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Brion Gysin

Dear Keith: Works from the Personal Collection of Keith Haring

ABOUT BRION GYSIN

Cutting up
culture

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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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.

Brion Gysin film Hotel Bardo: Watch clips

Hotel Bardo is a film by Stanley Schtinter - a parapsychological summoning of the artist Brion Gysin. Watch clips here.

Photographer Harold Chapman is “fed up” of the Beat Hotel

Harold Chapman lived at the Beat Hotel in Paris, in the 1950s and 60s. While there, he photographed Brion Gysin and other guests.

“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

Brion Gysin

Cutting up culture

Solo exhibitions

The cut-up method

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News & Stories

Dreamachine 1/0 by Siobhan Coen and Haroon Mirza

Keith Haring: Street Art Boy and cut-ups

Brion Gysin film Hotel Bardo: Watch clips

Photographer Harold Chapman is “fed up” of the Beat Hotel

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