BRION GYSIN

My given name is Brion. My Celtic mother was thinking of one of those insufferable phony kings of Ireland and spelt it with an a: Brian. Official documents took care of that and spelt it Brion, like the famous wine of Bordeaux, Haut Brion. I accepted this gladly and dropped all my other given names when I became an American citizen.

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A shadow looms over this collection of vintage sundials.

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Brion Gysin, Stories, Inkblot Publications, Oakland, CA, 1984 [The Bookplate, Boston, MA]

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Brion Gysin 23, I.C.B.M., Caen / Editions Cactus, Herouville Saint Clair, 1993 [BeatBooks, Longborough, Compton, West Sussex]. Cover photograph by Charles Gatewood. Contributors: William Burroughs, Hamri, Lawrence Lacina, Udo Breger, Bernard Heidsieck, Henri Chopin, Ira Cohen, John Giorno, Guy Schraenen, John Geiger, Steve Lacy, and Daevid Allen, among others. Published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Brion Gysin Play Back’, Espace Électra, Paris, January 14 – February 16, 1993

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Brion Gysin, Who Runs May Read, Foreword by Jürgen Ploog, Inkblot Publications, Oakland, CA / Xochi, Brisbane, 2000 [BeatBooks, Longborough, Compton, West Sussex]. Cover Art by Gysin

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Brion Gysin, Untitled, 1962 [Centre Pompidou, Paris. © Galerie de France, Paris. Photo: © André Morin]

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Brion Gysin, Untitled, 1962 [Centre Pompidou, Paris. © Galerie de France, Paris. Photo: © André Morin]

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Brion Gysin, Untitled, 1962 [Centre Pompidou, Paris. © Galerie de France, Paris. Photo: © André Morin]

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Brion Gysin, Untitled, 1963 [Centre Pompidou, Paris. © Galerie de France, Paris. Photo: © Audrey Laurans/Centre Pompidou]

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Brion Gysin, Untitled, 1960 [Centre Pompidou, Paris. © Galerie de France, Paris. Photo: © Georges Meguerditchian/Centre Pompidou]

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Brion Gysin, Untitled, 1960 [Centre Pompidou, Paris. © Galerie de France, Paris. Photo: © Audrey Laurans/Centre Pompidou]

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Brion Gysin’s Dreamachine, with two calligraphic drawings by Brion Gysin, Text by Andrew McKenzie (The Hafler Trio), R. Botnik T.V. / The World Network System Communication, 1988, Edition of 100 numbered copies [BeatBooks, Longborough, Compton, West Sussex]. Cover Art by Gysin

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Dreamachine Plans created by Brion Gysin, Temple Press Limited, Brighton, Sussex, 1992 [BeatBooks, Longborough, Compton, West Sussex]

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Brion Gysin, A Trip from Here to There, 1958 [MoMA, New York, NY]

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“WE ARE HERE TO GO” - @briongysin

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We remember back in 1986 when Brion Gysin was becoming ever more sick. We visited him the week before he dropped his body. At one point, he asked me to go out and have a coffee while the funeral staff came to measure him for a coffin. He was pale, as if he were literally fading away from reality and becoming semitransparent. We took a Polaroid, one of our prized possessions. "Gen," he said, "I can't take this pain any longer. I need to go." Our heart faltered for a second. He was our mentor, our teacher, our engine of hope. And he was leaving. We said to him, very  sincerely and seriously, "I'm going to make sure that nobody forgets about how important your work is until it gets recognized." It became one of our life tasks. To proselytize his works, his ideas; keep his books and artworks available and influential. This is what we've done. He deserved it. He generated the most important techniques and tools of the last century for short-circuiting control and moving the culture in a new direction.

from NONBINARY by Genesis P-Orridge

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https://monoskop.org/images/3/37/Painful_But_Fabulous_The_Lives_and_Art_of_Genesis_P-Orridge.pdf