Genesis P-Orridge died on March 14 in New York. Genesis led a life of spectacle, philosophy and professionally challenging the norms of middle class bourgeois culture. The work of Genesis represents an important bridge between the counter culture of the 1960s and the ubiquitous mediation of culture in the present day cyber society. The work of Genesis is almost a road map of the shift from counter culture to resistance, whereby the idea of 'alternative' was swept up by mass consumption and distribution models and made into a form of identity. This formation of identity according to the market is something that Genesis fell into, and seemed to be relying upon in the challenge to conservative definition of gender. The resistance to conservative gender norms shifted Genesis back towards the idea of marginal, counter or revolutionary.
In this film Genesis and his lover, Lady Jaye, express their deep bond by melding their identities through plastic surgery.
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