Brion Gysin: Official Site
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  • About Brion Gysin
  • Shows
    • ‘Alarme’ at the Galerie de France, Paris 2011
    • L’Institut d’Art Contemporain, Lyon 2010
    • New Museum, New York 2010
    • October Gallery, London 2009
    • Le Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2007-8
    • I am that I am, Edmonton 1998
    • Here to Go, Dublin 1992
  • Essays & Stories
  • Interviews & Excerpts
  • Images
  • Cut-Up
  • Dreamachine
  • Calligraffiti of Fire
  • Joujouka
  • Publications
  • Related

About Brion Gysin

  • Major article on Brion Gysin by Ian MacFadyen on Realitystudio.org
  • Brion Gysin: Bigger Than Life (ArtsJournal, NPR)
  • What Does Brion Gysin’s Art Mean?
  • Composer Richard Horowitz (Score for ‘Sheltering Sky’, ‘Any Given Sunday’), on Brion Gysin, 2008.
  • Machine Tool (artnet)
  • The Unkown Loved by the Known (New York Times)
  • “With Failure as an Ingredient, He Made His Own Magic” (New York Times)

Cut-Up

  • The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin, by William S. Burroughs
  • An Appraisal of the Films of William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Anthony Balch in terms of Recent Avant Garde Theory

Dreamachine

  • Totally Dreamy Preparing for New York’s trip with Brion Gysin’s Dreamachine
  • Dreamachines, Hallucinations, Charles Bonnet Syndrome & The 50 Year Old Question Hodological Science Answered
  • Getting High at The New Museum: Brion Gysin’s Dream Machine (WNYC)
  • Brion Gysin’s Flickering Light at the New Museum Dream Machine (Huffington Post)

Calligraffiti of Fire

  • Opening Talk for ‘Brion Gysin, Calligraffiti of Fire’ Exhibtion, October Gallery, London, 10th December 2008, by Guy Brett
  • Brion Gysin: Calligraffiti of Fire, by Ian MacFadyen
  • October Gallery, February 2009 (Art Monthly)

Joujouka

  • One Night @ the 1001
  • Rosemary Woodruff Leary on Visiting Jojouka with her Husband Timothy, September 1969
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