Cosey Fanni Tutti

The Sacred and the Profane

Interview

In issue #6 of Worms magazine, legendary artist, author, and founding member of the industrial group Throbbing Gristle, Cosey Fanni Tutti, speaks about her 2022 book Re-Sisters.

A strikingly original hybrid of memoir, biography, and cultural history, Re-Sisters interlaces the lives of three defiant women across six centuries — BBC Radiophonic Workshop pioneer Delia Derbyshire, medieval mystic Margery Kempe, and Cosey herself — using their creative “recordings” as a unifying lens. In the interview, Tutti discusses her use of literary collaging, a technique that echoes her enduring interest in reassembling fragments of text, sound, and image into new forms. She also looks back on her five-decade career — a body of work defined by radical experimentation — and reflects on how her multi-disciplinary practice continues to challenge and expand the boundaries of art. → Read

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