Unbidden Tongues #6: Reading the New York Times

Unbidden Tongues #6: Reading the New York Times took the form of an event, held on Saturday, April 9 from 46pm at Kunstverein Mnchen. The event unfolded over a newly conceived spoken-word version of Lorraine OGradys collage series Cutting Out the New York Times. The initial work consists of twenty-six 'cut-out' or 'found' newspaper poems that OGrady made on consecutive Sundays from June to November in 1977. This bookletwhich contains the poem The Renaissance Man Is Back In Businessacted as a guide for listeners at the event, during which five of the poems from the series were recited and broadcast through a public announcement system installed at Kunstverein Mnchen, reinterpreting the poems through their performance while still maintaining a commitment to the original format from which they sprung: print media and its oral translations in broadcasting. This is the first reprint of the original title, published in September 2024.