INELEGANT EPISTLES:
1.Carless Idle Chatter
2.Merely Nodding
3.Raw Mode Of Life
4. Rumour And Dishonour
5.Ugliness Is A Form Of Genius
The above is an excerpt from the "Kreeme Horn-In praise of the Grotesque" Essay by Genesis P-Orridge which appears in "The Fenris Wolf" Issue 5 available from Carl Abrahamsson's Edda publishing imprint.
http://www.edda.se/
North American orders can be placed through Edda's overseas distributor at http://www.jdholmes.com/shop/jdholmes/category/EddaPublishing.html
Elements of this writing were worked into a Collaborative recording with Cevin Key as "Beauty is the Enemy" appearing on Cevin's solo album "Music for Cats." Gen's left his spoken word piece on Cevin's answering machine, in keeping with how a lot of the Cevin Key/Download and Genesis Collaborations worked.
A few lines from the Oscar Wilde story "A picture of Dorian Gray" are appropriated in the "Kreeme Horn/ All Beauty is our Enemy" work.
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Carl Abrahamsson and Thomas Tibert revitalize HIGHBROW LOWLIFE...Collab with Genesis release Aug 15th
Reposted from Carl Abrahamsson's blog...
Highbrow Lowlife
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| Thomas Tibert, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Carl Abrahamsson. Photo by Ryan Martin. |
But... We have so much material in the archives and now also a much better distribution network for digital releases, so there's really nothing there to stop Highbrow Lowlife from becoming a very smooth vehicle for our musical expressions – new as well as old ones.
There will be physical/tangible releases too, mainly vinyl, but that takes slightly longer to strategize. So we'll begin slowly but surely by making as much material as possible available digitally.
The first release will be an EP called I Travel. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge reads a trippy poem to music that was originally made for our joint album Wordship (2004), but the EP also contains two remixes. The release date is August 15th, so stay alert!
We have just now fixed our own YouTube channel, where we'll post old as well as new films by Cotton Ferox, White Stains and other relevant acts/people. The first video posted is I Travel F-Side. Enjoy! To see it in a slightly better quality, please go straight to the clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HWzb2sSXoVI
A Highbrow Lowlife website is also being structured and will hopingly see the light of day late August.
Thanks for being interested. Stay tuned and you'll be provided with a lot of mind bending music!
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
From Genesis: Pre-order your limited edition deluxe copy of our new biographical photo book
Order at http://www.firstthirdbooks.com/books/genesis-breyer-p-orridge/
BORN NEIL ANDREW MEGSON IN 1950, REBORN
AS ARTIST GENESIS P-ORRIDGE IN 1971, REBORN ONCE AGAIN AS A GENDER-ERASING PANDROGYNE WITH H/ER OTHER HALF LADY JAYE SINCE 1993 – GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE HAS NEVER LET ART, LIFE OR EVOLUTION STAND IN THE WAY OF IMAGINATION.
IN A SPECIAL PACKAGE AVAILABLE TO ONLY
333 CUSTOMERS WORLD-WIDE.
AS ARTIST GENESIS P-ORRIDGE IN 1971, REBORN ONCE AGAIN AS A GENDER-ERASING PANDROGYNE WITH H/ER OTHER HALF LADY JAYE SINCE 1993 – GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE HAS NEVER LET ART, LIFE OR EVOLUTION STAND IN THE WAY OF IMAGINATION.
IN A SPECIAL PACKAGE AVAILABLE TO ONLY
333 CUSTOMERS WORLD-WIDE.
THIS DELUXE EDITION, ON PRESALE FROM 13 JULY, INCLUDES:
- a 323 page book, printed in Italy, in 6 colours (including silver Pantone) on 170gm Gardamat paper in 20cm x 27cm hardback, with a white linen spine, a mat varnished embossed cover and offering
- more than 350 selected images from h/er very personal archives and portraits from renowned international photographers
- an introduction by Mark Paytress exploring the motivations that drive Genesis to surrender h/er physical body to art
- personal commentary by Genesis on photographs throughout the book.
- The book will be numbered and signed by Genesis, and the first 100 buyers may request a personalised message (no longer than 100 characters).
- a 96 page catalogue of h/er artworks and h/er collaborations with Lady Jaye, many appearing in a current retrospective at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA.
- three 7 inch singles, pressed on colored (white, orange and silver) vinyl with original picture labels and presented in specially-designed record sleeves. Four tracks have been created specifically for this project, and the third single is comprised of conversations recorded by Mark, with both Genesis and fellow pandrogyne Lady Jaye.
- a 51cm square poster of intimate and explicit Polaroids revealing Genesis and Lady Jaye’s exploration of their bodies in their spiritual quest. Suitable for framing, but not for the easily-shocked.
- The deluxe edition is housed in a linen bound Japanese-inspired presentation box
with a cut-out PTV logo and weighs over 2.5 kilos.
GENESIS HAS SELECTED H/ER UNSEEN AND PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHS TO ILLUSTRATE H/ER JOURNEY OF LIFE AS CONTINUOUS CREATIVITY. H/ER TIME WITH LEGENDARY BANDS THROBBING GRISTLE AND PSYCHIC TV ARE INCLUDED, AS ARE MANY OF THE MYRIAD BAND MEMBERS OVER THE DECADES LIKE SLEAZY, JOHN BALANCE, DAVID TIBET, AND ALEX FERGUSSON. FANS LOOKING FOR CATEGORICAL PHOTO HISTORIES OF THE COMPLETE BAND LINEUPS SHOULD SEEK SOLACE ELSEWHERE, BUT APPRECIATORS OF GENESIS’S PHYSICAL AND PSYCHIC EVOLUTION WILL BE ENTHRALLED BY THIS SPECIAL TESTAMENT TO A LIFE SPENT EXPLORING THE OUTER LIMITS OF CREATIVE EXPRESSION. THE DELUXE EDITION WILL BE READY FOR SHIPPING FROM 23 SEPTEMBER 2013. VIVA LA EVOLUTION!
THE STANDARD EDITION, CONSISTING OF THE 323 PAGE BOOK AND LIMITED TO 990 COPIES, WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER FROM 13 AUGUST 2013.
Deluxe editions for all titles are available exclusively through this website.
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Friday, July 12, 2013
QUEER FILM SUMMER CAMP: JARMAN’S SEBASTIANE, PRESENTED BY GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE
QUEER FILM SUMMER CAMP: JARMAN’S SEBASTIANE, PRESENTED BY GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE
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Genesis Breyer P-Orridge will introduce Derek Jarman‘s Sebastiane (1976), the second film in the Queer Film Summer Camp series, presented by the Bureau and Peter Hargrove (see below).
IMDB page for Sebastiane
The cultural engineer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is an avant-garde anti-hero whose remarkable body of underground work reminds us that when you believe something, artistic integrity demands that you live by it too. In 2007 h/er partner Lady Jaye BREYER dropped h/er body. Since that time Genesis continues to represent the amalgam BREYER P-ORRIDGE in the material “world” and Lady Jaye represents the amalgam BREYER P-ORRIDGE in the immaterial “world” creating an ongoing interdimensional collaboration. Their work documents the physical alterations s/he and the late Lady Jaye, endured within their project Pandrogeny, about re-union and re-solution of male and female to a perfecting hermaphroditic state. Genesis is one of the most rigorous and relentless agents of the postwar Anglo-American vanguard, interrogating the meaning and substance of identity in a peerless half-century program of willful reincarnation and shape-shifting. Embracing the body as not simply the vessel but the site of the avant-garde impulse, BREYER P-ORRIDGE has reinvented and reintroduced h/erself again and again—as Fluxus pioneer, groundbreaking performance artist, inventor of industrial music, “wrecker of civilization,” essayist and theoretician, and, most recently, as pandrogyne.
www.genesisbreyerporridge.
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove, President of Hargrove Entertainment, Inc., proudly present Queer Film Summer Camp, a series devoted to queer films, or films viewed queerly. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on the nine consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture.
Suggested donation of $10
Drinks will be served at 7 PM
The introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM
IMDB page for Sebastiane
The cultural engineer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is an avant-garde anti-hero whose remarkable body of underground work reminds us that when you believe something, artistic integrity demands that you live by it too. In 2007 h/er partner Lady Jaye BREYER dropped h/er body. Since that time Genesis continues to represent the amalgam BREYER P-ORRIDGE in the material “world” and Lady Jaye represents the amalgam BREYER P-ORRIDGE in the immaterial “world” creating an ongoing interdimensional collaboration. Their work documents the physical alterations s/he and the late Lady Jaye, endured within their project Pandrogeny, about re-union and re-solution of male and female to a perfecting hermaphroditic state. Genesis is one of the most rigorous and relentless agents of the postwar Anglo-American vanguard, interrogating the meaning and substance of identity in a peerless half-century program of willful reincarnation and shape-shifting. Embracing the body as not simply the vessel but the site of the avant-garde impulse, BREYER P-ORRIDGE has reinvented and reintroduced h/erself again and again—as Fluxus pioneer, groundbreaking performance artist, inventor of industrial music, “wrecker of civilization,” essayist and theoretician, and, most recently, as pandrogyne.
www.genesisbreyerporridge.
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove, President of Hargrove Entertainment, Inc., proudly present Queer Film Summer Camp, a series devoted to queer films, or films viewed queerly. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on the nine consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture.
Suggested donation of $10
Drinks will be served at 7 PM
The introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE “S/HE IS HER/E” at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh SFAQ article
From http://www.sfaqonline.com/2013/06/genesis-breyer-p-orridge-she-is-here-at-the-andy-warhol-museum-pittsburgh/
I think it’s a good sign that art people can be made uncomfortable in the way Genesis Breyer P-Orridge makes them uncomfortable. S/he doesn’t fit into any category, which is exactly what s/he intends, making the process of h/er recent re-evaluation in art historical context particularly important to analyze. H/er retrospective “S/HE IS HER/E” mounted by the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh brings together 100 works from the mid 1970s to today; you look back through h/er current “pandrogyny” work, following the evolution of formal strategies (performance, the cut-up) and the expansion of a coherent symbolic vocabulary.
courtesy of the artist and INVISIBLE-EXPORTS
While Genesis is a cult icon in the music world, best know as the animating force behind the bands Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, h/er pioneering performances are rarely considered in the lineage of performance art, just as h/er visual art remains largely unexamined. One reason for this is that P-Orridge has done a lot of work to construct h/er own theoretical/philosophical context that is antithetical to the commercial art world and its discourses. H/er voluminous writings have recently been made available in the “Psychick Bible” where s/he discusses different ritual actions one can do to de-naturalize the structures of social and political power that invisibly govern our minds and bodies.
Courtesy of the artist and INVISIBLE-EXPORTS
One of these ritual acts of image-making is the “sigil”—a process of symbolic spell making with the intention of “making something happen.” That Breyer P-Orridge insists that its art’s job is to “make things happen” in the world, as a vital part of life, shows how far she is from the academic-careerism that dominates current discourse. A collection of sigils from the 80′s are shown, including one made at the request of h/er friend Derek Jarman who needed strength to finish a film as he was dying of AIDS.
courtesy of the artist and INVISIBLE-EXPORTS
Like any alchemist Breyer P-Orridge wants to regain the “order of intimacy” as Bataille put in in his “Theory of Religion” a state where all categorical divisions have been broken down. Kissing and sex rituals are then figured as a symbolic representations of this merger. In the kinetic sculpture “Tongue Kiss” two wolf heads with knife tongues face each other, one suspended upside-down circling the other. The knife tips pass a hair’s width apart—every so often hitting, making a little ringing sound. It is a beautiful little meditation on the structure of desire. The idea of the cut-up, taken from the artist’s friends Brion Gysin and William Burroughs, comes to its fullest incarnation in the Pandrogyne work where P-Orridge and h/er lover Lady Jaye Breyer “cut-up” their bodies to create a third being.
The most beautiful section of the exhibition is a gallery of Polaroids by Breyer P-Orridge and selection of previously unseen Warhol polaroids. In some ways glamour and outrageous social performance make Genesis-Warhol seem like an easy fit, although they are in fact completely opposites in intention and execution. Unlike Warhol, with his shell game of surrogates, it is actually always P-Orridge’s own body on the line, a body that believes in sex, violence, and spirituality and eschews all the vacant materialism of the Warhol-automaton. Genesis, with the greatest humor, addresses this conflict in the collage “Like Father, Like Son?” All children have to rebel against their parents.
courtesy of the artist and INVISIBLE-EXPORTS
The day before the opening Genesis gave a walk through just for the staff of the museum—almost all of them came, it was a mob. As we were leaving the opening through the back, one of the security guards stopped h/er and said “I want to tell you that what you said about your art was one of the best things I’ve ever heard. We’ve all been talking about it. I think this is the best thing I’ve ever seen at this museum.”
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-Contributed by Jarrett Earnest
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Genesis and White Stains perform in Nefertiti in Gothenburg on the 29th
Entry from Carl Abrahamsson's blog at http://carlabrahamsson.blogspot.se
With "At Stockholm" being one of my favorite Genesis projects ever ,this is quite exciting news!
Psychick gig bliss up a head!
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| Genesis P-Orridge, Gothenburg 1989. © Carl Abrahamsson |
It's never too late or too soon to look back and enjoy the past. Especially when it deals with future, as it does now. On June 29th, White Stains will resurface after a 20 year hiatus/hibernation. This in order to celebrate two specific projects: White Stains' 1990 album At Stockholm and Cotton Ferox' album Wordship (2004). Is there a common denominator? Of course. We made these albums together with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge – a living legend if there ever was one.
As we enter the stage at Nefertiti in Gothenburg on the 29th, Genesis will be with us. Not to make specific renditions or versions from our two albums, but rather to encourage and celebrate the atmosphere they contain. Very likely, we will surf on this wave of recurrence/resurgence to make a third album too. It would be stupid not to.
Late 1989, I organised a small spoken word tour for Genesis in Scandinavia. We had also already planned to record some of Gen's readings in a studio setting. As White Stains had just integrated sonic wizard Thomas Tibert, who had his own studio, everything moved on pleasant automatic. Gen read his poems perfectly – most of them were recorded on first takes – and when we later made the music for the poems it was like hand in glove on all levels. With textual material like that and a reading that smooth and professional, it's very hard not to make history.
Other adventures then intervened, as they usually do. But in 2002, it felt like it was high time again. As Genesis was coming over to do a lecture on his work at experimental music centre Fylkingen in Stockholm, Tibert and I prepared new music (then as Cotton Ferox) and it was bliss all over again. The result was released in 2004 in the form ofWordship. Some of these vocal recordings had also been used on Cotton Ferox' debut album First Time Hurts in 2002.
Someone as versatile as Genesis must surely have a hard time with projections from others. Is Genesis an (oc)cultural engineer, an industrial music pioneer, a collage artist, a philosopher, a magician etc? Well, of course, all of these and then some. But there is one all-permeating quintessence that is unmistakeable. Genesis is a poet. This is what fascinated me in the beginning of our friendship, and it still does. That's why it'll be an honour to share the stage with Gen and celebrate his/her poetry and the bizarre music that Tibert and I have concocted over the years. They go well together.
The performance will be neither "industrial" nor "electronica" nor "spoken word" but rather all of it in a colourful and quaquaversal mix created to make emotional jump cuts and possible existential mutations. It will be a grand old time spanning from ancient history to the distant future. I hope you'll be there together with us at Nefertiti in Gothenburg on June 29th, 2013, on this exciting adventure.
PS. You can buy all of the above albums at the iTunes Music Store. By buying the albums instead of illegally downloading them, you help us in the process of making and releasing new music. Thank you.
I should also mention that the concert is the public final event of a four day conference/symposium at the University of Gothenburg dealing with esotericism, occultism, alternative health movements and many other interesting things. Please consider taking part in this too!
"In the beginning there were White Stains." (Genesis 23:1)
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