Genesis P-Orridge: video interview

For more than a decade, industrial music pioneer Genesis P-Orridge, of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and his wife Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge were in the midst of an extreme experiment to merge their identities into a single "pandrogynous" being. They went as far as getting multiple cosmetic surgeries to look more similar. Then tragically, almost exactly a year ago, Lady Jaye suddenly died of heart failure. The pandrogyny project continues though, and hearing Gen talk about it in this video interview is quite moving. Looking Like Your Love in the United States (Thanks, Gary Chong via Richard Metzger!)

Previously on BB:
• Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge of Psychic TV, RIP

[#1 posted by Xeni Jardin , November 4, 2008 9:41 AM]

Did you guys see that RADAR piece about Gen and Lady Jaye? I thought it was really beautiful.

Link to article.

[#2 posted by AGF , November 4, 2008 9:51 AM]

Wow. How beautiful.

[#3 posted by zuzu , November 4, 2008 9:53 AM]

And we eventually realized that the program that's really in control is our DNA. It determines so many areas of life, biologically as well as culturally. So in that sense, DNA is the enemy of our freedom. We have to fight it.

Considering that reprogenetics is likely before widespread gene therapy, this is indeed fascinating to consider -- especially when we can concretely blame our parents / society for our DNA, rather than the vagary of God / fate.

So much for "biology is destiny".

From the moment a baby comes into the world, he went on, he or she is under pressure to meet other people's expectations. "From the very beginning, you're manipulated and directed and pressured into other people's ideas of what they would like you to be. The person that you are is a fictional narrative written by other people. And at some point in your life, you feel a need to be the author of your own story. So we're taking charge of the narrative of identity. This is a declaration of control over our own evolution."

We need morphological freedom, and we need it now.

Great and engaging finds David / Xeni!

[#4 posted by GuidoDavid , November 4, 2008 10:09 AM]

Seems to me like that Greg Egan's story, Closer. http://eidolon.net/?story=Closer&pagetitle=Closer§ion=fiction
It begins with a wonderful sentence: "Nobody wants to spend eternity alone".

[#5 posted by gATO , November 4, 2008 4:02 PM]

That was heartbreaking...

[#6 posted by David Pescovitz , November 4, 2008 4:41 PM]

ZUZU @3, Great comment. Thanks.