Gysin, Brion, 1916-1986
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1916 January 19 - 1986 July 13
Nationality
Canadian, British (born), French (based)
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
A Prayer Wheel for Brion Gysin (I Am That I Am...), 2010
Item — Box 289: [Barcode: 31858073143442]
Identifier: CC-52184-73305
Scope and Contents
Produced by endwar, "this object is modeled on the prayer wheels used in Tibetan Buddism. When spun, the device reads a potentially endless recursive variant of the divine tautology "I AM THAT I AM" used in one on Brion Gysin's permutation poems from 1960. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
2010
Filtered By
- Subject: Tautologic text X