The late-twentieth century experimental artist Brion Gysin was a changeling. Throughout his career, he engaged in a project of blotting out his race, his nationality and — in what many see as his best ...

The New Museum’s “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine” is intended as New York’s reintroduction to this painter, poet, innovator, and total subversive, and that it will be. Gysin was the artist’s artist among ...

Brion Gysin was a British artist born in 1916 in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England. He was known for his work in painting, drawing, sound poetry, and performance art, and was associated with the ...

At the end of 1980, the late Steve Lacy expanded his group to a sextet with the addition of pianist Bobby Few. His first recording with this new configuration was Songs, a 1981 collaboration with poet ...

The pioneering work of avant-garde artist and William Burroughs collaborator Brion Gysin will receive a definitive vinyl edition this spring, as the cult Dreamachine recordings is issued for the first ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The writings of American writer William S. Burroughs and British writer Brion Gysin measure 0.4 linear feet and date from 1963 to 1973, and 1997.

I met William Burroughs in 1971. I got his address through a magazine and went to London to spend time with him. Right away I asked about Brion Gysin. Gysin would always be in the dedications or ...

Brion Gysin let the mice in.--The dream machine: Sommerville, I. Flicker. Gysin, B. Dreamachine.--Further experiments: Burroughs, W. The invisible generation ...

“Brion Gysin was a subversive,” we are told in a wall text just off the elevator at this New Museum retrospective. Gay and itinerant, he had “no family, no clique, no fixed profession and, often, no ...

All roads lead to Italy this season, and not only because the Venice Biennale, the greatest art exhibition of them all, opens there in May. Out with reason and control, in with instincts and impulses.

IN 1962, AT THE GALLERIA Trastevere di Topazia Alitata in Rome, Brion Gysin covered a wall with paintings and filled the space with manipulated, tape-recorded sound poetry. Neither paintings nor ...