A LOOK AT GEN'S UNDERREPRESENTED LONG-HAIRED, GOATEE YEARS -- CLASS OF '69.
PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a long-haired, goateed Genesis P-Orridge (1950-2020) and his then significant other, Cosey Fanni Tutti (b. 1951), c. 1969. 📸: John Krivine.
PIC #2: A COUM performance outside Feren's art gallery in Hull, UK, c. 1971 (Tutti second from left).
"I’d gone to an “acid test” at the union at Hull University. I walked in, paid my entrance fee and received my tab. People were already tripping when I arrived: they were on the floor groping one another or playing with a bathtub of coloured jelly. A guy was playing the saxophone, free jazz-style. The notes were so jarring, fast and scatty that it drove me crazy. As I went to leave, I saw what I thought was a hallucination: a small, beautiful guy dressed in a black graduation gown, complete with mortarboard and a wispy, pale-lilac goatee beard.
About a week later, I was out dancing when a guy came over to me and said: “Cosmosis, Genesis would like to see you.” “What?” It was explained to me that a guy called Genesis had seen me and named me Cosmosis. It was the man I thought I had hallucinated, and he wanted us to get together. “Gen was so beautiful,” reads an entry in my diary for November 1969. "His eyes were a clear blue, his hair dark brown and his skin a clear, golden colour. He smiled so beautifully.""
-- THE GUARDIAN, "The art provocateur recalls life in an art commune in Hull, fighting the Hells Angels and thrashing Genesis P-Orridge on stage in Amsterdam," by Cosey Fanni Tutti, c. March 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com/music/2017/mar/14/i-smeared-gen-in-flour-paste-and-whipped-him-hard-an-extract-from-cosey-fanni-tuttis-book.
