Art Sex Music, Cosey Fanni Tutti
Art Sex Music, Cosey Fanni Tutti
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Art Sex Music

Author: Cosey Fanni Tutti

Narrator: Gabrielle Baker

Unabridged: 18 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/20/2018


Synopsis

Art Sex Music is the autobiography of a musician who, as a founding member of the avant-garde group Throbbing Gristle and electronic pioneers Chris & Cosey, has consistently challenged the boundaries of music over the past four decades.

It is the account of an artist who, as part of COUM Transmissions, represented Britain at the IXth Biennale de Paris, whose Prostitution show at the ICA in 1976 caused the Conservative MP Nicholas Fairbairn to declare her, COUM and Throbbing Gristle 'Wreckers of Civilisation' . . . shortly before he was arrested for indecent exposure, and whose work continues to be held at the vanguard of contemporary art.

And it is the story of her work as a pornographic model and striptease artiste which challenged assumptions about morality, erotica, and art.

Wise, shocking, and elegant, this is the life of Cosey Fanni Tutti.

Contains mature themes.

About Cosey Fanni Tutti

Cosey Fanni Tutti is a performance artist and musician best known for her time in the avant-garde groups Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey. Born in Hull in 1951, she currently resides in Norfolk.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tosh on May 03, 2017

I have never been a fan of Throbbing Gristle. My sense of aesthetic is entirely the opposite of this band. First of all, I hate their name. It's funny, but I don't think they met it as being funny. It seems Chris (and Cosey's half) always hated the band's name, and I can understand why. There is som......more

Goodreads review by julieta on February 12, 2021

Although I enjoyed reading this book, I have to say I am happy to be done with it. It is exceptionally long, at 500 pages, I think I would have gotten the idea at half its pages, since it becomes repetitive, with things that really, I got before the first 100 pages. Cosey is a wonderful character, w......more

Goodreads review by Rachelle on September 29, 2018

Lived it like a rebel, wrote it like a shopping list.......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on August 19, 2017

How wonderful it is to hear history in Cosey's voice. As a fan of Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey and having a fascination and respect for the ahead of its time performance art that Coum was doing, it was lovely to finally hear a complex history from Cosey. For years and years Gen has been metapho......more

Goodreads review by Jay on February 13, 2023

Flaubert once advised novelists to “live like a bourgeois to write like a bohemian.” Casey Fanni Tutti appears to have done the opposite, living like a bohemian to write like a bourgeois. Who knew the avant-garde life could be so dull, uninspiring, drab, and unimpressive? This really is a book for t......more