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# Breaking the Gender Binary with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge at MoMA PS1
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/breaking-the-gender-binary-with-genesis-breyer-p-orridge-at-moma-ps1/
- Published: 2017-02-24T21:47:02.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:12:59.000Z
- Description: In a lecture at MoMA PS1, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge will trace how their beginnings in the music scene helped them to shatter preconceived notions of gender.
- Author: Elisa Wouk Almino
- Tags: Art, Events, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, MoMA PS1, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:23 (2016, 2017, part 2)

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Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Lady Jaye (photo by Laure A. Leber)

You may know [Genesis Breyer P-Orridge](http://www.genesisbreyerporridge.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) from their collages of tabloid articles, altars with stuffed bunnies, or project to surgically alter themselves to resemble their late partner, Lady Jaye. But before all this, P-Orridge started as a musician, performing in experimental, electronic bands in 1970s London. For the culminating event of MoMA PS1’s series [*Between 0 and 1: Remixing Gender, Technology and* *Music*](http://momaps1.org/sundaysessions/between-0-and-1-remixing-gender-technology-and-music/?ref=hyperallergic.com), P-Orridge will trace their beginnings in the British music scene and how they helped them to shatter preconceived notions of gender.

Today, P-Orridge’s performance and [visual art](https://hyperallergic.com/praying-at-the-altar-of-genesis-breyer-p-orridge/) are inextricable, and always a deeply personal manifestation of their identity. While the MoMA event is a billed as a “lecture,” it will certainly be more lively than your average one, with noise artist Dreamcrusher and electronic musician Elysia Crampton opening the event. It is also an apt conclusion to a series of workshops, performances, and talks that has explored how people with gender nonconforming identities have found expression through technology and music.

**When:** Sunday, February 26, live performances at 3pm and 4pm, lecture-performance at 5pm ($15 for nonmembers, $13 for members)  
**Where:** MoMA PS1 (22–25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens)

*More info* [*here*](http://momaps1.org/sundaysessions/between-0-and-1-remixing-gender-technology-and-music/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*