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As the Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey musician and writer releases new album 2t2, she will be answering your questions
Their 1976 exhibition Prostitution prompted the aforementioned parliamentary commentary, plus plenty more controversy besides: it featured explicit photography of Tutti – who also worked as a stripper and in the adult film industry – alongside rusty knives, syringes, bloodied hair and used sanitary towels. Built from samples, effects and noise, their work continued the frankness of Coum Transmissions: Zyklon B Zombie was a reference to the lethal gas used in the Nazi death camps and Hamburger Lady was inspired by the story of a burns victim. Tutti reflected on her transgressive – and at times traumatic – life’s work in her memoir Art Sex Music, published in 2017, and later wrote another book, Re-Sisters, telling the stories of two other radical women: the 20th-century electronic composer Delia Derbyshire and 15th-century mystic Margery Kempe.
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