A Study in Scarlet — Exposition collective — Frac île-de-france, le Plateau — Exhibition — Slash Paris

Past: May 17 → July 22, 2018

A Study in Scarlet — Le Plateau Autour de Cosey Fanni Tutti, figure d’un art multidisciplinaire qui engagea et engage encore sa vie dans la création à travers sa p... 2 - Bien Critique

Cosey Fanni Tutti (b. 1951 in Kinston-up on-Hull, England) is well known as a member of the English group Throbbing Gristle, which had a significant impact on the late 1970s’ experimental music scene. Besides her musical activities, Cosey developed a unique body of work defined by her actions within the pornographic industry.

A Study in Scarlet was conceived as a nebula of works revolving around Cosey Fanni Tutti’s artistic legacy, looking at its influences (Beat Generation, Fluxus), companions (COUM Transmissions, Monte Cazazza) and contemporaries (Karen Finley), while crossing various issues or strategies also used in more recent practices: infiltrating an institution or industry (artistic, pornographic, musical), integrating the body into a production line, overturning a norm by exacerbating it or making it redundant, self-representing and self-defining one’s own identity, ‘pro-sex’ feminism, the visibility of women on radical music scenes, etc. […]

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Exhibition curator : Gallien Déjean