A Review of The Name Is Burroughs: expanded media at the ZKM, Karlsruhe Curated by Axel Heil, Udo Breger and Peter Weibel March 24 — August 8, 2012 Text: Ian MacFadyen Photographs: Eric Andersen .” . .the city moved in swirls and eddies and tornadoes of image. . .” Off the Map This is a…
Tag: Ian MacFadyen
Terry Wilson: Cutting Up for Real
The Writing of Perilous Passage Terry Wilson in Conversation with Ian MacFadyen As his book Perilous Passage is published by Synergetic Press, Terry Wilson talks with Ian MacFadyen about the 15 years he spent creating this unique work which embodies and develops the radical Third Mind techniques of William Burroughs and Brion Gysin. Wilson was…
A Trip from Here to There
Brion Gysin: Dream Machine at the Institut D’Art Contemporain Villeurbanne / Rhone-Alpes. 16 October — 28 November 2010. by Ian MacFadyen “Everybody here comes from somewhere.” — Michael Stipe “Everything was alive like me on this earth, everything was breathing.” — Brion Gysin Gysin Homage One | Burroughs-Gysin Excursus | Gysin Homage Two Gysin Homage…
Return to Peyton Place
From Package magazine, Spring 1969 Tim Head interviewed by Joe Gilbert, 2 a.m. December 5th 1968 Introduced by Ian MacFadyen The 1969 issue of Package magazine consisted of several A3 stiff paper sheets folded and encased in a white paper bag featuring an ink drawing of a sailor from Battleship Potemkin by Brian O’Toole. It…
The Mouth Inside: The Voices of Naked Lunch
By Ian MacFadyen Paintings by Phil Wood Merging The live reading of Naked Lunch at St Mark’s Poetry Project in New York this October (2009) focused attention on the book as profoundly oral both in its origins and effects. Readers have long been inspired to spontaneously read the text aloud, and Naked Lunch contains a…
i.m. Simon Vinkenoog
Dutch Poet and Burroughs Associate, RIP 12 July 2009 by Ian MacFadyen Singer and writer Eric Andersen, artist Alison Harper and myself visited Simon and Edith Vinkenoog in Amsterdam in 2008. Simon and Edith were most gracious in their welcome and hospitality and showed us some wonderful books and artworks from their collection. It was…
Playing with Fire: The Last Painting of Brion Gysin
Brion Gysin: Calligraffiti of Fire by Ian MacFadyen The exhibition of Brion Gysin’s Calligraffiti of Fire at the October Gallery in London is a major event. This is the first time the artist’s legendary final work, executed in 1985, has been shown in Britain and the exhibition provides a unique opportunity to experience the painting…
Henry Miller and William Burroughs: A Letter
by Ian MacFadyen RealityStudio sent the text of Henry Miller and William Burroughs: An Overview to a few friends and scholars for input. While everyone made helpful comments, Ian MacFadyen — currently working on the introduction to the volume of essays that will comemmorate the 50th anniversary of Naked Lunch — replied with a spirited,…