Cosey Fanni Tutti
Cosey Fanni Tutti, Woman’s Roll, 1976. Performance at A.I.R Gallery, London, UK. Courtesy: the artist and Cabinet, London
Cosey Fanni Tutti, Woman’s Roll, 1976. Performance at A.I.R Gallery, London, UK. Courtesy: the artist and Cabinet, London
Cosey Fanni Tutti, extract from three-day ‘ACTION’, Hayward Gallery, London, 1979. Courtesy the artist and Cabinet, London
Cosey Fanni Tutti aka Cosmosis is an English performance artist, musician, writer and co founded Throbbin Gristle and was an active member in COUM.
So… I first heard of Cosey Fanni Tutti a few months ago, a family friend was really trying to get me inspired and he is pretty hip, an endless source of knowledge, although sometimes I think he is kind of square (although he really appreciates the arts and is just spews continuous streams of people I should look into). Recently, I was staying with a friend of a friend- super interesting woman and I began telling her about this performance I was shunned by the whole puppetering community for because it was too crass- we then began talking about evocative work is always reprimanded, and she begun talking about Cosey Fanni Tutti. We listened to her record, I flipped through her book and was awestruck, what a legend. She began to work in the porn industry, modeling and performing, and her performances were so controversial the government even reprimanded her.
