Performances and actions, photography, multi-media installation, music and text – there is an impressive diversity in the artistic techniques and methods with which Genesis P-orridge has sought to bring art closer to life over the last thirty years. The artist, who lives in New York, attacks the establishment, petit-bourgeois mentality and social immobility using methods that include radical performances and pioneering achievements in the field of industrial music. And when the “cultural engineer” P-orridge constructs sculptures from used tampons at the ICA London, his flustered audience is in a state of turmoil.
One year after the first large exhibition on the entire artistic oeuvre of Genesis P-orridge in London, Künstlerhaus Bethanien is especially pleased to be able to give an insight into the comprehensive creative work of this almost legendary artist with “Painful But Fabulous” in Berlin.
A particular highlight of the evening on 3rd June will be Harald Fricke’s presentation of one of the exhibition’s special features; the motto is “Disco-Wreckage – acoustic travel through industrial landscapes, 1976-2004”.
