Exhibition Program for "45 Tours" (1967)

Paris: n.p. [60 rue Mazarine] (exhibition brochure), 1967.
8.5" x 5.375", 8 pages [4 are printed], not stapled.

An exhibition brochure for 45 Tours, an exhibition of art from Arthur Aeschbacher, Paul-Armand Gette, David Hayes, Alice Hutchins, Françoise Janicot, and Guy de Rougement, with books by Brion Gysin and Bernard Heidsieck. This occurred between 19-30 May 1967 at 60 rue Mazarine, Paris, France.

At the bottom of the cover is a note that “Guerilla [sic] Conditions” by Antony Balch, starring William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, was screened on 20 May 1967 at Studiorama (41 Av. de Wagram) in Paris. A screening of the original film – a documentary on Burroughs and Gysin – is a rare event, as the project was abandoned by Balch (I suspect soon after this screening).

As noted at Wikipedia's entry on Antony Balch and his film Guerrilla Conditions and the derived film The Cut-Ups: "A second Balch/Burroughs collaboration film, The Cut-Ups, opened in London in 1967. This was part of an abandoned project called Guerrilla Conditions meant as a documentary on Burroughs and filmed throughout 1961-1965. Inspired by Burroughs' and Gysin's technique of cutting up text and rearranging it in random order, Balch had an editor cut his footage for the documentary into little pieces and impose no control over its reassembly. The film opened at Oxford Street's Cinephone cinema and had a disturbing reaction. Many audience members claimed the film made them ill, others demanded their money back, while some just stumbled out of the cinema ranting 'its disgusting'".

This copy was acquired from Librería del Astillero (Colindres, Spain).

External Links:

• Wikipedia: Antony Balch