GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE : BLOOD – SEX – MAGIC
2011-10-24New exhibition by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, who was born in Manchester in 1950 and now lives and works in New York.
In the 1970s, a British MP described Genesis P-Orridge and his band Throbbing Gristle as “wreckers of Western civilization.” What was intended as an insult became an artistic principle. For 45 years now, Genesis P-Orridge has been at the front of aesthetic extremism. His microcosm includes the atonal noise attacks of Industrial Music granddaddy Throbbing Gristle, the post-psychedelic sound garlands of Psychic TV and performance activities, whose pleasure in breaking taboos is reminiscent of the Vienna Actionism movement.
Exhibition runs through to November 5th, 2011
Christine Koenig Galerie
Schleifmuehlgasse 1A
1040 Vienna
Austria
www.christinekoeniggalerie.com
