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Thu, Jul 15, 2010
7:00 PM

New Museum Theater (directions)

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge in Conversation about Brion Gysin and Other Matters

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Founder of the bands Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge was also a friend and an acolyte of Brion Gysin. P-Orridge met Gysin in the 1970s, and was deeply influenced by him, and particularly his Cut-Up Method. Along with P-Orridge’s partner, the late Lady Jaye Breyer, P-Orridge created and lived by the notion of pandrogeny, which advocated the merging of the sexes via the Cut-Up. Through a series of operations, P-Orridge and Lady Jaye became examples of a “third sex,” a riff on Gysin’s lifelong collaboration with William Burroughs that culminated in the collage work The Third Mind.

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Major lead support for “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine” is provided by Shane Akeroyd, Shelley Fox Aarons and Philip Aarons.

Generous grants have also been provided by the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Art and the Terra Foundation for American Art.


This exhibition is also made possible by generous contributions from Lonti Ebers and J. Bruce Flatt, the Robert Lehman Foundation, and The Robert Mapplethorpe Photography Fund. Additional support provided by Susan Hancock and Hilary and Peter Hatch. Support for the accompanying publication is made possible by the J. McSweeney and G. Mills Publications Fund at the New Museum.