Palais De Tokyo is presenting “The Third Mind” September 27 through January 3rd. These three words are loaded for they speak directly to a seminal work about artistic process written by William S Burroughs and Brion Gysin.
I will not be in Paris during this event, however I learned a lot from “The Third Mind” when I read it initially (as well as when I re-read it). The book or series of writings introduced the world to the idea of collage as a writing tool. It has become (to me) the definitive writing on the power of collage and chance in artworks.
William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin worked out the cut-up method which consists of cutting up and reassembling various fragments of sentences to give them a completely new and unexpected meaning. The Third Mind is the title they devised following this method. They were so greatly impressed by its contents that they felt it had been composed by a third person, a third author, a synthesis of their two personalities. 1+1 = 3.
About The Show
Ugo Rondinone sets out to cut up and remix the contemporary artistic landscape to allow a new meaning to emerge from it. A new artwork(s) composed from the assembled works of thirty-one different artists, constitutes a fully fledged work in its right, a new, spectral work created by a third mind, a third artist, the product of the meeting between Ugo Rondinone and his selections.
For more information:
www.palaisdetokyo.com
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