Art Sex Music by Cosey Fanni Tutti

Author:Cosey Fanni Tutti [Cosey Fanni Tutti]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571328543
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2017-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

I was stripping weekday lunchtimes and then going to Beck Road to do IR mail order or TG in the evenings and on weekends, unless I was doing my own art projects. Working with Szabo was both fun and intense. We’d formulate an idea for a set of photos, I’d use my own clothes, then he’d ruminate on the overall look, mood, colours, my make-up, hair and props. When I’d arrive at his flat to work he’d always point me to the mantelpiece, where the make-up and accessories had been carefully laid out. It was like an altar awaiting my presence, the point from which our creative collaborations began. As I applied my make-up he’d direct me, commenting on the position of colours. We were engaged in an intimate, ritualistic collaboration, working together to realise the aesthetic we jointly envisaged. He had an incredible eye for form and I trusted him to direct me for body shape and position.

I’d been selected to contribute to the Hayward Annual at the Hayward Gallery and used one of Szabo’s photos as the poster for my solo three-day art action. He also loaned me some transparencies he’d taken of me, which I had projected alongside images of my striptease work on a wall of the action space. These images were supplemented over the next three days by those taken by Sleazy of my three actions, creating a slide show juxtaposing my private and public ‘body’ of works projected as part of the live action taking place.

From this amalgamation of my separate activities evolved a new work, ‘Life Forms’ – modelling, striptease and art actions echoing one another in form but unrelated in context and framed in relationship to my art and life. I first exhibited ‘Life Forms’ in the group exhibition ‘Masculine & Feminine’ in Graz, Austria, two months later.

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