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Alex Ovechkin написал(а) к All в May 01 00:44:06 по местному времени:

> альбом "all beauty is our enemy" эпохи coum transmissions (еще без
> Кристоферсона) издан на "Ars Nova"

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Coum Transmissions

COUM TRANSMISSIONS
... are, or were, a performance art group that featured
two of the founding members of Throbbing Gristle: Genesis
P Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti. unlike certain
performance artists - or at least, what most people
consider performance artists to be like (i.e. Laurie
Anderson), COUM were slightly different.
AXIS ARCНIVE of COUM TRANSMISSIONS

Genesis recalls:
used to do things like stick severed chicken's heads over my
penis, and then try to masturbate them, whilst pouring maggots all over
it..."

In Los Angeles, in 1976, at the Isntitute of Contemporary Arts
(LAICA), Cosey and I did a performance where I was naked, I drank a bottle
of whiskey and stood on a lot of tacks. And then i gave myself enemas
with blood, milk and urine, and then broke wind so a jet of blood milk and
urine combined shot across the floor in front of Chris Burden and assorted
visual artists. I then licked it off the floor, which was a not-clean
concrete floor.

Then I got a 10-inch nail and tried to swallow it, which made me
vomit. Then I licked the vomit off the floor and Cosey helped me lick the
vomit off the floor. And she was naked and trying to sever her vagina to
her navel with a razor blade-- well, she cut it from her vagina to her
navel with a razor blade, and she injected blood into her vagina which
then trickled out, and we sucked the blood from her vagina into a syringe
and injected it into eggs painted black, which we then tried to eat. And
we vomited again, which we then used for enemas.

Then I needed to urinate, so I urinated into a large glass bottle and
drank it all while it was still warm. (This was all improvised.) And then
we gradually crawled to each other, licking the floor clean.('cause we
don't like to leave a mess, y'know; after all, it's not fair to insult an
art gallery). Chris Burden, who's known for being outrageous, walked out
with his girlfriend, saying, "This is not art, this is the most disgusting
thing I've ever seen, and these people are sick."

In Amsterdam we did a performance in the red-light district. The
people in the theater asked, "What kind of lighting do you want?" and we
said, "Oh, just put on all the red lights." Then we played tapes of
Charles Manson's LP, Lie, cut-up with soundtracks of trains going through
thunderstorms, and we went through all all different kinds of fetishes.
Sleazy cut his throat and had to kind of do a tourniquet on his throat,
and Cosey and i did this thing of spitting at each other and then licking
all the spit off, and then licking each other's genitals, and then having
sexual intercourse while her hair was set on fire with candles. There was
an audience of around 2,000 people.

And each day it got heavier, so that on Easter Sunday I was crucufied
on a wooden cross, whipped with 2 bullwhips, covered in human vomit and
chicken wings and chicken legs, while I had to hold burning torches -
people in the audience could hear the skin burning on my hands. And then
i urinated down Cosey's legs while she stuck a lighted candle up her
vagina, so there were flames coming out of her vagina. Just ordinary
everyday ways of avoiding the commercials on the television....

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