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)
• Terribull Twin Actions, FLUXshoe, Blackburn Museum, UK. (July 19).(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)
• Everything is Nothing, El Festival, Stepney, London, UK. (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
• 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)
• 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 Ca, 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)
• Happy Daze Number 3, Alien Brain, S.P.A.C.E. , London. UK. (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

Bibliography

Il corpo postorganico-sconfinamenti della performance di Teresa Macrì, 1996, Costa & Nolan, Genova-Milano