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Article: Essays; Who's Winning the Culture Wars?; Performance Art: The Mainstreaming Of the Marginal
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- The Washington Post
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- July 15, 1990
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Back in 1977, I joined the notorious, London-based duo Genesis
P. Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti in an impromptu performance. Banned
in England because of their show "Prostitution" at London's Institute
of Contemporary Art, they were touring the artists' spaces circuit in
the United States.
While ferrying them to an interview, I got a flat and flopped
up to a seedy gas station on Chicago's northwest side. After one
look at Tutti's tutu-length skirt and Orridge's long green
fingernails, Mongolian knot and powdered face, the attendant asked
for autographs, even mine.
Orridge languidly explained in thick Cockney that we were part
of the rock group Throbbing Gristle, and had gotten lost ...