Genesis P-Orridge
Billie Ray Martin interview: The Opiates & Hollywood under the knife (2012)
→ music + art roomChelsea 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,...
Cosey Fanni Tutti vs. Donna Summer’s
Love to love you baby (Automated music)
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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...
Venice Biennial 2009: The secret ADP report
→ Art Design Publicity magazineD.M. Gray, R.J. Preece (ADP) - 05 Oct 09
Venice Biennial 2009: The secret ADP report After you’ve read all the publicity, we mean "criticism", check out our take. After compiling our research on all of the activities at this year’s Venice Biennial, we spent a month considering various theoretical emplotments. We spoke to art...
Radical Art in 1970s Britain: 1976 (2002)
→ Art Design Publicity magazineJohn 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...
Mail Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn 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)...
Psychic TV (1987)
→ music + art roomJohn A. Walker (Cross-overs) - 20 Mar 87
...Genesis P-Orridge and Peter Christopherson formed a new partnership called "Psychic TV". The underlying themes of Throbbing Gristle— "sex, resistance, subversion and discipline"— were retained, but there was a desire to reach a broader audience. Psychic TV did not conceive of themselves as just...
Throbbing Gristle
→ music + art roomJohn 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...
COUM Transmissions to Psychic TV (1987)
→ music + art roomJohn 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...
COUM Transmissions. Prostitution flyer (1976)
→ café library - photoCOUM 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.
