Cosey Fanni Tutti

Cosey Fanni Tutti was born in Hull, England in 1951. Tutti has produced music, video and multi-media artworks. She has contributed to international art, music exhibitions, festivals, film and T.V. soundtracks. In 1976 she co-founded Throbbing Gristle and the label Industrial music with Chris Carter, Peter Christopherson and Gensis P-Orridge. In 1981 she began working with Chris Carter as CTI and Chris & Cosey producing music and video.

Often working naked in her performance pieces, she investigated the world of sex magazines, film , modeling and striptease from 1973 to 1984. Her experiences were brought into her work as she explored the many levels of sex as it is perceived and presented as a commercial product. She represented a much desired freedom for women to express themselves sexually without guilt or preconceived ideas of "beauty." In 1994, the composition of the CTI musical piece CHRONOMANIC brought together Cosey's work in all fields: music, a reproduction of one of Cosey's encaustic paintings for the CD cover and a short video commissioned for the Sonar festival.

In recent years, she has performed and exhibited her work at the First International Female Artists Biennale in Stockholm (1995), at MoCA, Los Angeles (1998/99), and at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London (2000).

“2t, the essence of my 'self' in a synthesis of sounds. A distillation, fragmentation and displacement of sound bites of significant events from my personal life, art actions, musical compositions and personal statements.

2t (Head to Head)
Pieces of the past
like broken mirrors
floating
sweeping
my mind soundscape
to your mind soundscape.”

“Everything has a history, if we investigate it then we have more of an understanding of what we are dealing with. Confronted with the visual result of years of experiences we are not always aware of what made this whole. It is important to have knowledge of the fragile events that lead us to where we are now.”