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Musician and artist Cosey Fanni Tutti talks to the folks at the Tate gallery’s video channel, TateShots as part of their six episode Sound & Vision series looking at artists whose work uses both visual art and music. Featured in forthcoming instalments will be David Byrne, Lydia Lunch and Mark E Smith amongst others.

Cosey Fanni Tutti is the ideal artist to start TateShots, a Sound & Vision series on art and music, having worked across the two mediums since 1969. In this film, interspersed with live footage from her bands Throbbing Gristle and Chris and Cosey, she talks about her distaste for decorative art and how her music is all about emotion. She also discusses her work from the 1970s, in which she modeled for glamour magazines as a way to explore the commodification of sex. It would have been hypocritical, she explains, to use images of other people when she could have done it herself. Moving seamlessly between the sex, art and music industries, Cosey puts herself at the heart of her artistic output.

Via: thewire.co.uk
Source: tate.org.uk

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