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Billie Ray Martin interview: The Opiates & Hollywood under the knife (2012)

music + art room
Chelsea Butkowski, R.J. Preece (ADP) - 14 Jan 12

Billie Ray Martin interview: The Opiates & Hollywood under the knife (2012) Divas, transvestites, and rising stars striving for sanity, identity, or that next plastic surgery fix. Their stories, among others, are brought to life by the electronic beats of Hollywood under the knife,...

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Cosey Fanni Tutti vs. Donna Summer’s
Love to love you baby (Automated music)

Art Design Publicity magazine
R.J. Preece (ADP) - 22 May 10

Cosey Fanni Tutti vs. Donna Summer’s Love to love you baby (Automated music) Around the time of Cosey’s breakthrough artwork in the middle-late 1970s, Love to love you baby was on heavy rotation in the artist’s life. Donna Summer. Love to love you baby. R.J. Preece: Is there...

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Cosey Fanni Tutti & Genesis P-Orridge in 1976: Media frenzy, Prostitution-style

Art Design Publicity magazine
ADP staff, John A. Walker - 10 Aug 09

Cosey Fanni Tutti & Genesis P-Orridge in 1976: Media frenzy, Prostitution-style With COUM Transmissions, the two shocked with Prostitution at London’s ICA 33 years ago, generating a discussion across the media. Anyone who publicly declares that their art show was "a joke... a parody of all...

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Radical Art in 1970s Britain: 1976 (2002)

Art Design Publicity magazine
John A. Walker - 08 May 02

Radical Art in 1970s Britain: 1976 (2002) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Left Shift which gives a year-by-year account of developments. Radical Art in 1970s Britain: 1976 Cover image: Jordan in Derek Jarman’s film Jubilee, (1978). In China, Chairman Mao Zedong and Chou En-Lai died; and the...

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Mail Art (1992)

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John A. Walker (glossary) - 12 Jun 92

Mail Art (1992) (Also Communication Art, Correspondence Art, Envois, Postal Sculpture.) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Mail Art During the 1970s and ’80s, international communication networks (but mainly in Europe and North America)...

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Throbbing Gristle

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John A. Walker (Cross-overs) - 20 Mar 87

...Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson and Chris Carter devised for their "rock" group. Throbbing Gristle lasted for several years and during its existence numerous LPs and sound and video cassettes were issued. A typical tape— Beyond Jazz Funk: TG Psychic rally in...

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COUM Transmissions to Psychic TV (1987)

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John A. Walker (Cross-overs) - 20 Mar 87

...Genesis P-Orridge is a case in point. He was a leading figure first in the Performance group COUM Transmissions (1969-76), then in the music groups Throbbing Gristle (1976-81) and Psychic TV (1981- ). Genesis P-Orridge (originally Neil Andrew Megson) was born in Manchester in 1950. He came...

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COUM Transmissions. Prostitution flyer (1976)

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COUM Transmissions. Prostitution flyer (1976) COUM Transmissions. (1976). Prostitution. Flyer for exhibition at the ICA, London. 29.6 x 21 cm, with photo of Cosey Fanni Tutti from Curious magazine. J.A. Walker collection.

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