For nearly half a century Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (British, 1950–2020) questioned the meaning and substance of identity through artistic endeavors, willful reincarnation, and physical shapeshifting. Embracing the body as not simply the vessel but the site of the avant-garde impulse, Breyer P-Orridge reinvented and reintroduced h/erself again and again—as Fluxus pioneer, groundbreaking performance artist, inventor of industrial music, “wrecker of civilization,” essayist and theoretician, and with her late wife Lady Jaye as pandrogyne. Breyer P-Orridge’s work has been the subject of numerous international exhibitions, including S/he is Her/e at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (2013), and Life Is A Cheap Suitcase at Summerhall, Edinburgh (2014).
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
