Cosey Fanni Tutti, a founding member of the band Throbbing Gristle and a radical performance artist, was labeled a “wrecker of civilisation” by Conservative MP Sir Nicholas Fairbairn in 1976 following her controversial art exhibition, Prostitution. This exhibition, created by Tutti and her collective COUM Transmissions, featured pornographic images alongside used bandages and tampons, sparking significant media outrage and a parliamentary debate. Now 73, Tutti reflects on how it has taken 50 years for the exhibition to be understood in its true context.
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