1st 2009 Invisible Exports hardback. Illustrated in colour. Pictorial boards. NM.
 
Catalogue from 30 Years of Being Cut Up, the 30-year retrospective of collages by Genesis at Invisible-Exports, September 2009. Includes a full color pull-out poster and two full color postcard inserts. This book draws on collage work from throughout P-Orridge's career, demonstrating both the breadth and scope of h/er engagement with a medium that remained constant throughout h/er life.
 
In the early 1970s, P-Orridge met William S. Burroughs, who introduced h/er to Brion Gysin, marking the beginning of a seminal and influential collaborative relationship. Burroughs, under Gysin's tutelage, repopularized the "cut-up" technique of the early 20th century Surrealists, in which text, or narrative imagery, is cut up and re-organized, creating a new, non-linear formulation. The supremely Dadaist practice would influence P-Orridge throughout h/er career and remained an integral element of h/er work.