Nonbinary: A Memoir

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A revealing memoir from a pioneering industrial musician and visual artist who inspired generations of outsiders, rebels, and risk-takers

In a memoir spanning decades of artistic risk-taking, Genesis P-Orridge, the inventor of industrial music, founder of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and world-renowned ne artist takes us on a journey through creativity and destruction, pleasure and pain. Genesiss unwillingness to be stuckin one place, in one genre, or in one genderwill be an inspiration to the newest generation of trailblazers and nonconformists. Its for an audience that cannot and will not be ignored. Nonbinary has far-reaching potential because of Genesiss remarkable body of work. It is full of great stories about Genesiss experiences with icons like William S. Burroughs and Ian Curtis.

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Genesis had a profound impact on me as an artist and then a dear friend. Reading this illuminating and radically open memoir is an honor. The echoes of such a strong creative voice unveiling the experiences of the proverbial climb to becoming a true artist and later cultural icon is mesmerizing. -- Asia Argento * actor, director, and author *
Genesis was continually breaking new ground and developing new projects with the aim of short circuiting received ideas, chipping a hole in the carapace, questioning everything: religion, education, nationality, sexual identity to find the reality behind the society of the spectacle. Gen was always going forwards. It is fascinating to read the back story, finally told. -- Barry Miles * bestselling author *
Genesis P-Orridgea mystifying vanguard with a gift of prophecy. Nonbinary is thee definitive oracle from the heart of the indefinable. -- Wesley Eisold * musician, poet, and author *
An entertaining and thoughtful book about a remarkable life that consistently embraced transformation. * Kirkus Reviews *
Part narrative, part philosophy, this outr memoir is a remarkable experience. * Booklist *

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GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE (February 22, 1950March 14, 2020) was a legendary singer-songwriter, musician, writer, occultist, cultural engineer, and visual artist. P-Orridge rose to notoriety as the founder of the COUM Transmissions art collective, which operated in Britain from 1969 to 1976. P-Orridge cofounded and fronted the pioneering industrial band Throbbing Gristle and the experimental multi-media outfit Psychic TV, paralleled by P-Orridges cofounding of the communal network Temple Ov Psychick Youth. In 1996, P-Orridge and partner Lady Jaye embarked on the Pandrogyne Project, a living art concept that blended physical and psychological mediums, creating the unified Breyer P-Orridge. In recent years, P-Orridge performed with their spoken word project Thee Majesty, which in the past included such collaborators as William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Timothy Leary, Monte Cazazza, Aaron Dilloway, Merz-bow, Tony Conrad, and countless others. P-Orridge also continued perform-ing sold-out shows all over the world with PTV3, an iteration of Psychic TV that spanned almost two decades. Over the past fifty years, P-Orridges art-works have been exhibited in hundreds of museums and galleries across the world, cementing P-Orridges prolific career of contributions to Fluxus, mail art, collage, sound poetry, and conceptual art. The archives of Genesis P-Orridge were acquired for the permanent collection of Londons Tate Britain in 2010.