Other Like Me

Hull England 1970 In a rundown commune in a tough port city a group of social misfits mostly working class mostly selfeducated adopted new identities and began making simple street theater under the name COUM Transmissions Their playful performances gradually gave way to work that dealt openly with sex pornography and violence COUM lived on the edges of society surviving on meager resources finding fellowship with others marginalized by the mainstream At the core of the group were two artists Genesis POrridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti As their work evolved Cosey embarked on a career modeling for pornographic magazines which she claimed for herself as a conceptual artwork using it to forge a specific position in relationship to 1970s feminism In performances Genesis pushed himself to extremes testing the limits of the human body