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WedMusician, poet and artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is a legendary, transgressive counter-cultural icon and a pioneer of radical performance. S/he has been singular in h/er ability to “personify the communion of art and life” and unprecedented in h/er “prophetic groundwork in dissolving binaries – between physical and spiritual, sacred and profane, and even life and death” (Patrik Sandberg, Dazed).
In this artist talk, Genesis Breyer
will appear together with filmmaker Hazel Hill McCarthy III, with whom s/he made "Bight of the Twin," a film following what became an emotional search in Benin for Lady Jaye Breyer, P-Orridge’s deceased life partner. Together Breyer and P-Orridge had undertaken a decades-long project of pandrogyny.Musician, poet and artist Genesis P-Orridge is a legendary, transgressive counter-cultural icon and a pioneer of radical performance. S/he has been singular in h/er ability to “personify the communion of art and life” and unprecedented in h/er “prophetic groundwork in dissolving binaries – between physical and spiritual, sacred and profane, and even life and death” (Patrik Sandberg, Dazed).
Hazel Hill McCarthy III is a Los Angeles-based artist, designer and filmmaker and is a co-founder of the project space SHOW CAVE. Her short films have been screened at the Warhol Museum, the Barbican and the Institute of Contemporary Art in London (ICA).