Look at Genesis P-Orridge’s Penis Gun and Curse Casting Wand
March 27, 2013 | Marina Galperina
“Are you having trouble understanding artists through their art? Understand them through their STUFF instead.”
Art F City has an amazing fresh feature STUFF and this week, transgressive legend Genesis P-Orridgeshowed them STUFF. It includes a Bronze Lord Shiva, a Tibetan Thighbone Trumpet, a DREAMACHINE, loving memorabilia of Genesis’s beloved “Other Half” Lady Jaye and this amazing Penis Gun/Curse Casting Wand that Genesis P-Orridge aquired at a Buddhist talisman market in Bangkok with Lady Jaye in 2002.
…The handle/grip is a mock up of standard grips but is hollow and could possibly hold a real clip of ammunition. There’s no trigger. There are very faint engravings of the same Thai script gangsters, among other Thai groups, receive from priests at certain Monasteries. It seems a very serious magical object, possibly a “wand” to point at, fire a curse at..an enemy.
Artist and integral Throbbing Gristle member Genesis Breyer P-Orridge's first solo, major museum exhibition is currently on view at the Warhol Museum. Chronicling H/er four-decade-long career, the show features over 100 works, dating back to the mid-70s to the present day. Much of the exhibition is centered around P-Orridge's ongoing Pandrogyne Project in which the artist became increasingly concerned…
In "The Pandrogyne," an amazing episode of Love + Radio produced by Nick van der Kolk and Brendan Baker (who also did the beautiful sound design), industrial music founder Genesis Breyer P-Orridge talks about Brion Gysin and the cut-up technique's influence on language, industrial music and h/er own body, among other things. Like love.…
ANIMAL stopped by the reception for "Brooklyn Photo Show," with work by 15 Brooklyn-based photographers spanning 13 years. Ok, I stopped by the show and it was damn solid and I'll spare you the art speak this time. Beautiful graffiti. Genesis P-Orridge. Rooftop mornings. Jesus dragging a cross through the streets. Neatly packaged…
