Doors at 7, event starts at 7:30
Admission $18
September 11, 2026, 7pm
Brooklyn NY 11205
USA
Join us at e-flux on Friday, September 11, at 7pm for an event honoring pioneering artist and musician Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950-2020) and h/er collaborator and partner Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge (1969-2007). The evening will begin with a screening of The Pandrogeny Manifesto (directed by Dionysos Andronis and Aldo Lee, 2006), followed by a performance by musician Roxy Farman and a talk by curator Jarrett Earnest.
The Pandrogeny Manifesto introduces us to Breyer P-Orridge’s decade-long Pandrogeny project, which is simultaneously an artwork, a way of life, and a testament to love. Inspired by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin’s cut-up technique, Genesis and Lady Jaye take us through an adventure of plastic surgery, dress, and shamanistic rituals, reimagining the human body with one goal in mind: to become one. On Valentine’s Day in 2003, s/he began h/er transformation with a surgery for a matching set of breast implants. H/er transformation would eventually lead to the achievement of h/er angelic form. As s/he noted, “[a]ngels don’t have genitals, and they’re neither male nor female.” H/er aspiration was to become a single pandrogynous being named Breyer P-Orridge. Pandrogeny is an ideology that defies gender norms and the limitations imposed on one's DNA, while also challenging the separation between self and other. Needless to say, Breyer P-Orridge masterfully blurred the lines between life and art.
After the screening, Roxy Farman, a former collaborator and friend of Breyer P-Orridge, will present an audio-visual performance that draws on the cut-up collaging technique central to Breyer P-Orridge’s practice. The evening will conclude with a talk by Jarrett Earnest, who will discuss a previously hidden conceptual artwork that Genesis created in 1977 in the form of an encyclopedia of contemporary artists, considering it in relation to h/er later collaboration with Lady Jaye and the development of pandrogyny.
This program is curated by e-flux Performance Curator Sanna Almajedi together with Benjamin Tischer of New Discretions.
For more information, please contact program@e-flux.com.
Accessibility
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
–For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the event space and this bathroom.
