A transgressive personality in their art, body, and life, Genesis P-Orridge is in the frontline of gender revolution, but also in music, while they invoke a spirituality, often as a means of survival for a life made of losses and excesses, linked mainly to occultism and paganism. This most recent documentary on their life is also a presage of their death, that happened in 2020, in which, facing a heavy physical burden, Genesis awards us a very generous last breath on who they are. It is up to us, as spectators, to allow ourselves to indulge on the meaning of other ways of being and making. Genesis was born in Manchester, was part of the performance art collective COUM Transmissions, and in 1976 founded the industrial band Throbbing Gristle and then the Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth, which promoted magic sex and eventually led to an arrest warrant by the Scotland Yard, forcing them to flee to the USA. In 1993 they met Lady Jane and together, in Queens, they notably developed the concept of “pandrogeny”, opening way to a true cultural revolution. J.F.      

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