Notations in the Flicker: Brion Gysin’s Text and Image Now
Thursday, September 23, 7pm
New Museum Theatre
The New Museum hosts two consecutive lectures on topics related to the exhibition “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine.” Emphasizing interdisciplinary, they link Brion Gysin’s work and legacy to contemporary systems and practices that are constantly rethinking and redeploying the contexts in which they are operating. All of the participants, in their specific ways, see Gysin as a model for rethinking the driving ideas of their practices. The New Museum’s Kraus Family Senior Curator Laura Hoptman discusses aspects of the exhibition “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine,” and addresses Gysin’s work in the framework of drawing as an expanded field. Anthropologist Michael Taussig discusses Gysin’s techniques and ideas in connection with the work of William S. Burroughs, with focus on notions of field notation and their relationship to ideas of drawing, synesthesia, and communication.
A subsequent panel with Gean Moreno, Maika Pollack, Dan Torop, and Jesse Bransford on topics related to “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine” will take place on Thursday, September 30, at 6:30 p.m. at the Einstein Auditorium at 34 Stuyvesant Street, hosted by the Department of Art and Art Professions at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
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