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. Scrapbook by william burroughs and brion gysin, from paperwork. The multimedia artist brion gysin produced pioneering paintings, drawings, collage, sound, literature, music, performance and kinetic art. Interview with richard aaron of am here books realitystudio. 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. Burroughs systems adviser ian sommerville created the dreamachine after reading william grey walters book, the living brain. In the summer of 1959 brion gysin painter and writer cut newspaper articles into sections and rearranged the sections at random. The indians said, here they come, and the spaniards cut their hands. Morocco, where he spent almost a decade, painting, writing, running a. Brion gysin was originally john clifford brian gysin, born 19 th january, 1916 in taplow, buckinghamshire. Jacket2 publisher al filreiss feature on poetry in 1960 grew out of a kelly writers house symposium devoted to the fiftieth anniversary of a number of different texts published in 1960. Burroughs ted morgan nothing is true, everything is permitted. Vale research on brion gysin, william burroughs, derek.
Best known for his discovery of the cutup technique and the invention of the dreamachine, gysin devoted his greatest efforts to painting and drawing. Very light rubbing to the edges of the dust jacket. A selection of books and works on paper is organized by stephen h. 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. Go, was broadcast by the bbc and later published in a pam phlet. Ernesto chahoud presents taitu soulfuelled stompers from 1960s1970s ethiopia 2018 ethiopia. Brion gysin 19 january 1916 july 1986 was a painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist born in taplow, buckinghamshire. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Brion gysin was also a painter, an inventor of the dream. As an artist, author, filmmaker, and the longterm collaborator of william s. A friend, brion gysin, an american poet and painter, who has lived in. Burroughs cutup technique burroughs discovered the cutup in 1959 in paris through his friend brion gysin, a painter. Brion gysin found the explanation for this unusual experience a few years later when william s.
Planet r101 brion gysin interviewed by terry wilson the job. Numerous photographs of gysin included throughout the book. While this did not bear the am here imprint, it was done at my urging and i received several copies in exchange for my assistance. The cutup method of brion gysin there is nothing new under the sun.
View in gallery figure 4 modern representation of the lo shu square as. You can download a pdf of the original brian jones sleeve and booklet from. The glorious plagiarism, trash aesthetics, and ecological. The dreamachine a portmanteau of dream machine is a stroboscopic flicker device that produces visual stimuli. Brion gysin is the only man i have ever respected, the only person of either sex. Otherwise a very clean and tight copy of this scarce title. Brion gysin and dreamachine the multimedia artist brion gysin produced pioneering paintings, drawings, collage, sound, literature, music, performance and kinetic art. Sly, charming, humorous, arch, dangerous, gysin is almost a modernday rimbaud, alive for the adventure of it all here to go being the meaning of it all. Brion gysin january 19, 1916 july, 1986 was a painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist born in taplow, buckinghamshire. Hanson, an africanamerican professor of the history of slavery, who is in north africa on a mysterious foundation grant, sets off across the sahara on a series of wild adventures. 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. Sinclair beiles, william burroughs, gregory corso, brion gysin, minutes to go 19601968 file history click on a datetime to view the file as it appeared at that time. His cutup poem, minutes to go, was broadcast by the bbc and later published in a pamphlet.
Of course the sands of present time are running out from under our feet. He mixed, combined and permutated his work, by hand, and by computer, 40 years before the. After his death, in a video tribute recorded for the dublin here to go show in 1992, burroughs stated unequivocally. He mixed, combined and permutated his work, by hand, and by computer, 40 years before the internet sliced through our attention spans. The work is a light device that uses the stroboscopic effect to stimulate the optic nerve and thus the brain. Here to go, terry wilson introduces us to this singular talent through gysin s own words. 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. Inspired by the light effects he had experienced in france, brion gysin developed the. Goddard, curator of prints and drawings, with assistance from prints and drawings intern joanna sternberg. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. He first meets hamid, a mad moroccan who turns him on, takes him over and teaches him to pass as a moor. Click here to visit our frequently asked questions about html5 video. Walter was a neurophysiologist and an early researcher into the nature of brain waves and corresponding brain function.
With the engineer ian sommerville he also invented the dreamachine, a flicker device designed as an art. Cutup, minutes to go, texts by burroughs, william burroughs. First cutups, minutes to go, and cut me up brion gysin 19591960 were among gysin s first experiments with the cutup technique of writing. While this did not bear the am here imprint, it was done at my urging and i. Brion gysin 19 january 1916 july 1986 was a painter, writer, sound poet, performance artist and inventor of experimental devices born in taplow. 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. Brion gysin, and gregory corso, minutes to go, two cities editions, 1960. Gysin, while treating hensonin an entirely sympatheticmanner, has,in largepart, corroborated the opinionexpressed above,and he has gonefurther in advancingthe thesisthat hensonwasthe prototypeof all that is meant today by the phrasea goodnigger, the yes, massatype, a racial relationshipthat demandsconstantcompromise as the price of. Planet r101 is brion s signature work of writing, discussing a range of topics influencing generations of artists in all disciplines. Burroughs lent him a copy of the living brain by dr. Author of the process, the exterminator, brion gysin, to master a long goodnight, here to go, stories, the lastmuseum, eight feet in the andes brion gysin open library donate. Dreamachine together with mathematician ian sommerville.
The cutup method of brion gysin 2 at a surrealist rally in the 1920s tristan tzara the man from nowhere proposed to create a poem on the spot by pulling words out of a hat. Gysin, brion 1916 gysin, john clifford brian 19161986. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of. Andre breton expelled tristan tzara from the movement and grounded the cutups on the freudian couch. Goodnight eileen from here to go by terry wilson brion gysin 1982 cerith wyn evans 20032003. The short film, the cutups opened in london in 1967. The answer to the riddle of the ages has actually been out in the street since the first step in space. The book minutes to go resulted from these initial works. Brion gysin 19 january 1916 july 1986 was a painter, writer, sound poet, performance artist and inventor of experimental devices born in taplow, buckinghamshire he is best known for his use of the cutup technique, alongside his close friend, the novelist william s.
Brion gysin et ramuntcho matta, final academy photo i. Englishborn painter and writer brion gysin 19161986 is best known as the. Goodnight eileen from here to go by terry wilson brion gysin 1982 date. Minutes to go resulted from this initial cutup experiment. Painter, poet and philosopher brion gysin talks about his years of collaboration with william s. Crayon, gelatinsilver prints, letterpress, offset lithography, and typescript on graph paper, 12 38 x 9 58 in 31. William s burroughs here to go is terry wilsons classic book of interviews with brion gysin, the artist, writer and longterm collaborator of william burroughs.