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Matthew
Higgs, Artforum, Best of 2002, A Special Issue, December 2002,
pp 110-111
"Lowland Lullaby" (Swiss Institute, New York)
Dreamed up by Swiss mavericks Ugo Rondinone and Urs Fischer
and the seminal New York spoken-word poet John Giorno , "Lowland
Lullaby" won my award for surreal collaboration of the
year. From beneath Rondinone's Op art-decorated, stagelike platform
floor emanated a recording of Giorno reading his epic poem "There
Was a Bad Tree", which provided accompaniment for Fischer's
loopy drawings and sculptures. Like the Swiss Institute's inspiringly
strange programming, "Lowland Lullaby" made absolute
sense and no sense at all.
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