William S. Burroughs on Dreams

Excerpts from a lecture by William S. Burroughs on public discourse, recorded at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics on August 11, 1980. The complete 90 minute sound file can be downloaded at the Naropa Poetics Audio Archives: . (Other topics discussed include nuclear weapons, disarmament, aliens, function of the artist, writing, cut-up method, mind-altering drugs, reincarnation, television, and economics.) Timelapse photography by Martin Setvak: . Selected clips are from the 2008 and 2007 galleries. Music by Biosphere (“As the Sun Kissed the Horizon“ and “Poa Alpina“ from “Substrata,“ Origo Sound 1997). . Elmer KunstFabrikk 2009.