Cosey Fanni Tutti is the ideal artist to start our new 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.
TateShots: Sound & Vision is a series of six films about the intersection of art and music. They are directed by Nicola Probert and forthcoming films feature contributions from Jeffrey Lewis, David Byrne, Lydia Lunch, Mark E Smith and Billy Childish. Make sure you are subscribed to TateShots to receive each one automatically.
This is a trailer for a series of films starting next week on TateShots. They feature interviews with six musicians who cross boundaries into visual art. Talking to us are Talking Heads front-man David Byrne; The Fall’s Mark E Smith; Cosey Fanni Tutti of Throbbing Gristle; anti-folk singer and cartoonist Jeffrey Lewis; “fierce” performance poet Lydia Lunch and the prolific one-time ‘Stuckist’ Billy Childish – who will be shown interviewing himself.
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Portraitist Jonathan Yeo has painted actors, supermodels and politicians, and is perhaps best known for his collage of George W Bush made from pornographic magazines. Here, we get his impressions of three rooms in Tate Modern’s Pop Life exhibition, from Andy Warhol’s exuberant depiction of his celebrity friends, through Cosey Fanni Tutti’s soft-core modelling, and ending up in the high gloss and explicit world of Jeff Koons’sMade in Heaven.
Pop Life finishes this Sunday 17 January at Tate Modern.
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Last night's special @bbcCultureShow features some archive TateShots footage - it's a celebration of @Tate at 10... have a look on iPlayer! #2010/05/26
New TateShots - Spitting Image creator Roger Law on his contribution to Tate Britain's forthcoming show: Rude Britannia http://bit.ly/caJwB2#2010/05/18
