Cosey Fanni Tutti
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Christine Carol Newby, better known as Cosey Fanni Tutti, is an English performance artist, musician, and writer, best known for her time in the avant-garde groups Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey.
Cosey Fanni Tutti performing with Throbbing Gristle in Brooklyn, New York in 2009
COUM Transmissions
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COUM Transmissions was a music and performance art collective who operated in the United Kingdom from 1969 through to 1976. The collective was influenced by the Dada and surrealism artistic movements,
Cosey Fanni Tutti
…the opera Così fan tutte, literally meaning "That's what they all do"— they being women, hence, "That's what all women do". Tutti was a performer with COUM Transmissions, of which she was a founding member in 1969. Her addition changed the nature of the group, which had been mostly a musical venture. From that point on…
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Genesis P-Orridge, the founder of COUM Transmissions, in Japan during the 1980s or 1990s.
"Yes COUM are fab and kinky" (1971), an example of the artwork which P-Orridge produced to advertise the artistic-musical group; the primary image is of himself as a child. Underneath L to R Tim Poston, Spydeee Gasmantell, Genesis, Haydn Robb, John Smith, Menzies.
The building of 10 Martello Street, London, where COUM established their studio in 1973.