Nora Turato: pool 4

‘pool 4’ is the title both of a performance and a book produced for MoMA, in which the artist Nora Turato collects language from a range of sources. These “pools” of texts, pulled from the Internet, media headlines, advertisements, conversations, books, commercial products, and her own thoughts, are assembled and arranged, with no logic or narrative structure, into a growing script that Turato memorizes and performs. ‘pool 1’ (2017), ‘pool 2’ (2018), and ‘pool 3’ (2019), all designed with the graphic designer Sabo Day, precede ‘pool 4’, produced exclusively for MoMA.