[NetBehaviour] Beyond the Cut-up: William S. Burroughs and the Image at Photograper’s gallery

[netbehaviour]

Beyond the Cut-up: William S. Burroughs and the Image at Photograper’s 
gallery.

Sat 15 Feb, 2014

http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/beyond-the-cut-up-william-s-burroughs-and-the-image-conference

This conference Beyond the Cut-up: William S. Burroughs and the Image 
will explore new theoretical interventions and accounts of Burroughs’s 
ideas of the image, its effects and modes of operation, its impact on 
human consciousness, its complex embedding within textual and other 
fields, its psychological and ideological transformations of perception.

William S. Burroughs’s complex and provocative uses of the image 
challenge critical and theoretical orthodoxies. His works in writing, 
visual arts, cut-up and collage, painting, assemblage, photography, and 
in sonic arts, constantly return in multiple ways to a detailed and 
politically urgent enquiry into the nature and effects of the image, the 
word-as-image, and beyond.

Critical work on Burroughs’s art has hitherto focused mainly on his uses 
of cut-up techniques. However, his works offer very diverse responses to 
the multiple political and emotional functions of images in relation to 
modern and postmodern societies of control, and enable explorations of 
the status and potentials of the artist as agent within these contexts. 
These themes are insistent Burroughsian concerns.

At The Photographers’ Gallery, 16 – 18 Ramillies St, London W1F 7LW.