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Coum Transmissions

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Country: United Kingdom
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COUM Transmissions were a music and performance art collective who operated in the United Kingdom from 1969 through to 1976. Influenced by the Dada artistic movement, COUM were openly confrontational and subversive, challenging aspects of conventional British society. Founded in Hull, Yorkshire by Genesis P-Orridge, other prominent early members included Cosey Fanni Tutti and Spydeee Gasmantell (also at school with Genesis P-Orridge). Part-time member included Menzies, Haydn Robb, Les Maull (aka The Reverend Lelli), Ray Harvey and Fizzy Paet. Later members included Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson and Chris Carter, who together with P-Orridge and Fanni Tutti went on to found the pioneering industrial band Throbbing Gristle in 1976.  It had a rotating membership, and included both intellectual and criminal elements and existed formally from 1969 until 1976. In that year, Genesis & Cosey exhibited at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts in a show called Prostitution, which consisted of explicit photographs of lesbians, assemblages of rusty knives, syringes, bloodied hair, used sanitary towels, press clippings and photo documentation of COUM performances in Milan and Paris. There was a lot of outrage expressed by London newspapers and UK politicians, including Tory MP Nicholas Fairbairn, who referred to COUM as the "wreckers of Western civilization". However, memberships to the ICA increased sharply as a result of the COUM show.[1]  The last official COUM performances and art shows took place in 1976. At or around that time, Genesis proclaimed s/he was through with performance art. Cosey, on the other hand, felt she had only just begun. Though she feels the name COUM to be "tainted" now and unusable, she has been known to say her individual projects are still a part of the COUM family of work[citation needed]. In fact for a while she had a website called Coum.
 
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Coum Transmissions Couming of Age   1974 Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions Scenes of Victory 1973-77 Invitation-flyer for Vernissage at Atelier Milchstrasse, Freiburg   1978 Mag/Lit Print DE 2
Coum Transmissions Fab and Kinky   1975 Poster Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions Coum Transmissions   1975 Poster Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions Photots of Actions 1973-76 for Galeria Akumulatory 2   1976 Poster Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions 'Scenes of Victory' Antwerpen 1978    Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions 1001 Ways to Coum " 1971 Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions The MF Chronicle   1972 Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions Flyer to 'Prostitution' Exhibition-Concert at ICA 1976   1976 Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions Coum Transmissions 'Scenes of Victory' 5-5-1978 Antwerpen    Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions Leaflet Spiellinie Kiellinie, 21 ? 29 Juni 1975, with COUM listing. Single sheet folded to make 8 pages 21 x 10.5 cm.    1975 picture Print DE 2
Coum Transmissions Selected Writings (compiled and scanned by Simon Dell)    Mag/Lit Print GB 39
Coum Transmissions Add in New Musical Express 1974   1974 Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions Jusque a la balle Crystal Poster 18 Feb. 1975    Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions Coum Transmissions Postcard    Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions Prostitution Poster IVA 1976    Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions REMEMBER ?EDNA AND THEE GREAT SURFERS? Extra Long Tail Postcard "REMEMBER ?EDNA AND THEE GREAT SURFERS?. Copyright 1974 COUM TRANSMISSIONS PASTCORDS. Signed on front by Genesis P-Orridge. 139 x 89 mm. [Wreckers 12.4]     "  1974 Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions Postcard   1975 Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions Jusque a La Balle Crystal 18 Feb. 1975 Poster    Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions Info-Sheets to fLuxshoe Event 1973 (Hastings)    Mag/Lit Print GB 4
Coum Transmissions Coum Transmissions Post Card as part of the Image Bank Post Card Show Box-Set Image  Bank Post Card Show was published in 1977.  1977 Postcards Print CA 9
Coum Transmissions Invitation Card to Prostiution Show    Mag/Lit Print GB 3
Coum Transmissions selected press to the Prositition event    Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions Letter by Daily Mirror to Ted Little (ICA coordinator and responsible for the Prostition Sho of Coum Transmissions    Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions Flyer to Show    Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions Prostituion Info Sheet   1976 Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions ?COUM are KINKY!!? Poster "?COUM are KINKY!!? Printed green ink on paper, 1970. Handprinted COUM poster. 1970 Poster Print GB 4
Coum Transmissions Stickers: 'COUM YOUR LOCAL DIRTY BANNED' and COUM 'Guarantee Disappointment'   1970 picture Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions COUM publicity card  with two photographs of Cosey Fanni Tutti during performance with scissors and metal chain, ca. 1975. Walkerprints. Inscribed in ink on verso ?Cosey Fanni Tutti?. 15 x 21 cm.  1975 Postcards Print GB 3
Coum Transmissions A4 Sheet 'everything about coum is true' "everything about coum is true, everything about coum is false, everything about coum is nothing, it is by omission that we might be exact?, A4 flyer with collage including Cosey Fanni Tutti,"1975 Poster Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions COUM publicity card showing Aalst arrows and mirror sculpture. 1975.  showing Aalst arrows and mirror sculpture. 1975.  1975 Mag/Lit Print GB 2
Coum Transmissions COUM publicity card  with two photographs of Cosey Fanni Tutti during performance with box of twigs and stretched string, ca. 1975. Walkerprints.  1975 Postcards Print GB 2
Coum Transmissions Colour photograph probably a mid-1990s reprint. ? Genesis being handed the summons for Queen postcards, ending in the trial?, inscribed by GP-O on verso. 15 x 10 cm   Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions ?E HATE COUM? publicity card, "?E HATE COUM? publicity card, 1974. Signed ?OLD Gen? on verso, pencil mark up notes by Wreckers book designer Paul Khera. Walkerprints. 208 x 145 mm. [Wreckers 4.16]  "  1974 Postcards Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions Cosey publicity card ca. 1976, 209 x 148 mm. [Wreckers 6.25] with Alma Cogan stamps and publicity card, both inscribed and signed by GP-O explaining the connections.    Mag/Lit Print GB 3
Coum Transmissions GARY GILMORE MEMORIAL SOCIETY Post Card ". Printed in England 1977 COUM TRANSMISSIONS. Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Monte Cazazza. Walkerprint Publicity Services. "   Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions MUM and DAD PASTCORD Fetish Records  1973 Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions Coum Introduction Sheet   1971 Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions Alien Brain Poster   1972 Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions 3 x early COUM photos, 1970, 2 of group, one of Dagger Lane (annotated ?Alien Brain Hull?), Hull (copies made ca. 1995 by GP-O) 10 x 8 inches. [Wreckers 1.21]    Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions 5 x black and white photographs 1973 (21.5 x 16.5 cm) by David Mayor,  reprinted for Fluxbritannica at Tate Gallery, 1994, includes 2 of GP-O taken Nottingham, June 1973 (also ?Touch Poem? by Yoko Ono)   Mag/Lit Print GB 8
Coum Transmissions Black and white photograph. Live 1973 Genesis P-Orridge and COUM at the Death Factory 1973, inscribed on verso by GP-O ?Lelli on guitar, Gen on violin, John Gunni Busck on synth, 1973, Death Factory?. 186 x 134   Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions Black and white photograph. COUMing of Age Genesis P-Orridge in ?COUMing of Age?, Oval House, London, 1974. ?35? inscribed on verso. 10 x 8 inches   Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions Black and white photograph. Omissions 10 x 8 inches. Stamped on verso ?COUM TRANSMISSIONS ?Omissions? June 1975, Kulturamt Kiel, West Germany, Coum Personnel: Genesis p-Orridge. Photographer: Pedro Nicopoulos.?   Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions Black and White photograph of Cosey Fanni Tutti in Studio of Lust, Nuffield Gallery, Southampton,  1976. 168 x 115 mm. Inscribed on verso ?Studio of Lust, Southampton 3. 517-11-27a  1976 Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions 4 x photos relating to ?Prostitution?, ICA, 1976, each ca. 14 x 9 cm, signed on verso and reprinted by Paul Buck ca. 1995 [Wreckers 6.28-29]    Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions COUM Decoumposition ?Schlimm?. 1974. 15 leaves, stapled binding.  This copy signed by GP-O. Very scarce account of two works by COUM for Rottweil in 1974. Includes the manifesto ?Key Themes Used as Tri   Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions Private view card for 'Prostitution' an exhibition by Coum Transmissions at the ICA 18th October 1976  1976 Mag/Lit Print GB 2
Coum Transmissions Black and white photograph of Peter Christopherson "10 x 8 inches. Stamped on verso ?COUM TRANSMISSIONS and inscribed Mag/Lit Print GB 1
Coum Transmissions Vile International Postcard. Undated postcard (circa 1977). "  1977 Postcards Print US 1
Coum Transmissions Film Ideas Vol.2 none  0 Tape Recording GB 1
Coum Transmissions on Voicespondence No. 2 (Autumn 1976):  - The Telephone Issue Voicespondence VSP 02  1976 Tape Print CA 2
 
 
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