“I would experiment with porridge - make porridge pancakes, fry porridge - and so friends started calling me 'Porridge.' But I got to feel that I was becoming a character, a work of fiction, in a sense.”

English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, performance artist, visual artist, and occultist

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge was an English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, performance artist, visual artist, and occultist. They rose to prominence as the founder of the COUM Transmissions art collective and as the lead vocalist of the industrial band Throbbing Gristle. They later became a founding member of Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth, an occult group, and fronted the experimental pop rock band Psychic TV. Their work moved across music, performance, visual art, and esoteric practice, with a career built around challenging forms and collaborative projects.