With the engineer ian sommerville he invented the dreamachine, a flicker device designed as an art object to be viewed with the eyes. Nov 27, 20 build a dream machine, brion gysin and william burroughs device for sober hallucinations, for about fifty dollars. Dec 18, 2020 brion gysin s dream machine, the only work of art you look at with your eyes closed. Brion gysin 19 january 1916 july 1986 was a painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist born in taplow, buckinghamshire quotes. Throughout the 1960s burroughs and gysin collaborated on cutup. Minutes to go 1959 is a brilliant cutup manifesto and features a number of early, diminutive cutup poems by sinclair beiles, william burroughs, gregory corso, and brion gysin.
Brion gysin how to the best guides selected addhowto. The book minutes to go resulted from these initial works. William burroughs, brion gysin, and geometry as a method for. In november of 1979 i wrote a letter to brion gysin at his home in paris, asking if my wife and i might call on him during our coming visit to that city. Aug 18, 2008 author of the exterminator, the process, brion gysin, to master a long goodnight, here to go, the lastmuseum, stories, ultraculture journal. Brion gysin let the mice in brion gysin s let the mice in was first published by dick higginss something else press in 1973. Brion gysin was a painter, writer, sound poet, performance artist and inventor of experimental devices born in taplow, buckinghamshire. In reply, i received from him a color postcard of the georges pompidou center on which gysin had drawn with a marker. Brion gysins dream machine, the only work of art you look at. In the summer of 1959 brion gysin painter and writer cut newspaper articles into sec tions and rearranged the sections at random. Location on map in the 10th september 1992 issue of irelands hot press magazine a tribesperson said ireland is the most important mission on the spiral tribe agenda at the moment.
Interzone report of octobernovember 2012 aubertisa. He was a pioneer of the cutup method, a technique that in many ways anticipated the internets impact on the way that we break down information and ascribe meaning to symbols and words. Humanities free fulltext the glorious plagiarism, trash. His life, work and philosophy by terry wilson preface by william s.
Nov 19, 2012 portrait of brion gysin by jean marc vincent. Here, william burroughsadding machine fortune heir, junkie, killer of his wife, most challenging and complex of the beat writersdescribes a technique itself based on earlier experiments of the surrealists, which in turn had their origins centuries. Brion gysin dream machine institut dart contemporain. Brion gysin january 19, 1916 july, 1986 was a painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist born in taplow, buckinghamshire. This is a twentypage brochure for an art museum exhibition about brion gysin s works of art on paper. The renowned beat generation writer william burroughs once said that brion. It was gysin who invented cutups, in his sound and film experiments with mathematician ian sommerville, using techniques burroughs would later take up in his own occult experiments. Artist, painting, typography, collage, literature, spirituality, article. Gysin was a dilettante defined less by technique than by attitude and a bold inventiveness, who anticipated the rise of the artist who writes, paints, acts, sings, films, blogs, and tweets all at the same time. First cutups, minutes to go, and cut me up brion gysin 19591960 were among gysin s first experiments with the cutup technique of writing. Planet r101 is brion s signature work of writing, discussing a range of topics influencing generations of artists in all disciplines.
Burroughs discovered the cutup in 1959 in paris through his friend brion gysin, a painter. When gysin began experimenting with cutups in his own work, burroughs immediately saw the similarity to the juxtaposition technique he had used in naked lunch and began extensive experiments with text, often with the collaboration of other writers. In the summer of 1959 brion gysin painter and writer cut newspaper articles into sections and rearranged the sections at random. The cutup method of brion gysin there is nothing new under the sun. Talking with the man who let the mice in rain taxi. The glorious plagiarism, trash aesthetics, and ecological.
Burroughs beatnik artist writer unusualbooks 5 out of 5 stars 697. As an artist, author, filmmaker, and the longterm collaborator of william s. With the engineer ian sommerville he also invented the dreamachine, a flicker device designed as an art object to be viewed with the eyes closed. In dublin, at the here to go show, 1992, there was a public session called remembering brion where some of the usual suspects were assembled to drag out the usual stuff brion, who invented the dreamachine, brion, who turned to me in the bus after the light flickering between the. In his editors note to that edition jan herman wrote that the book brings together texts written in the early 1960s and photographs to document part of literary history, notably the use of cutups as a. For an egoless project, there sure is a lot of investment in me here, leading ron silliman to acutely comment, kenny goldsmiths actual art project is the projection of. What can additional consideration of the cutup manifesto minutes to go tell us about the relationship between.
Burroughs, gysin helped to develop the socalled beat aesthetic from the beginning, influencing one of the most important american art movements of the last century and helping to shape decades of literature and art across the world. Master musicians of joujouka to brian jones, who would later visit an. First published in 1982, this seminal book on the life and work of brion gysin has been published in a number of editions. A celebration of beat generation influencers william burroughs and brion gysin. Brion gysin interview mit john giorno about brion gysin john giorno le voyage labiovelaire le cri henri chopin le voyage labiovelaire le cri henri chopin le voyage labiovelaire le cri henri chopin life is a killer various metabolic city of worms nothing here now but the recordings william s. Gysin brion burroughs william gregory corso sinclair beils. Why should minutes to go, a limited edition pamphlet of sixty pages, a work that had three authors other than burroughs brion gysin, sinclair beilles, gregory corso, and a text apparently so easy to overlook why should it be brought in. Sign up, tune into the things you care about, and get updates as they happen. Burroughs, gysin helped to develop the socalled beat aesthetic from the beginning, influencing one of the most important american art movements of the last century and helping to shape decades of.
A friend, brion gysin, an american poet and painter, who has lived in. Back in the 1980s when i used to go see brion in paris originally i would record him on a walkman, then later on i would hire a portable video camera and would record him on video. My celtic mother was thinking of one of those insufferable phony kings of ireland and spelt it with an a. It was in painting and drawing, however, that gysin devoted his greatest efforts, creating calligraph. In 1960 burroughs published his initial cutup experiments in paris in minutes to go with brion gysin, sinclair beiles, and gregory corso and in san francisco in the exterminator with brion gysin, works that were partially intended to introduce the technique to the public. Many of the exhibited works were loans from the estate of william s. Features one of burroughs last interviews, previously unseen footage of him in his prime, a collaboration of joujouka and avantgarde dublin musicians, and the fabled musicians of joujouka, morocco. It was fifty years ago in paris that brion gysin and william burroughs, along with. Cut up open letter to life magazine, from minutes to go. Grew up in new york city, kansas city, mo, and edmonton, alberta, canada. He is best known for his discovery of the cutup technique, used by his friend, the novelist william s.
Brion gysins dream machine, the only work of art you look. Brion gysin et ramuntcho matta, final academy photo i. Morocco, where he spent almost a decade, painting, writing, running a. Back in the 1980s when i used to go see brion in paris originally i would record him on a walkman, then later on i would hire a.
Brion gysin, sinclair beilles, gregory corso, and a text apparently so easy to. We just want to go over there and hold a big party which everyone is free to come and join. A friend, brion gysin, an american poet and painter, who has lived in europe for thirty years, was, as far as i know, the first to create cutups. While a student at the sorbonne, fell in with the surrealists and in 1935, at the age of 19, had his. If the dada movement and brion gysin are correct, then maybe t here are no real political. The dream machine is a device for altering the brainwave frequency of the user and putting it into an alpha state, at which point it begins generating waking, sober hallucinations and internal movies, on demand. For an egoless project, there sure is a lot of investment in me here, leading ron silliman to acutely comment. Brion gysin is a prime example of the 21 st century magical multimedia artist, psychedelic explorer, and technoshaman, and he belongs to the future. Brion gysin live in london, 1982, released 18 october 2016 1.
He is best known for his use of the cutup technique, alongside his close friend, the novelist william s. How to build a dream machine, your own portal to inner visions. Painter, performer, poet, writer and mystic brion gysin 191686 was an early prophet of our age. Taplow, buckinghamshire, england location of death. Minutes to go resulted from this initial cutup experiment. The indians said, here they come, and the spaniards cut their hands. His cutup poem, minutes to go, was broadcast by the bbc and later published in a pamphlet.
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