NEWS ARCHIVE 2012
A new design by Cosey - My Art is My Life. My Life is My Art
Printed in white and red on a black shirt with The Wire logo and 'Cosey Fanni Tutti My Art is My Life. My Life is My Art ' printed in red on the back of the neck. Limited edition of 100 shirts.
Price (including p&p): £20.
Available from www.thewire.co.uk
Industrial Records is proud to announce the much anticipated TWO album release DESERTSHORE / THE FINAL REPORT, a unique collaboration by Chris Carter, Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson and
Cosey Fanni Tutti.
This is a two album release celebrating both the progress inherent in change and the fulfilment of two exceptional, yet separate projects.
Available Now! from Industrial Records
‘Desertshore’
The ‘Desertshore’ project is a 're-imagined' cover version of Nico’s seminal 1970 album first conceived by the late Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson in Berlin 2006. In 2010 at his home in Bangkok, he refocussed his approach readying to record guest vocalists while Chris and Cosey prepared material in their UK studio for his return there in December. Sadly, Sleazy unexpectedly died in his sleep on the 25th November in Bangkok.
Chris and Cosey made a commitment to Sleazy to complete the ‘Desertshore’ project picking up from where they left off just prior to his untimely passing. With enthusiastic support and contributions from so many who were close to Sleazy, especially the guest artistes whose work he admired; Antony, Marc Almond, Blixa Bargeld, Sasha Grey and Gaspar Noé,
the project is now complete.
"a quite remarkable set of songs, a repurposing of Nico's maudlin, scraping sorrow into the deep mindmassaging electronics that characterised later live work by Throbbing Gristle, X-TG and Carter Tutti,arguably even Coil's Ape Of Naples." Luke Turner for The Quietus as part of a review of a live remix preview performance of 'Desertshore' at AV Festival 2012.
‘The Final Report’
Throughout their 36 year friendship Chris Carter, Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson and Cosey Fanni Tutti produced many pioneering and acclaimed collaborative works together.
These trio sessions were without exception always very productive; ideas that produced many hours of recordings, sound experiments, research in new performance possibilities, visuals, the ongoing design and building of new and innovative instruments; a constant restless exploration of new paths together.
‘The Final Report’ album has been completed from their final 2009/2010 sessions together at Chris and Cosey's studio in Norfolk. This album stands as the final report; a celebration, a loving remembrance of their unique partnership.
Industrial Records Ltd are proud to release these TWO extraordinary recordings.
Two teaser videos are available on YouTube
Cosey has composed a new sound piece ‘Bioschismic’ that can be heard as part of the 'Bruce Nauman Days' exhibition at the I.C.A. in London.
19 June 2012 - 16 September. Entry to the exhibition is free.
‘Bioschismic’ - inspired and made possible by Xeni Jardin
“Time becomes plastic. Your experience of time morphs................ And when you come out of it, on the strong days right before the next scheduled infusion, all of that time compresses into blurry waves of noise.” Xeni Jardin
Time is defined by and within the human experience yet the dominance of ‘linear’ time prevails. We are inextricably linked with time, ‘Life’ is measured in time.
Depending on particular situations our experience of time can be elusive, appear stretched, accelerated, and on occasions all too specifically in synch with defined parameters. Audio recordings, film, Internet, and photography are some of the means by which we choose to mark ‘times’. Such documentary methods signify our need to externalise particular events and also to activate memories.
‘Bioschismic’ is created solely from audio and photographic documentation of Xeni’s time spent receiving Chemo Therapy. The repetitive drip drip rhythm of the toxic chemicals measured in precise doses over a specific period of time provide the prospect of extending (life) time. Time is the dominant force yet the effects of the drugs change the experience of time to a space that is other worldly - a different time zone - a schism within and for life itself. Cosey Fanni Tutti
Xeni Jardin: www.xeni.nt
'Bioschismic' Soundcloud page: www.soundcloud.com
Further details on the I.C.A. website: www.ica.org.uk
soundcloud.com/icalondon/cosey-fanni-tutti-bioschismic
Depending on particular situations our experience of time can be elusive, appear stretched, accelerated, and on occasions all too specifically in synch with defined parameters. Audio recordings, film, Internet, and photography are some of the means by which we choose to mark ‘times’. Such documentary methods signify our need to externalise particular events and also to activate memories.
‘Bioschismic’ is created solely from audio and photographic documentation of Xeni’s time spent receiving Chemo Therapy. The repetitive drip drip rhythm of the toxic chemicals measured in precise doses over a specific period of time provide the prospect of extending (life) time. Time is the dominant force yet the effects of the drugs change the experience of time to a space that is other worldly - a different time zone - a schism within and for life itself. Cosey Fanni Tutti
Xeni Jardin: www.xeni.nt
'Bioschismic' Soundcloud page: www.soundcloud.com
Further details on the I.C.A. website: www.ica.org.uk
soundcloud.com/icalondon/cosey-fanni-tutti-bioschismic
DESERTSHORE ALBUM
9th JUNE:
As part of the 'We Can Elude Control' event at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill On Sea, Sussex, Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti will be performing a live remix of Throbbing Gristle's final studio album 'Desertshore'.
The album was instigated by, and is in memory of, the late Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson (1955 - 2010) as a ‘cover’ album, and is inspired by Nico’s 1970 ‘Desertshore’ LP, originally the soundtrack to Phillip Garrel's mythopoetic film 'La Cicatrice Interieure' (The Inner Scar).
Please Note:
This is a free event and tickets can not be booked in advance.
Chris & Cosey will be performing at approx. 8pm.
Further details here: www.dlwp.com
We are thrilled to announce that the book 'COSEY COMPLEX' is now published and available!
This is a major new publication shifting Cosey Fanni Tutti from noun to verb. This new book is the first major publication discussing and theorising Cosey as methodology.
Contributors include: Martin Bax, Gerard Byrne, Daniela Cascella, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Diedrich Diederichsen, Graham Duff, Anthony Elms, Chris Kraus, Patricia MacCormack, Clunie Reid, Rob Stone, Corin Sworn and Cosey Fanni Tutti.
Published by Koenig Books, Koln - ISBN 978 3 86335 152 6
Edited by Maria Fusco & Richard Birkett.
Designed by Zak Kyes.
Cosey Complex the event (27-03-2010)
Press Release
Available to buy from the following sites:
Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.com
Also generally available in all good art and cultural bookstores.
Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti will be performing their acclaimed Chris & Cosey set at the 10th Nuits Sonores Festival, Lyon, France on 16th May.
Anciennes usines Brossette – Stage 3
34 rue Crépet, 69007 Lyon, France
Further details available here > http://www.nuits-sonores.com
Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti will be performing their acclaimed Chris & Cosey set at Villette Sonique, Paris on 27th May.
Further details available here > http://www.villettesonique.com
Mute are pleased to announce the release of CARTER TUTTI VOID’s Transverse, a unique collaboration from Chris Carter & Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle) and Nik Void (Factory Floor), out on vinyl, CD and download on 26 March 2012.
Transverse is a unique collaboration, created especially for the legendary Short Circuit presents Mute festival at the Roundhouse, London in 2011.
The tracks were prepared in the studio and then performed and recorded live in front of an audience. Outside of the trio, these recordings were unheard prior to the festival and the popularity of the performance left many being turned away at the door.
Mute is proud to make this groundbreaking recording available and to be working again with two of electronic music’s true pioneers and one of its new trail blazers.
Said The Quietus of the performance: “…a warm embrace, creating a deep connection… Carter at the back manipulates the electronics while on either flank, Void scratches noise with bowed guitar and Tutti plays while singing vocals that she mangles and distorts… there is no nihilism in this noise, nothing but a deep and wonderful sense of love.”
More details here: MUTE
Recent Press for Carter Tutti Void • LINK
AT AV FESTIVAL UK
Wishful Thinking: In Remembrance of Peter Christopherson.
Sat 17th March 2012, 8pm–12am
Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter will premiere a selection of live remixes from Throbbing Gristle’s nascent, and final, studio album: a cover of Nico's 1970 Desertshore LP.
This will be preceded by a rare screening of Philippe Garrel’s The Inner Scar film for which Desertshore was soundtrack and inspiration.
More details and ticket information is available here:
http://www.avfestival.co.uk
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my life is my art, my art is my life