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Genesis Breyer P-Orridge exhibit

By Psyche | October 10, 2009

Thee Chariot, 1989

Thee Chariot, 1989

Genesis P-Orridge is a musician and artist perhaps best known for his band Psychic TV.

S/he is presently being represented by a New York gallery, Invisible Exports, which is showing a collection of hir art “30 Years of Being Cut Up” from September 9th to October 18th,1 select images of which can be viewed on their website.

From the press release:

In the early 1970s, P-Orridge met William S. Burroughs, who introduced h/er to Brion Gysin, marking the beginning of a seminal and influential collaborative relationship. Burroughs, under Gysin’s tutelage, repopularized the “cut-up” technique of the early 20th century Surrealists, in which text, or narrative imagery, is cut up and re-organized, creating a new, non-linear formulation. The supremely Dadaist practice would influence P-Orridge throughout h/er career and remains an integral element of h/er work, highlighted in “30 Years of Being Cut Up.” [...]

“30 Years of Being Cut Up” is a three decade retrospective of photomontage and Expanded Polaroids, which includes many works never exhibited before, as well as a sampling of P-Orridge’s early Mail Art. The show will mark the culmination of a new, re-emergent phase in BREYER P-ORRIDGE’s life. He/r career — and most particularly he/r recent pursuit of pandrogyny — tests the limits of transgression and traces the tragic fate of the underground, proving again the expressive power and pervasive influence of those artists who take the world not as it comes to them — sensible, orthodox, predictable — but as they would like it to be.

P-Orridge was recently interviewed by Frater Puck for the OTO’s podcast, for Thelema NOW!. In this interview s/he discusses the new exhibit. Check it out for more about it from P-Orridge hirself.

Invisible Exports is located in the Lower East Side, at 14A Orchard Street, just north of Canal. The hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 11 am to 6:30 pm, and by appointment.

If anyone gets the chance to visit the gallery I’d love to hear about what you think about the exibit.

Footnotes:

  1. Or twentieth, according to the podcast linked to below. [back]

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