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CUTTING UP CULTURE

About Brion Gysin

Multi-media artist Brion Gysin produced pioneering paintings, drawings, collage, sound, literature, music, performance and kinetic art.

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Gysin’s works, listed.

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The cut-up method

Upon cutting through the newspapers, Gysin noticed that the sliced layers offered interesting juxtapositions of text and image.

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The Beatles: Get Back and Brion Gysin

The Beatles: Get Back is surely a good excuse to mention that Paul McCartney was aware of, and influenced by, Brion Gysin's work.

John Hopkins, writer, friend and observer of Brion Gysin, has died

John Hopkins first met Brion Gysin in the Parade Bar, Tangier. Read extracts from Hopkins' diary that mention Brion Gysin.

Dreamachine 1/0 by Siobhan Coen and Haroon Mirza

Dreamachine 1/0 is Siobhan Coen and Haroon Mirza's video installation in response to Brion Gysin's original device.

Keith Haring: Street Art Boy and cut-ups

New documentary Keith Haring: Street Art Boy briefly mentions the influence of cut-ups on Haring's work.

“Take your own words or the words said to be “the very own words” of anyone else living or dead. You’ll soon see that words don’t belong to anyone. Words have a vitality of their own and you or anybody else can make them gush into action.”

Brion Gysin