COUM Transmissions

Gruppo di performance art che viene formato nel 1969 da Genesis P.-Orridge e Cosey Fanni Tutti. Le loro azioni sono caratterizzate da una forte componente autolesionista che funge spesso da detonatore per una guerriglia psicologica, sfociando nella trasgressione delle regole sociali e nella contestazione nei confronti del puritanesimo stratificato.

Performance e Azioni

• 'Thee Fabulous Mutations', St Peters,Anlaby, Hull, UK. (1969)
• 'Clockwork Hot Spoiled Acid Test', Hull University Union, UK.(1969)
• '99 United Sacks', Alberts Jazz Club, Hull, UK. (1970)
• 'Broken Equipment', Hull University, UK. (1970)
• 'Disintegration of Fact',Granny's Parlour, Hull, UK. (1971)
• 'Riot Control', Gondola Club, Hull, UK. (1971)
• 'Absolute Elsewhere', Streets of Hull, UK. (1971)
• 'Fairyland Powder Puffs', Brickhouse, Hull, UK. (1971)
• 'Caves of Montalbaan', Hull Arts Centre, UK. (1971)
• 'Skin Complaints', Streets of Hull, UK. (1971)
• 'Edna & The Great Surfers', St.Georges Hall Bradford, UK. (1971)
• 'Coum Orgee Number 1', Alien Brain, Hull, UK. (1971)
• 'Exorcism of Shit', Afro Club, Bradford, UK. (1971)
• 'I'm a Robot', Alien Brain, Hull, UK. (1971)
• 'Christ Whitemas', Streets of Hull, UK. (1971)
• 'Infra Red Bucket', Hull Arts centre, UK. (1972)
• 'This Machine Kills Music', New Grange Club, Hull, UK. (1972)
• 'Kissing', Alien Brain, Hull, UK. (1972)
• 'Copyright Breeches', University of Kent, UK. (1972)
• ‘Prison Sell’, COUM on the streets of Hull for RAP (Prisoners Rights Group). (1972)
• 'Dead Pedestrians', Canterbury Streets, UK. (1972)
• 'Miss Teen Princess'. Streets of Hull, UK. (1972)
• 'Festival of Night', Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, UK. (1972)
• 'Anal Coumfidence', Streets of London, UK. (1972)
• 'Bullnecks', Holy Trinity Church, Hull, UK. (1972)
• 'Wagon Train', Hull Streets/ Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, UK. (1972)
• 'Coum to the Rescue'. Streets of Hull, UK. (1972)
• 'Thee Alien Brain & Mass Panic', Hull Arts Centre, UK. (1972)
• 'Spartacus Defused', Bradford Arts Festival, UK. (1972)
• 'Melissa Pouts', Streets of Hull, UK. (1972)
• 'Welcoum Home Tim', Alien Brain, Hull, UK. (1972)
• 'Drakularse Tower', Beverley West Wood, UK. (1972)
• 'Thee Business', Streets of Hull, UK. (1972)
• ‘Yorkshire Artists’ Collection’, Fanfare for Europe, Hull Arts Centre. Group show. (Jan 2). (1973)
• 'Ministry of Antisocial Insecurity', Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, UK. (Jan 6).(1973)
• 'Winston Spencer Churchill', (part of Fanfare for Europe) Hull Arts Centre, UK(1973)
• 'Glass with Care', Streets of Hull, UK(1973)
• 'Colliche Pastage', De Lantaren, Rotterdam, HOLLAND (Jan 9)(1973)
• 'Baby of Europe', Lijnbaan, Rotterdam, HOLLAND (Jan 10).(1973)
• 'Copy Dementarla', Open Theatre Festival, Louvain, BELGIUM(1973)
• 'Babys Coumpetition', O.S.A.C. Oxford University UK.(1973)
• 'Infantile Launchpad', Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, UK. (Feb 2).(1973)
• 'Ministry & Colliche', Swansea University Festival. UK. (Feb 19)(1973)
• 'Thee Biggles Saga', Bretton Hall College, Wakefield, UK. (Apr)(1973)
• The Revolutionary Spirit, COUM with KIPPER KIDS at Louvain University, Belgium.(1973)
• 'Thee Marriage of Fizzy Paet', Manchester Art Festival. UK. (May 17).(1973)
• 'Decoumpositions', FLUXshoe, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham UK. (Jun 14)(1973)
• 'Landscape Painting & Actions', Reading University, UK.(1973)
• 'Stick Em Up', Surrey University, UK.(1973)
• 'Kingston-coum-Hull', Hull Arts Centre, UK.(1973)
• 'Landscape Painting', Bull Ring Birmingham, UK.(1973)
• 'Weight and Smell', S.P.A.C.E. Party, London. UK.(1973)
• Magaziine action - Premier Studios, Whitechapel Road, London, UK. ( July 9 - July 14).(1973)
• 'Terribull Twin Actions', FLUXshoe, Blackburn Museum, UK. (July 19).(1973)
• Magazine action - 3 girl lesbian photo shoot, London, UK (July 23).(1973)
• Magazinie action - Photo shoot, London, UK. (Aug 11)(1973)
• Magazinie action - Photo shoot, London, UK. (Aug 14)(1973)
• 'Landscape Painting & Actions', FLUXshoe, Victor Musgrave Gallery, Hastings, UK. (Aug 21 (1973)
• 'Wundatrek Tours', Touring Sussex, UK.(1973)
• 'Framed', Portabello Rd, London, UK.(1973)
• 'Cosey Fanni Tutti's Blue Mover', Art Exchange, Reading University, UK(1973)
• 'Happy Daze Number 1', Alien Brain.S.P.A.C.E. London.(1973)
• 'Thee Lump E Found on the Pavement', London University Union, UK.(1973)
• 'Parties Overt', Oval House Theatre, London, UK(1973)
• ‘Flag Show’, Midland Group Galleries, Nottingham. Group show. (1973)
• 'Bullneck Revived', Northallerton Prison, UK (1973)
• Magazine action - sign up to Ragdolls Model Agency. (1973)
• 'Everything is Nothing', El Festival, Stepney, London, UK. (1973)
• Magazine action - with nanny Rigby, London, UK. (Aug 23). (1973)
• Magazine action - test shots, London, UK. (Aug 25). (1973)
• Magazine action auditions for ALPHA, Pussy Cat, and Bill Carter, London, UK. (Sept 10). (1973)
• Magazine action - photo shoot for Bill Carter, London, UK. (Sept 27). (1973)
• Magazine action - photo shoot for Piren Murphy, London, UK. (Sept 29). (1973)
• Magazine action - London Transport News No.14, London, UK. (Oct 19). (1973)
• 'Marcel Duchamps Next Work', Stedelijk Academy, Gent, BELGIUM. (1974)
• 'Marcel Duchamps Next Work', Palais Des Beaux Arts, Brussels, BELGIUM. (1974)
• 'Spaghetti Junction', Thee Glass Menagerie, London.UK.(1974)
• 'Miners Catastrophe', Roundhouse, London, UK. (1974)
• 'Couming of Age', Oval House, London, UK. | LINK | (1974)
• 'Alien Porno Rock', HOWFF Club, London, UK. (1974)
• 'Prostitution', Curious Magazine Action, London, UK. (1974)
• 'Lesbian Simulation' Magazine Action, Finsbury Park, London, UK. (1974)
• 'Cosey Action Nude Spread', Alpha Magazine Action, London. UK. (1974)
• 'Cosey Sexual Action', Premier Camera Club, London, UK. (1974)
• 'Shaving Pubic Hair Action', Health & Efficiency Magazine Action. (1974)
• 'Cosey Shaving Pussy Action', QUI Magazine Action, London. UK. (1974)
• 'Dead Babies, Wet Babies', Hat Fair, London. UK. (1974)
• 'Orange & Blue', Art Meeting Place, London, UK. (1974)
• 'Gainsboroughs Blue Movie Boy', Art Meeting Place, London. UK. (1974)
• '4 Hours Music Action', Art Meeting Place, London. UK. (1974)
• 'Signals', Art Meeting Place, London, UK. (1974)
• 'Orange & Blue', Mansoni Gardens, Birmingham, UK. (1974)
• 'Music Action', Film-makers Co-op, London, UK. (1974)
• 'Airborne Spells, Landborn Smells', Brook Green, London. UK. (1974)
• ‘Rasputin’ Covent Garden Hat fair, London, UK. (1974)
• 'Schlimn', Stadtfest, Rottweil, GERMANY (1974)
• 'All that Glitters is not Kunst', Stadtfest, Rottweil, GERMANY (1974)
• 'Music for Stocking Top, Swing and Staircase', Gulbenkian Hall, Royal College of Art, London
• 'Stocking Top and Swing ' 16mm film by Coum. (1974)
• 'Opportunity Knocks', International Art Centre, Newington Butts, London. Tutti, Orridge, Tom Puckey. (1974)
• 'Birth of Liquid Desires', Goldsmiths College, London, UK. (1974)
• 'Happy Daze Number 2', Alien Brain, S.P.A.C.E., London. (1974)
• 'Time Transfixed', Academy of Art, Liverpool, UK.(1974)
• ‘Filth’, Art Meeting Place, London. Part of a party organised by COUM. (1974)
• 'Coum Music', Oval House, London, UK (1974)
• 'Universal Man', Victoria & Albert Museum, London. (1974)
• 'Marcel Duchamps Next Work', Battersea Town Hall, London. UK. (1974)
• 'Ommissions', New Reform Gallery, Aalst, BELGIUM ' (1975)
• 'Ommissions', K.K. Centrum, Antwerp, BELGIUM. (1975)
• 'Jusqu'a la Balle Crystal', Stedelijk Academy, Gent, BELGIUM. (1975)
• 'Omissions ' 16mm film by Coum. (1975)
• 'Couming of Youth', Melkweg, Amsterdam, HOLLAND (1975)
• 'Ommissions', Europa-Tage, Gross Gerau, GERMANY (1975)
• 'A Discourse on thee Demise of British Performance Art Today', Oval House, London.UK. (1975)
• ‘Bollocks In Thee Breeze’, Art Meeting Place, London. (1975)
• 'Filing Clerk Routine' Magazine Action, Islington, London, UK (1975)
• 'Coumdensation Mucus', Royal College of Art, London, UK (1975)
• 'Cosey Lesbian Action in Car', Epping Forest, Epping, UK (1975)
• 'Ommissions', Kulturamt, Kiel, GERMANY (1975)
• 'Jusqu'a la Balle Crystal Actions', 9th Biennale, Paris, FRANCE (1975)
• 'Sex Une Bonne Idée', Nuffield Gallery, Southampton, UK | LINK | (1975)
• 'Whip it Out, Wrap It Up....', Hat Fair, Winchester, UK (1975)
• 'Crowley Action', Alien Brain, S.P.A.C.E, London, UK (1975)
• 'Cosey Lesbian Action', New Direction Magazine Action, London, UK (1975)
• 'Pussy Galore', Magazine Action, London, UK (1975)
• 'Pleasure', Magazine Action, Bagshot, UK (1975)
• 'CUSTER'S THIRTEEN', 'erotic' 35mm feature film, Twickenham Studios, UK (1975)
• 'CAN YOU KEEP IT UP ALL NIGHT?', 'erotic' 35mm feature film, Twickenham Studios, UK. (1975)
• 'TEENAGE SIN' erotic 8mm fim, London. UK | LINK | (1975)
• 'Happy Daze Number 3', Alien Brain, S.P.A.C.E. , London. UK. (1975)
• ‘SEX ANGLE’ 8mm erotic film, Directed by John Lindsay, London, UK. | LINK | (1975)

Filmografy

• STOCKING TOP AND SWING' (16mm, colour). 1974
• OMISSIONS ' (16mm, colour). 1975
• CEASE TO EXIST No1' (16mm b&w). 1975
• COUMDENSATION MUCUS' (16mm, colour). 1975
• RECTUM AS INNER SPACE' (16mm, colour). 1976
• AFTER CEASE TO EXIST' (16mm, b&w). 1977