Pandrogeny (2004)

This installation piece was created in collaboration with Genesis and Jaye Breyer P-Orridge for a retrospective exhibit of their work at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. (http://www.genesisp-orridge.com/index.php?section=news&id=17&album_id=1) The original idea was for a portrait-aspect piece to project on to a 2-story tapestry in the main hall of the museum (the final installation was less grand). The piece incorporates footage of cosmetic surgeries from their ongoing performance/action series called Breaking Sex about re-union and re-solution of male and female to a perfecting hermaphroditic state. It also includes an number of sigils, a form of magical writing, created for the piece. Although the material could easily be used for raw shock value, the piece approaches it with measured intent, meditative calm and sensuality, reflecting the motivation and method of the subjects. The image of Genesis under anesthesia is turned vertical as a reference to films of the dreamachine created by Brion Gysin and Ian ...

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This installation piece was created in collaboration with Genesis and Jaye Breyer P-Orridge for a retrospective exhibit of their work at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. (http://www.genesisp-orridge.com/index.php?section=news&id=17&album_id=1) The original idea was for a portrait-aspect piece to project on to a 2-story tapestry in the main hall of the museum (the final installation was less grand). The piece incorporates footage of cosmetic surgeries from their ongoing performance/action series called Breaking Sex about re-union and re-solution of male and female to a perfecting hermaphroditic state. It also includes an number of sigils, a form of magical writing, created for the piece. Although the material could easily be used for raw shock value, the piece approaches it with measured intent, meditative calm and sensuality, reflecting the motivation and method of the subjects. The image of Genesis under anesthesia is turned vertical as a reference to films of the dreamachine created by Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville (a stroboscopic flicker device "viewed" with the eyes closed that stimulates the optical nerve and alters the brain's electrical oscillations).

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