A revealing and beautifully open memoir from pioneering industrial music artist, visual artist, and transgender icon Genesis P-Orridgenow in paperbackIn this groundbreaking book spanning decades of artistic risk-taking, the inventor of industrial music, founder of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and world-renowned fine artist with COUM Transmissions, Genesis P-Orridge (19502020) takes us on a journey searching for identity and their true self. It is the story of a life of creation and destruction, where Genesis P-Orridge reveals their unwillingness to be stuckstuck in one place, in one genre, or in one gender. Nonbinary is Genesiss final work and is shared with hopes of being an inspiration to the newest generation of trailblazers and nonconformists.Nonbinary is the intimate story of Genesiss life, weaving the narrative of their history in COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle, and Psychic TV. It also covers growing up in World War IIs fallout in Britain, contributing to the explosion of new music and radical art in the 1960s, and destroying visual and artistic norms throughout their entire life. In addition to being a captivating memoir of a singular artist and musician, Nonbinary is also an inside look at one of our most remarkable cultural lives that will be an inspiration to fans of industrial music, performance art, the occult, and a life in the arts.
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Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
Publication Date: 10 Nov 2022
Publisher: Abrams
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781419749773
About Genesis P-Orridge
Genesis Breyer P-orridge (19502020) was a legendary singer-songwriter musician writer occultist cultural engineer and visual artist. P-Orridge rose to notoriety as the founder of the COUM Transmissions art collective which operated in Britain from 1969 to 1976. P-Orridge cofounded and fronted the pioneering industrial band Throbbing Gristle and the experimental multi-media outfit Psychic TV paralleled by P-Orridges cofounding of the communal network Temple Ov Psychick Youth. In 1996 P-Orridge and partner Lady Jaye embarked on the Pandrogyne Project a living art concept that blended physical and psychological mediums creating the unified Breyer P-Orridge. In recent years P-Orridge performed with their spoken word project Thee Majesty which in the past included such collaborators as William S. Burroughs Brion Gysin Timothy Leary Monte Cazazza Aaron Dilloway Merz-bow Tony Conrad and countless others. P-Orridge also continued performing sold-out shows all over the world with PTV3 an iteration of Psychic TV that spanned almost two decades. Over the past 50 years P-Orridges artworks have been exhibited in hundreds of museums and galleries across the world cementing P-Orridges prolific career of contributions to Fluxus mail art collage sound poetry and conceptual art. The archives of Genesis P-Orridge were acquired for the permanent collection of Londons Tate Britain in 2010.