Purple Art
[11/14/2014]
Interview with Johan Kugelberg curator of “Cut-Ups: William S. Burroughs 1914 – 2014”, New York
“You cannot will spontaneity. But you can introduce the unpredictable spontaneous factor with a pair of scissors.” The Cut-Up Technique — the act of disassembling an artistic work at random and reorganizing it into something new — was first introduced to William S. Burroughs by his close friend artist Brion Gyson in 1959. Burroughs, who […]
