In her infamous exhibition 'Prostitution' at the Institute of Contemporary Art,
London, 1976 Cosey Fanni Tutti occupied multiple roles; artist, model,
musician, and herself. Music was used in some of Cosey's performances in
preference to spoken language, which she considered an obstacle to her visual
presentations.
She continued to explore the use of sound, scientifically, politically, commercially and as a means of
physical pleasure or pain. In 1976 she co-founded the group Throbbing Gristle
with Chris Carter, Peter Christopherson and Genesis P-Orridge. They broke the
rules of established music and its contextual business practice, ultimately
becoming successful with their own record label, Industrial Records.
In 1981
Cosey immersed herself in creating music and video with partner Chris Carter
under the name Chris & Cosey most recently performing and recording as
Carter Tutti. Their joint musical and video collaborations, some 32 albums,
have met with continuing international success.
1994 marked Cosey's re-entry into the art world since which time her works have been widely exhibited in Museums and Galleries in the UK, USA, Italy, Austria, Germany, Lisbon, Japan, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland and Sweden.
Cosey's continuing multi disciplinary approach to her work has generated many audio and visual works contributing to a prolific output in the past 15 years alongside her guest lectures, discussion panel appearances and numerous presentations.
Her approach to her work also inspired the one day event in March 2010 'COSEY COMPLEX' at the ICA, London in which a range of artists, writers and other practitioners were invited to present works inspired by the notion of 'Cosey as Methodology', culminating in a music event 'COSEY CLUB-ICA'.
1994 marked Cosey's re-entry into the art world since which time her works have been widely exhibited in Museums and Galleries in the UK, USA, Italy, Austria, Germany, Lisbon, Japan, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland and Sweden.
Cosey's continuing multi disciplinary approach to her work has generated many audio and visual works contributing to a prolific output in the past 15 years alongside her guest lectures, discussion panel appearances and numerous presentations.
Her approach to her work also inspired the one day event in March 2010 'COSEY COMPLEX' at the ICA, London in which a range of artists, writers and other practitioners were invited to present works inspired by the notion of 'Cosey as Methodology', culminating in a music event 'COSEY CLUB-ICA'.
In 2009 - 2010 Cosey's work was part of the travelling exhibition 'Pop Life:Art in a Material World' at Tate Modern, London. Also in 2010 Cosey performed a solo audio visual piece in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern as part of the Tate Modern 10th birthday celebrations.
Her art practice takes its place alongside her continuing music work with Chris Carter (as CARTER TUTTI) and the re-grouping of Throbbing Gristle and their continuing world-wide performances and recordings. Her work continues to be exhibited internationally, most recently in 'Pop Life' at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada and 'Picture Industry' at Regen Projects summer show in Los Angeles in 2010.
She works closely with and is represented by Cabinet Gallery, London.
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