In the video below Cosey talks about COUM's time in Hull.
COUM reached their peak in 1976 with the 'Prostitution' installation at the ICA in London in a show that included images from Cosey's work in the sex industry and which got the group denounced in parliament as "Wreckers of Western civilisation".
The demise of COUM following the ICA show meant a shift of focus back towards music in the company of Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson and Chris Carter as Throbbing Gristle. Over the next six years TG's boundary and genre pushing music, imagery and performances instigated a new and ever expanding genre of music.
On the collapse of TG in 1981 the various members split initially in two, Genesis and Sleazy forming Psychic TV before the latter left to join John Balance in Coil, whilst Cosey and Chris formed Chris & Cosey and, since the turn of the millennium, Carter Tutti. In those guise the couple further developed the ideas they'd formulated as part of TG incorporating pop and dance elements alongside the avant garde.
In 2017 Cosey, via Faber & Faber, published her autobiography, 'Art Sex Music', to significant acclaim and this was followed in 2022 by 'Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti'.
The long interview below, dating from 2010, features Cosey in conversation about various aspects of her life, the tools she uses and about creativity in general. It makes for fascinating listening and is a genuine pleasure to be invited, however briefly, into Cosey's world.
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