NOTES ON DYADIC CYCLONES (2)
Curated by Benjamin Tischer / New Discretions
A mini-online exhibition based on one text of John Lilly, gifted to the organizer by Genesis Preyer P-Orridge. “The Dyadic cyclone is the combination of two personal centres. In this book it is a male and female combination -- two rotating cyclones with their enclosed centres, one rotating to the right and the other rotating to the left. In The Dyadic Cyclone, Toni and John ask the question 'Is it possible to merge two centres, two cyclones, one male, one female, in such a way that there can be a rising, quiet centre shared by both?' In our five years together, we have sought means to achieve this between us. This book is the story of that five years insofar as we can tell it at this time.”
Source material. The Third Mind remains the key to pandrogeny. Burroughs and Gysin are the queering of the cyclone. The original collages were included in Laura Hoptman’s retrospective of Brion Gysin at the New Museum in 2010. Genesis considered both Burroughs and Gysin mentors, spending innumerable hours with each.
BREYER P-ORRIDGE
Touching of Hands, 2016
Edition of 3
Bronze, brass, steel, patina
20 x 20 x 19.75 in (50.8 x 50.8 x 50.2 cm)
BPO16 2-2
Genesis insisted that knowledge is best passed on through the “touching of hands.” The first edition of this bronze is permanently installed at the Rubin Museum of Art. There, one may make the gesture of touching the hand of Genesis. (This was one of their favorite museums.)