Item #40309 Genesis P-Orridge’s business card, stating “from The Arts Council of Great Britain”, c. 1973. COUM.
Genesis P-Orridge’s business card, stating “from The Arts Council of Great Britain”, c. 1973.

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Genesis P-Orridge’s business card, stating “from The Arts Council of Great Britain”, c. 1973.

Printed in black on white card stock. 6x9.2cm.

Prints the words “1st COUM”, the Piccadilly address of the Arts Council, COUM’s Martello Street address in Hackney, and the name Genesis P-Orridge, to which, with an assumed grandeur, he has added the post-nominal letters, PhD.

Invariably short of finance, P-Orridge was constantly applying to the Arts Council for grants on behalf of COUM, and they were awarded their first (worth £100) in May 1972, allowing them to acquire a secondhand van to transport their equipment, and in April 1973 they were awarded an ‘Experimental Arts’ grant worth £250.

Near Fine. A rare copy of P-Orridge’s spurious business card, no doubt used by him to blag gigs.

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