Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson
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...
Cosey Fanni Tutti & Genesis P-Orridge in 1976: Media frenzy, Prostitution-style
→ Art Design Publicity magazineADP 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...
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...
Hipgnosis (1992)
→ music + art roomJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 08 Jun 92
Hipgnosis (1992) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Hipgnosis Hipgnosis is a neologism combining "hip" (new, groovy) and "gnosis" (mystical knowledge); also a pun on "hypnosis". It was also the name of an exceptionally creative British...
Psychic TV (1987)
→ music + art roomJohn A. Walker (Cross-overs) - 20 Mar 87
Psychic TV (1987) Excerpt from John A. Walker’s book, Cross-Overs: Art into Pop, Pop into Art. Psychic TV. Godstar. Psychic TV Following the dissolution of Throbbing Gristle in 1981, Genesis P-Orridge and Peter Christopherson formed a new partnership called "Psychic TV". The underlying themes...
Throbbing Gristle
→ music + art roomJohn A. Walker (Cross-overs) - 20 Mar 87
...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 Heaven (1980)— features tracks with such...
COUM Transmissions to Psychic TV (1987)
→ music + art roomJohn A. Walker (Cross-overs) - 20 Mar 87
COUM Transmissions to Psychic TV (1987) Excerpt from John A. Walker’s book, Cross-Overs: Art into Pop, Pop into Art. COUM Transmissions to Psychic TV Performing before a live audience is common to both Pop music and Performance art. It is not surprising, therefore, that some Performance artists...
