My Favourite Mutant

Charles Burns´ paintings are glowing from the centre with the blackest black. Obsessed with the horrors of science, puberty and nature, Burns is certainly one of the most "american" contemporary artists.



A vast exhibition has just opened in New York and David Fincher is currently adapting Burns´ "Black Hole" for the big screen.



Charles Burns also did the sleeves for Iggy Pop´s 1990 second attempt to cross over into mainstream rock with "Brick by Brick" and his stunning duet-single "Candy" with Kate "B-52" Pierson.



Both characters in their own right look as if they jumped out of one of Charles´ paintings. Here is the video for "Candy" which is always welcomed for the incredible vocal performance of Kate Pierson and Iggy´s sleek, marine-green chair.

Horny and Bored

Detroit "low-brow" artist Glenn Barr´s pictures look like delirious dreams of a heterosexual William S. Burroughs, whose "Interzone" is located somewhere between the Mad-Magazine office and a Ren & Stimpy cartoon.


It turns out that he was actually working for both of them!

His "Betty (bored and horny)" (top picture) shares the same aesthetics and humour as my beloved Moritz Rrr.


See more of Barr´s work on his website, where his books can also be ordered.

"DNA is the enemy of our freedom. We have to fight it!"

The title quote comes from artist extra-ordinaire Genesis P-Orridge, remembering an exchange with William S. Burroughs about the source of human control.


After he met Jaqueline "Lady Jaye" Breyer in an S&M dungeon fifteen years ago they both decided to fight their DNA by becoming one person. First the act called "pandrogeny" was simply executed by dressing alike but after ten years they both decided to undergo an endless amount of plastic surgery to resemble each other as much as humanly possible.
The above picture shows them leaving a clinic after extensive surgery in 2003.

P-Orridge emphasises that "Pandrogeny is not about the pain of a man being trapped in a woman´s body. Its about the pain of being trapped in any body at all."

Sadly, "Lady Jaye" Breyer P-Orridge died late last year, leaving Gen with the task of living his/her life for the both of them.

Read the whole touching story about the "wrecker of civilisation" and the love of his life at Radar Magazine. It´s an amazing read that manages to give a good re-cap of P-Orridges long an notorious career as an artist and musician who is so influential that we tend to remember his epigones more than s/him.