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	COUM Transmissions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		COUM Transmissions was a performance art group interested in pushing boundaries, influenced by Dada and the Merry Pranksters.
		Though she feels the name COUM to be "tainted" now and unusable, she has been known to say her individual projects are still a part of the COUM family of work.
		A definitive documentary work on COUM Transmissions is the book Wreckers of Civilisation, by Simon Ford, curator of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/COUM_Transmissions (324 words)

	Genesis P-Orridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His early confrontational performance work with COUM Transmissions in the late 1960s - early 1970s along with the original Industrial band Throbbing Gristle, which dealt with subjects such as prostitution, pornography, serial killers and occultism, generated controversy.
		COUM Transmissions, which began as a band in the Captain Beefheart tradition but was also concerned with improvisation and Genesis' trance-inducing African-style drumming, came into being, comparable to a native Northern English Sun Ra.
		The sexy, the taboo, the ghastly, the ghostly, and the goulish were all explored with equal parts mischief, ritual, discipline, and excitement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Genesis_P-Orridge (4008 words)

	COUM Transmissions -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		COUM Transmissions was a (An organized group of workmen) gang interested in pushing boundaries, influenced by (A nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty) Dada and the (additional info and facts about Merry Pranksters) Merry Pranksters.
		It had a rotating membership, not atypical of the (The decade from 1960 to 1969) 1960s, and included both (A person who uses the mind creatively) intellectual and (Someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime) criminal elements and existed formally from 1969 until 1976.
		A definitive documentary work on COUM Transmissions is the book Wreckers of Civilisation, by Simon Ford, curator of the (additional info and facts about Victoria and Albert Museum) Victoria and Albert Museum, (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/coum_transmissions3.htm (428 words)

	Coum Flakes at Start Contemporary Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Coum Flakes is a group of artists presented by Apparition.
		Coum Transmissions were the influential multi media performance art group from which cult band "Throbbing Gristle" emerged.
		Foxtrot Echo was a leading light of Coum and he has now gathered together 3 original members of Coum and 3 new recruits under the name of Coum Flakes.
	www.startgallery.co.uk /ExhibitionPages/Coum_Flakes.html (135 words)

	Coum Transmission / Annhilating Reality
		Coum is therefore both a serious and tragic emotional stimulus combining the fruit of experience to create precious, yet expendable, moments in time.
		COUM is a mirror of all it coums across and all who coum across it, in any of its forms.
		COUM model for LP cover, it becomes a scandal in America, is resting in living rooms and flats, no one knows it was them.
	www.sterneck.net /cybertribe/ritual/coum-transmission/index.php (3944 words)

	Article 0065
		Let's not forget that T. were born as a continuation of Coum Transmissions, a performance group that functioned between 1969 and 1975, with Genesis and Cosey (also in their last year with Sleazy).
		With Coum Transmissions he signed one of the most peculiar pages of his artist discipline (recognised even in the "Performance Art" by Roselee Goldberg, recently published in Spanish by Editorial Destino).
		There came to be a moment when Coum Transmissions though they could widen their means of expression, so as to leave the circuit of the art galleries, and that it was (also) possible to work with music (and all that could involve it).
	www.amazings.com /articles/article0065.html (1304 words)

	ambient articles at musiq.com
		This section will focus on the lives of several prominent industrial artists, several of whom went on to be founders of the ambient music scene, and show which philosophical tenets of the industrial movement were transferred to the ambient movement, and which were not.
		As early as 1969, the group Coum Transmissions were performing their sonic experiments in British art schools.
		By 1976, Throbbing Gristle had emerged as the band-structured incarnation of Coum Transmissions, and the performances had expanded from the guitar noise and percussion experiments of the early 1970s into a highly provocative performance art group that would routinely cause physical harm to the musicians -- and the audience.
	www.musiq.com /ambient/articles/bates2.htm (639 words)

	HARD LISTENING FOR THE EASE IN HEARING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This show was to mark the end of COUM Transmissions as an active part within the Art Establishment and the emergence of Throbbing Gristle into the Music Establishment.
		COUM Transmissions had for years invented, designed, abandoned various cynical comments upon bureaucracy and information collation, trying to exorcise the power of social monoliths and institutions.
		The soundtrack to the film COUM Transmissions called "After Cease To Exist" (an oblique reference to a Charles Manson song "Cease To Exist") was improvised live by Throbbing Gristle directly onto tape.
	userpages.umbc.edu /~vijay/TG/texts/text2.html (1733 words)

	COUM Transmissions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		COUM try to examine basic premises in theatre, music and art with both a sophisticated and niave approach, thereby creating and exploring new structures, whilst being aware of their historical context.
		Even if you do not agree at all with COUM propositions and ideas, it is still a valuable experience to meet, work with, for instance in a weeklong workshop, with a differnt method of approach so that ones own ideas and real ambitions can be clarified.
		COUM are happy to COUM and work with you, for you and discuss their work.
	www.brainwashed.com /axis/coum/intro.htm (641 words)

	Cosey Fanni Tutti - Time To Tell
		Coum Transmissions, the arts group of which she was a member, were truly adept at provoking shock and outrage.
		The booklet includes a full list of Coum Transmissions "actions" including such notables as "G.P.O. vs G.P-O", which was held in Highbury Magistrates Court and was doubtless a court case provoked by her Coum cohort Genesis P. Orridge's mail art.
		Coum Transmissions gave birth (probably publicly and messily) to Throbbing Gristle who proceeded to apply much the same approach to music.
	www.awrc.com /review/c/time_to_tell.html (769 words)

	black dog publishing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wreckers of Civilisation tells the story of two interconnected groups: the performance art group COUM Transmissions and the music group, Throbbing Gristle.
		COUM shocked art audiences with their public nudity and often masochistic art actions.
		Wreckers of Civilisation is the first and only book to document the work of both groups, placing it in the context of 70s notions of avant-gardism and permissiveness.
	www.bdpworld.com /books/list/art/wreck/wreck.html (114 words)

	Amazon.com: Wreckers of Civilisation: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Performance artists Coum Transmissions and the music group Throbbing Gristle are subjects of the first major book by critic and art historian Simon Ford.
		Paving the way for the onslaught of the punk movement, Coum and TG extended the boundaries of both art and music, where the profane was provocative and private acts became public display.
		For me, the COUM Transmissions part was the most interesting 'cos the least documented - even so it would have been interesting to hear from other COUM participants such as Fizzy Paet and Foxtrot Echo, also to find out what these people are doing now.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1901033600?v=glance (1699 words)

	Throbbing Gristle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Evolving out of the Hull-based COUM Transmissions performance troup, Throbbing Gristle was formed in London in September 1975 by Genesis P-Orridge (b.
		COUM's Prostitution exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts briefly shot P-Orridge and Tutti into the limelight, with a media outcry over the use of pornographic shots of the latter.
		Although Throbbing Gristle were formed as the musical arm of COUM, they were essentially a performance art ensemble whose work often bordered on the obscene.
	musicstore.mymmode.com /artist.do?artistID=115663 (444 words)

	Genesis P-Orridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It shouldn't be forgotten that there is a COUM film that features a ritualized castration of Carter.
		He'd become familiar with COUM during an event in Los Angeles in 1972, and through the international community of mail artists.
		He was living in a squat in London, in the East End with Gen. It was in those circumstances that the concept of "industrial music" was born.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/G/Genesis-P-Orridge.htm (4413 words)

	Wreckers of Civilisation (Simon Ford) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The unorthodox use of synths, Â«industrialÂ» noise and cut-ups are now commonplace, while in the 70's it could cause riots when presented to an audience most used to the popular music of the time.
		The COUM group's extreme use of bodily fluids and food in performance could be viewed as a continuation of the ground-breaking work of people like Hermann Nitsch and Otto Mühl.
		Coum did some far out stuff, but were in my opinion not as much pioneers in their field as TG was.
	www.interference.com /webstore/us/product/1901033600.htm (737 words)

	Philippe Pissier on ze Oueb - Genesis P-ORRIDGE
		The fact that Coum Transmissions consistently carried out this"threat", instead of merely emptily posturing to suit the currentmode of vacuous credibility, like most of my unseemly contemporaries,was both a discriminating conceit, and a conscious but elegantfriction, within and without the established critical mores of thatparticular epoch.
		COUM might think aparticular image created was unique and intensely graphic later todiscover it had been ignored or overlooked by the passers-by thathappened ta take photographs.
		As in many COUM actions this "shadow female" is alwayspresent as an equal and coumplimentary aspect ov thee transmediator.Coumtimes my SELF would literally slip back and forth between bothpersona's using costume and body language as signals ov thishermaphroditic process.
	www.paganguild.org /pissier/divers/porridge.htm (1172 words)

	Pulse Field playlist
		COUM TRANSMISSIONS during the Summer of 1969 in Shrewsbury, England.
		COUM was destined to be at the forefront of radical body-art actions and exhibitions throughout Europe during the early 1970's by which time Cosey Fanni Tutti had become an active element.
		COUM and a new individual with technological genius Chris Carter all participated obsessively in this new cultural venture.
	cara.gsu.edu /pulsefield/playlist/PTV.htm (1102 words)

	Tate Archive Journeys \| Reise \| Art Movements, Artist's Biographies
		COUM Transmissions (COUM for short) were a radical performance group comprising Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti.
		COUM's work was shocking and often explicit which, combined with Cosey Fanny Tutti's interest in pornography (she was herself a model), provoked outrage from the right-wing media.
		In 1975 COUM were taken to court by the Post Office, when postcards featuring nudes in provocative positions were posted to various people by P-Orridge.
	www.tate.org.uk /archivejourneys/reisehtml/mov_artbiogs.htm (3678 words)

	Genesis P-Orridge biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		With radical performance group COUM Transmissions, Genesis P-Orridge became one of the UK's foremost artists in the 1970s.
		With fellow COUM performer, Cosey Fanny Tutti, Genesis P-Orridge was a pioneer of mail art, which brought him into conflict with the law: William Burroughs gave a statement for him when the Post Office put him in the dock.
		COUM's work was shocking, explicit, and medically dangerous which, combined with Cosey Fanny Tutti's interest in pornography (she was herself a model) provoked outrage from the right-wing media.
	www.codexbooks.co.uk /gporr.html (259 words)

	Wreckers of Civilisation: The Story of Coum Transmissions and "Throbbing Gristle" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is an excellent account of where music meets art, rather than Manahlos and Red Tags, the story of a bunch of worried, art-conscious drifters from Hull who sought expressionism in music.
		The book's only weakness is that the story of COUM is so well told that you're left wanting more on the Fortress years of TG and the moment the wheels came off the P-Orridge cart.
		An entertaining discourse on contemporary art history & "underground" music which pushes back the boundaries of critique, biography and reportage in much the same way as Coum & TG challenged the borders of taste, respectability and technical & musical possibility.
	www.armchairfans.co.uk /books/1901033600 (222 words)

	Cosey Fanni Tutti biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Before both of these she was a performer with COUM Transmissions, in 1969 with Genesis P-Orridge, who was her constant companion of many years.
		Her addition likely changed the nature of this odd and whimsical group which, when she joined, was still mostly a musical venture.
		From that point on, COUM performances became events or, in sixties parlance, happenings, involving props, costumes, movements, improvisation and aspects of street theater, something that she'd already been involved in with GP-O when they were living in a commune.
	cosey-fanni-tutti.biography.ms (282 words)

	Genesis P-Orridge - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		That year, he formed the abrasive improv outfit COUM Transmissions with then-partner Cosey Fanni Tutti.
		Eventually acquiring grant money, COUM established a communal live-work space in Hull before moving to London after two members were arrested.
		In October of 1976, with a new lineup that included designer Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson and Chris Carter, COUM assembled Pornography, an exhibit at London's Institute of Contemporary Art.
	store.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,434993,00.html (778 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chris Carter was born in the City of London Maternity Hospital, Islington, London on 28 January 1953.
		John Lacey often met P-Orridge and Tutti at the studios and had performed with COUM using the pseudonym John Gunni Busck.
		And so it was, during the summer of 1975, that the COUM story became complicated by, and intertwined with, the TG story.
	www.chrisandcosey.com /press/chricarter-biog2000.txt (1031 words)

	Thee Majesty - Nov.23, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		COUM tended to vanish, entirely, after their performances were over, existing only in a handful of photographs and the increasingly apocryphal memories of their audience.
		Reading Simon Ford’s sumptuous Wreckers of Civilization I had been tantalized by the descriptions of COUM’s actions, but had resigned myself to never being able to actually see one.
		In a moment almost as rare as the COUM videos themselves, Genesis had acquiesced to doing a short QandA session.
	www.scotttreleaven.com /infamy/clever/majesty.html (2126 words)

	SFBG S.F. Life \| August 25, 1999 \| Lit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The English are all a bunch of fucking perverts, and any American child who truly wishes to offend his or her parents like the British do needs to observe the life and times of that most famous Anglo perv since Aleister Crowley – namely, Genesis P-Orridge.
		He formed COUM transmissions, a sort of anti-art art group, and proceeded to turn his every activity into a derisive sneer at the British class system, Christianity, beauty, sex, and, ultimately, sense itself.
		And Simon Ford, P-Orridge's Boswell, chronicles P-Orridge, COUM, and TG in such loving detail that one can hardly imagine that anyone, even some inbred English Tory idiot, could ever have thought that they were a threat to civilization, or to anything else for that matter.
	www.sfbg.com /lit/august99/reviews/gristle.html (736 words)

	ollapodrida: Cosey Fanni Tutti upcoming Holland exhibit
		A new exhibition by Cosey Fanni Tutti will be at the VAN ABBE MUSEUM library, Eindhoven, Holland from 7th May to 21st August.
		Cosey Fanni Tutti (Hull, 1951) became known for her participation in performances by COUM Transmissions and the British electronic avant garde band Throbbing Gristle.
		Since 1973 she has also carried out her own individual activities, like exploring female nudity within the context of pornographic magazines and films, the model world and striptease.
	ollapodrida.net /blog/2005/04/cosey-fanni-tutti-upcoming-holland.php (219 words)

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