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In COUM Transmissions the future members of Throbbing Gristle would intensely interrogate the nature of art and performance, along with testing their own experiential limits, across almost a decade of unique 'actions'. Join us on a journey through their strange world where their compulsion to find a pure and honest form of expression saw them tearing up taboos, severely unsettling the establishment on the way. Images thanks to the Tate Archive / Cabinet Gallery. WARNING - SOME IMAGES NSFW
In our latest Wreath Lecture, Joe Kennedy argues that now the flaccid post punk revival of ten years ago is over, in 2012 artists are making music that embraces the imperative to move forward and reflect troubled times. Header image: artwork for test pressing of Prurient's Bermuda Drain
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