Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Lecture

Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco Campus Seminal alternative artist and musician Genesis Breyer P-Orridge was born Neil Andrew Megson in 1950 in the United Kingdom and reborn as a gender-erasing pandrogyne with her partner, Lady Jaye, in 1993. S/he rose to notability as founder of the confrontational COUM Transmissions artistic collective, which operated in Britain from 1969 to 1975, and gained widespread notoriety for their Prostitution Show at London’s ICA in 1976, after which they were vilified as “wr