Calendars:XPUB/XPUB Calendar/06-10-2025 -Event 1

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XPUB1: SI #28 – Week 3 in the Aquarium WH.4.115✅

Roles

  • producer: Ema
  • moderator: Youjung
  • secretary: Bart
  • observer: Sibyl

Monday 6 October

  • 10:00 - 11:00: Radio Broadcast #03 Those with assigned roles at Radio WORM Studio, the others at school (aquarium) to listen
  • 12:15 - 13:00: Broadcast debrief / discussion
  • Pad
  • 13:00 - 14:00: Lunch break
  • 14:00 - 17:00: Afternoon session
Brion Gysin

“When you cut into the present, the future leaks out.” William S. Burroughs
In which we examine the cut-up techniques of Burroughs & Gysin, informed by the following texts:
Brion Gysin – Cut-Up Self-Explained (1970)
William Burroughs – The Cut-Up Methods of Brion Gysin
Oliver Harris – Introduction to William Burroughs’ Nova Express (1964) (2013)
William Burroughs - Nova Express (extract) (1964)
William Burroughs – The Electronic Revolution (c.1970)
William Burroughs - The Invisible Generation (c.1961-63)
William Burroughs - TIME (1964)

In this session we will concentrate on William Burroughs as 1960s tactical media activist, and how he and his collaborators used the media of text, tape and film.
There is also material to watch and listen to by Burroughs and Gysin on this pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Cut_up_pad