Valentine's Day marked the seventh anniversary of the decision made by Genesis P-Orridge's SELF (GPO) and the late Lady Jaye's SELF to go public with their PANDROGENY project by getting matching breast implants. This husband and wife team chose to live as one entity called Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and to get loads of painful plastic surgery in an effort to appear identical. GANG. STER. Breyer P-Orridge's dedication to doing the weirdest shit EVER simply for the sake of art is UNREAL. You love your wife so much you want her tits on your body? Like attached to your torso?
I kid though because honestly, it was less about love and more about their transgressive views on transsexuality and gender variant activism. But whatevs. Breyer P-Orridge's strong belief that art is truly inseparable from daily life brought their SELVES to commit to this project as a way of fucking with what s/he feels is the fictional notion of the self and of gender constraints.
After Lady Jaye's passing, GPO has still continued to alter "their" body to look more like Lady Jaye, and on V-Day had Jaye's eyebrows and facial birthmarks tattooed on as tribute.
GPO was famous for a ton of other art & music sheeeit before this project was started in the '90's. Read about it someplace else. Too lazy to type. I'm still recovering from the past few days. BUT trust me. It's dope.
GPO also has a show at Renwick Gallery with Daniel Albrigo that's going on until the 22nd. It's called Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is...A LOVE STORY. The exhibition gets its title from another project GPO did where s/he had all of h/er teeth removed, cast in gold, and then replaced. There is absolutely nothing more dedicated and absurd and amazing.
The above paragraphs sound straight dumb. I'm still a corpse from this weekend. Incapable of making sense. Someone make me tea and bring me Advil.
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