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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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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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Cut ups

The cut-up method is best-known as a literary technique in which a written text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. Find out more and see examples.

Review: Dreamachine immersive experience, Woolwich, London

Gysin's Dreamachine gets a science makeover and travels from the counterculture into UK mainstream respectability, at least for a while.

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.

“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