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Genesis P-Orridge (b. 1950)


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Weird Woman (State 1) (2003-2010)



I wanted to ask you about your video.
Genesis P-Orridge: Which Weird Woman is it, then?
‘State One’ and ‘State Two,’ it says.
Genesis P-Orridge: Ah, Pinky? Poor Pinky! That story is sick. It has to be one of the sickest stories we’ve ever done.
When did that story come to you?
Genesis P-Orridge: Well, you can probably tell from the outfit we’re wearing that Lady Jay designed the outift. She styled it. So Weird Woman was Lady Jay’s creation. Gosh, in 1969 we wrote this book called Missus Asquith and it was about a paranoid schizophrenic landlady who ran a bed and breakfast and who also had one person staying in her house whose name was Ivan Bitovovich. But Ivan and Bitovovich didn’t realize that they were the same person. So Bitovovich was having an affair with Missus Asquith, but Ivan was jealous and also a vouyeur of pete and thumb. And so Ivan would watch Bitovovich and Missus Asquith have sex, not realizing it was him. Are you with me so far? And so in this strange, twisted, warped world, we started to do it like it was a radio play—me and Lady Jay. So we would sorta go, ‘It’s peas, Missus Asquith, it’s peas!’ And then Bitovovich had this paranoid idea that when he saw peas on a plate they were really pea crabs and if you didn’t look carefully they would suddenly grow legs and attack you. So Weird Woman grew out of Missus Asquith—sort of an amalgam of paranoia and sort of warped perceptions. And then Jay decided that she would wear these really horrible clothes and this black wig.
The tie pin is really good.
Genesis P-Orridge: Oh, yes, yes.
Is that a swastika?
Genesis P-Orridge: It’s a swastika with um–what’s those plants in Switzerland? Alpine Lillies. So Weird Woman grew out of that. We used to just improvise at night, making up stories to each other. And so at some point we began making videos but when that one was done we don’t remember. It was completely made up on the spot. We were doing something else and then Jay just said, ‘Why don’t you do one of those weird women?’ ‘Okay.’ And made the story up out of nowhere.

[SOURCE: http://larecord.com/interviews/2010/06/12/genesis-p-orridge-could-you-just-explain-the-meaning-of-the-universe-for-me/]




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