Choreographer

Brion Gysin

British-Canadian painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist (1916-1986)

Born 1916 · TaplowDied 1986CanadaUnited States
Brion Gysin
Image: Carl Van Vechten · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Brion Gysin was a Canadian choreographer, born in 1916 in Taplow, who died in 1986.

Biography

Brion Gysin (; 19 January 1916 – 13 July 1986) was a British-Canadian painter, writer, sound poet, performance artist and inventor of experimental devices.

He is best known for his use of the cut-up technique, alongside his close friend, the novelist William S. Burroughs. With the engineer Ian Sommerville he also invented the Dreamachine, a flicker device designed as an art object to be viewed with the eyes closed. It was in painting and drawing, however, that Gysin devoted his greatest efforts, creating calligraphic works inspired by cursive Japanese "grass" script and Arabic script. Burroughs later stated that "Brion Gysin was the only man I ever respected."

From the Wikipedia article “Brion Gysin”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Facts from Wikidata (Q917570), CC0.