Cosey Fanni Tutti

So a week ago we had the wonderful Cosey Fanni Tutti lecture at the UCA. Apart from being a massive porn display it was at times informative. But it seemed by the mid 80's that she had run out of steam.

Her work seemed to go into a couple of different catagories for her. Performances, magazine actions (the porn!), Music, and stripping. I'm still not sure how her stripping fit into all of this or if she just threw it in there for good messure. Her performance, magazine actions and her stripping where about the control she had over herself and the persona or acting that she was doing. So for the magazine actions she went into it as just herself but the magazine or photographer would give her a character to play and they would dictate what she could do, so they had complete control over her. In stripping, she had control over the movements and music she did but she was still there to act as a stripper. In her art performances it was all her and whatever she felt like doing.

Her recent work(what she has done since 2000) I didn't grade much. Her series of Selflessness acts was boring and pointless. So you burned one of your bloody tampons and spread it across the entrance of Disney World, woop de doo! Sure it's funny but thats about it.

She just seemed to have a huge amount of work with a very weak or flimsy idea attached to it which she herslef seemed unable to word persicely.

But we did all get to look at porn under the umbrella of education.