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Handbill for COUM Transmissions'...

Handbill for COUM Transmissions' 'Prostitution' exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, October 1976 Courtesy Tate Archive

TATE on COUM Transmissions
http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue22/tbneedisplays.htm

The text on COUM Transmissions compounds an often re-iterated misconception about COUM Transmissions. For the sake of Astorical accuracy only, we add this correction.

COUM Transmissions was received as a series of visions by Genesis (Breyer) P-Orridge in Shrewsbury, Shropshire late Summer of 1969. Genesis  founded COUM Transmissions as an art project alone. There were NO co-founders. He had never met, nor heard of Christine Carol Newby  (later Christened Cosmosis by Genesis) at that time. The original members of COUM Transmissions were G P-O and John Jesus Shapeero. Later on Dr Timothy poston, Ian "Spydee" Evetts, Peter "Pinglewad" Winstanley all became members. Cosey began her connection with COUM Transmissions performances around 1971-72. She had however, always supported Genesis and COUM both conceptually as a member of the "Coumunity" at the HoHo Funhouse and functionally creating costumes and props. After beginning to also take part in street actions and arts festival performances she grew to add a unique and powerful element and became an integral aspect of the ever more intimate and extreme actions of COUM Transmissions. A perfect foil in the later explorations of sexuality, gender and stereotypes.

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge NYC 2011.
 

THEE MAJESTY AT BAM - June 23, 2011

Following BAMcinemaFEST's screening of The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, film ticket holders are invited to a free post-film concert with Thee Majesty.

Thee Majesty began in 1998 as a spoken word project, originally founded by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV and Bryin Dall of 4th Sign of the Apocalypse, A Murder of Angels and Dreams Into Dust. Featuring P-Orridge, Thee Majesty is made up of a revolving group of members including Edley O'Dowd of Psychic TV. Thee Majesty's music is a mix of spoken word performance art against Dall's free-flowing guitar rhythms and Edley's atmospheric percussion. Free with purchase of movie ticket for The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye.

The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye screens on Thu, Jun 23 at 6:50pm.

For more information and tickets go to: http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=3282

Premiere Of "The Ballad Of Genesis And Lady Jaye" At...

Premiere Of "The Ballad Of Genesis And Lady Jaye" At The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival

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THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE TRIBECA PREMIERE PARTYAPRIL...

THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE TRIBECA PREMIERE PARTY
APRIL 25th at BOWERY ELECTRIC (327 Bowery)
Following our NYC premiere. 9pm – midnight

Presented with the The French Cultural Services of the French Embassy,
Exile on Bowery, Claire O'Connor Public Relations, & Vibes Management

DJ Sets by Filmmaker Marie Losier, Edley ODowd (Psychic TV/PTV3), Scott Ewalt, Jan Woo,
Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria, & DJ Colin Beckett

Free entrance with a guest with RSVP to: info@balladofgenesisandladyjaye.com

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS:
4/25, 7:00pm AMC Village 7 66 Third Ave
4/27, 9:00pm SVA Theatre 333 West 23rd St
4/28, 3:00pm CCC 7 Chelsea Clearview Cinemas 260 West 23rd St

Seven years in the making, Ballad is a mesmerizing and deeply romantic love story between pioneering musician and performance artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and soul mate Lady Jaye.

Breaking new ground in its depiction of gender transformation and identity, the film chronicles the physical and spiritual merging of two beings into one. – Jon Gartenberg

Lady Jaye Full memorial movie is now uploaded at:

Lady Jaye Full memorial movie is now uploaded at:

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KICKSTARTER for "The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye". A film by Marie Losier.

The team for The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye are doing a Kickstarter to raise the necessary funds to have Psychic TV / PTV3 perform at the US premiere of the film at South By Southwest in Austin, TX on March 15th. The festival does not give funds to fly bands in. We have received a small grant but it doesn't cover all of the air tickets and hotels that we need. Please pledge something, anything. There are great incentives listed, so in addition to helping, you actually get something cool in return.

Please visit:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ptvballadsxsw/bring-psychic-tv-and-the-ballad-of-genesis-and-lad?play=1&ref=users

For more information about the film:
http://www.balladofgenesisandladyjaye.com/ballad/

Мишка's clothing line for Spring 2011 includes a...

Мишка's clothing line for Spring 2011 includes a collaboration with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge with 4 new T-shirts bearing iconic Psychic TV image. There's one of a corroded Psychic Cross. There's one featuring the unforgettable and frightening cover of Psychic TV's Unclean 12″ single. There's also a remake of t-shirt worn in one the groups most iconic photos featuringthe eyes of Charles Manson. Another with Cyco Simon crucified to the psychic cross instructs the Psychick Youth to rise. Also produced are fitted New Era hat featuring thee Psychic Cross. The prestige piece of this collection is our Psychic M65 jacket, a long camoflage coat with a removable hood and ornamented with Psychick icons inside and out. There are four patches, two buttons, a Psychic Cross pattern lining and on the back there's the word "PSYCHIC" in embroidered in an arc over the Psychic Cross.

Also being released is a new and exclusive interview with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge which was conducted by Nicholas Gazin (Artist/Writer/All-ARound Hipster) as part of this collaboration. The interview explains who this person is to the uninitiated and explores he/r for the familiar. The 22 page interview features a preview of our entire capsule collection and was conducted not long after Genesis' most recent transition from one home to another and focuses on the reasons behind the dramatic changes that have occurred in he/r lifetime.

The entire capsule collection will be available in a couple of weeks along with the first drop of Мишка's Spring 2011 collection.

Read Through the Wormhole: An Interview With Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

OTTT - One true tribe mission statemeant, 2011

A call to action.
An invite.
Extended to Those GENuinely interested in developing a new TOPI coum-UNITY to becoum involved in discussions at
http://truetopi.ning.com/
WHO WANTS REAL CHANGE?
 
 
Thee motive?
To build…an ongoing nettwork of centres and creation -based communities.
 
When WE say creation/Creation WE mean "creativity."We just feel Creativity is too simplistic and flimsy in its day to day use…"Creation" re-minds us that the act of CREATION is the most vital, essential source of all else. The book of Genesis begins with acts of CREATION. At the centre of ALL "existence" before T.I.M.E and SPACE is that first action, without which nothing can be perceived. CREATION….

OTTT find this a vitally impoprtant distiction and linguistic foundation. So by stressing the magicakalcore we  re-MIND our SELF that this is Dvine work, Divine activity, devition to Creation is prayer and perception coumbined to manifest the billions of Individual Universes that already co-mingle on earth.

Each humanE Being lives entirely within THEIR lifelong personal Universe. Others come and go within it, but only the Individual is present 24 x 7 in THEIR Universe. and present at every momeant that their senses and
consciousness(s)  EXPERIENCE.
 

http://truetopi.ning.com/
The One True Topi Tribe Mission State-Meant.
 
THEE CURRENT SITUATION
Western materialist capitalism. That's obviously already failed. It's been running on an empty tank for so long, andthe next step is China of course, which is totalitarian capitalist— Russia, too. It's where you use violent force and threats and fear to control the economy for profit. But all of them are going to collapse; it's inevitable. You can't have infinite growth forever when you're on a finite piece of planet. We thought to preempt all that, we'd start with the patch, hence, "The One True Topi Tribe."

THEE OPEN ROAD AHEAD
In any movement— be it new or regurgitated or reassembled in a new way with a different emphasis,especially in street culture— there are certain things that are very helpful. One is to have a great logo. Well, we already had that with the Psychick Cross. It was beautifully ubiquitous. Another possibility is cheap, easy outfits. It's accessible to everyone who's willing to make the
investment for a patch. That's why, in the beginning, industrial [style] was old camo and clothing, and it didn't matter if it got dirty. Actually, being dirty was part of the function. This time, it's a leather jacket or a denim vest. Slice off the sleeves, put a patch on it, and then decorate it how you wish with your own particulars. It gives you instant recognition and a very easy form of entry into groups, so that you see it and know that these people are probably going to have very similar thoughts to you. That's why we're working on that now, in advance of the collapse. A lot of people don't know, but actually one of the Temple ov Psychick Youth [TOPY] access points was a motorcycle club. called the Illuminati of Bavaria Motorcycle Club. Still got my colors from that. They were based in Portland, Oregon, and there were over 20 of them, all with bikes. It was a real motorbike club, an actual outlaw motorbike club. In the '80s, when it was really thriving (and when TOPY was too), we would tear down the West Coast and catch up with them in Portland. Then we'd have them as outriders as we went down the Coast. We were in our old school bus— a '66 school bus— with the words "Even Further" written on the front, and it all looked fantastic going down the freeway. Very post-apocalyptic, very Mad Max.All very functional,mobile, nomadic, flexible. And even though it might look extreme in the way that we are deliberately inserting a movie into everyday life, the lines are so blurred anyway right now. It's a good way of giving people strategies to work with. Even if you are using something as a metaphor or just for fun, it can still say to people, "Don't forget, because you might find that useful in 'the futures'. That might be how you find yourself needing to operate." For those people who wish to have a fulfilling, creative, and more free-flowing and free-thinking way of life, they need to take it upon themselves to build autonomous units that give that to them. The way to do that is to find enough like-minded people to create this super organism that is the sum-total of everyone involved. Partly why we've been using "we" so much, instead of "me", "you", etc.
 
FIND THEE OTHERS
At the very beginning, we were seeking out what we nicknamed "hotspots" in the culture. At any time, there are usually pretty obvious signs of what's exciting at the moment. We made the effort to find [William S.] Burroughs and hang out with him, and people have made the effort to find me. Then people make the effort to find them, and so on. It's very much an organic thing. It's an amazingly simple, but unusual process.
 
THEE NEXT-NEW WAY-ON
Psychic TV: new guitarist, new sound. That doesn't meant it's, "Oh shit, it doesn't sound like us anymore." Instead it's, "Oh great! It doesn't sound like us anymore!" It's always been very flexible. One of the great things about it is that it keeps changing. On our last tour, we started to get a little bit tired, and one night we were sitting in the dressing room and they were all yelling for an encore. We just had this moment where we turned to Jeff and said, "Have you ever heard 'Maggot Brain' by Funkadelic?" "Yeah, of course." "Ok, you're the encore for tonight." And he says, "But there's a piano part." So we look at Jess and she says, "Don't look at me, I've never heard of Funkadelic." So he says, "It's easy. B flat, A, C, and la
dee da." She says, "Ok, I can do that." So they walked onstage in Moscow and played "Maggot Brain" for 20 minutes and totally entranced the audience. So Ed, when we got home, he said, "We should record that."
 
We improv most things, actually. "Maggot Brain" really isn't really the old "Maggot Brain" at all anymore, just a few notes here and there. That truly made me like music again, because in all honesty we'd kind of lost interest in Throbbing Gristle, and we thought we'd stop doing Psychic TV, and that was fine. When it's not exciting, when it's not giving anything, and nothing is moving, then don't do it. Like we were saying before, go where the action is. Then suddenly the action is in PTV3 [current incarnation of Psychic TV], and the music is just really good and fun to play. We're shredding the speakers and doing wild prog rock. So that happened simultaneously with the idea of making a network again, with the biker sort of structure.
 
It's all exciting. It's been a while since we've been this excited. I mean, obviously we've been grieving for Lady Jaye for the past 3 years. All things considered, we've been pretty productive and efficient, despite that. There's this huge influx of energy and it's coming from the grassroots; it's coming from young people coming in. We're kind of being taught at the moment by new people to reevaluate everything. Not just throw things away because we've already done them, but reassess and rebuild and extend whatever's working. It's a really interesting time.

We're buzzing, yeah. It's a hotspot… And yes, we are going
to get motorbikes.
-Genesis P-Orridge/OTTT 2011 One true tribe mission statemeant

ART IN AMERICA: Genesis Breyer P-Orrdge at Moving Image

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Moving Image will run Mar. 3–6 in the Waterfront Tunnel building at 216 11th Ave. in Chelsea, NY not far from the Armory and Winkleman's gallery. It will feature about 30 single-channel videos on flat-panel monitors suspended from the ceiling, as well as about eight larger video installations.