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Genesis P-Orridge
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British artist, musician and writer (1950–2020)
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Genesis P-Orridge was an artist whose professional work period began in 1965 and concluded in 2009. The individual was born in 1950 and passed away in 2020. P-Orridge had two children.
The artist is associated with the publication titled "Artist | Vtape." This source is identified by the property code P973 and is noted as being grounded.
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Victoria Park, Manchester, England, UK
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson, 22 February 1950 – 14 March 2020) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, writer, and artist. P-Orridge's early confrontational performance work in COUM Transmissions in the late 1960s and early 1970s along with the industrial band Throbbing Gristle, which dealt with subjects such as prostitution, pornography, serial killers, occultism, and…
Known for
- A Body to Live In — Self (Archive Footage)2025
- S/He Is Still Her/e: The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary — Self2024
- Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: Write Your Own Code — Self2020
- Other, Like Me — Self2020
- Poems Are Living Things — Self2019
- Change Itself – An Art Apart: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge — Themself2016
- Bight of the Twin2016
- Geometría del esplendor — Self2016
- Industrial Soundtrack for the Urban Decay2015
- Sympathy for the Devil: The True Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment — Self2015
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Artist | Vtape
vtape.org →Genesis BREYER P-ORRIDGE was born in Manchester, England in 1950 - 2020 (March 14, NYC). S/he were a member of the Kinetic action group Exploding Galaxy/Transmedia Exploration from 1969-1970. S/he conceived of and founded the seminal British performance art group Coum Transmissions in 1969 and was the co-founder of Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, and the spoken word/ambient music performance group Thee Majesty. Throughout Genesis’ long career, s/he has worked and collaborated with William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Derek Jarman and Dr. Timothy Leary, among others. She explores human behavior, ritual, and personality modification through performances that create neo-shamanic collaged paintings called “Sigils”. Her most recent work documents the physical alterations s/he and her partner, the late Lady Jaye, endured within their project Pandrogeny, about re-union and re-solution of male and female to a perfecting hermaphroditic state. Her archives are part of the Tate’s permanent collection. S/he is represented by INVISIBLE-EXPORTS New York.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Andrew
- Gender
- non-binary
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of death
- Lower East Side
- Occupation
- performance artist
- Educated at
- University of Hull
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- electronic music
- Movement
- mail art
- Instrument
- violin
- Record label
- Wax Trax! Records
- Image
- Genesis P-Orridge holding up Universal Life Church certification (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Residence
- London
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- Commons category
- Genesis P-Orridge
- date of birth
- 1950-05-22
- social media followers
- 16659
- start of work period
- 1965-00-00
- date of death
- 2020-03-14
- cause of death
- leukemia
- end of work period
- 2009-00-00
- name in native language
- Genesis P-Orridge
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
- described at URL
- vtape.org/artist?ai=906
- manner of death
- natural causes
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