Brion Gysin: His Name Was Master (Trapart Books 2018)
Texts and Interviews by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, with Peter Christopherson. Edited with notes by Andrew M. McKenzie. Introductions by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge & Carl Abrahamsson.
Brion Gysin (1916–86) has been an incredibly influential artist and iconoclast: his development of the “cut-up” technique with William S. Burroughs has inspired generations of writers, artists and musicians. Gysin was also a skilled networker and revered expat: together with his friend Paul Bowles, he more or less constructed the post-beatnik romanticism for life and magic in Morocco, and was also a protagonist in an international gay culture with inspirational reaches in both America and Europe. Not surprisingly, Gysin has become something of a cult figure.
One of the artists he inspired is Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, who collaborated with both Gysin and Burroughs in the 1970s, during his work with Throbbing Gristle and COUM Transmissions. The interviews made by P-Orridge have since become part of a New Wave/Industrial mythos. This volume presents them in their entirety alongside three texts on Gysin by P-Orridge, plus an introduction. This book is an exclusive insight into the mind of a man P-Orridge describes as “a kind of Leonardo da Vinci of the last century,” and a fantastic complement to existing biographies and monographs.
This amazing book is available as a paperback, hardback and in a bundle with a Genesis P-Orridge print edition.
Please note: this book is now available on pre-order. Orders will be sent out late February 2018.
The book Brion Gysin: His Name Was Master focusses on the creative relationship between Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Brion Gysin. To celebrate the release of this long awaited book, we have made an edition together with Genesis of a truly classic P-Orridge image: “Mum & Dad” from 1971. The print is on archival paper in size A3 (420 x 297 mm) and is limited to 32 signed, stamped and numbered copies. Together with the print comes a hardbound copy of the book (copies 1-32 out of one hundred in total).
Order the P-Orridge Print Edition
Please note: this book is now available on pre-order (book orders will be sent out late February 2018). The print is available NOW and will be dispatched separately and immediately after ordering.
