolary archive called Deadlines and Divine Distractions and she is also the co-founder of Material Vodka, a vodka company with the mission to establish alternative funding mechanisms for art.
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