Breyer P-Orridge, Change Thee Way to Perceive and Change All Memory 
Oct 16–Nov 13 
 
Realizing their mutual potential, the two activists and performance artists Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge began their collaboration in the early 1990s, focusing on a central concern: the fictional Self. Considering “the ‘I’ of our consciousness as a fictional assembly or collage that resides in the environment of the body,” these two Brooklyn-based artists push the limits of body-based genders—ultimately to transcend them. “One of the central themes of our work is the malleability of physical and behavioral identity,” they explain, giving rise to their merged identity, BREYER P-ORRIDGE. 
 
CHANGE THEE WAY TO PERCEIVE AND CHANGE ALL MEMORY is the first major exhibition of BREYER P-ORRIDGE in New York. This exhibition of new and existing works includes kinetic sculpture, such as Tongue Kiss, a rotating pair of wolf heads whose knife- tongues threaten to meet; and its twin, a coyote head turning anti-clockwise inside a sunburst of knife blades—thwarting linear time. Other sculptural works incorporate found objects such as a gumball machine, reconfigured as a tampon dispenser filled with used tampons. Emblems of the merged identity of BREYER P-ORRIDGE from the SIGIL series are also central to the exhibition. While related to collage-based works, “sigils” are, by definition, functional signs considered magical.