John Giorno, born in 1936 in New York, performed live at the finnissage of the exhibition "Sounds. Radio - Art - New Music" in a setting by the artist Ugo Rondinone. Before a photographic work by Rondinone, Giorno read eight poems which originated during his dazzling career. Already in the 1950s, he became friends with artists such as Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Robert Rauschenberg or Jasper Johns.