Photograph of Cosey Fanni Tutti tying back her hair, taken by Genesis P-Orridge, during the performance ‘Womenʼs Roll’, at A.I.R. Gallery, 125 – 129 Shaftesbury Avenue, London.

AIR Gallery (1975-1978) was established as an extension of the Artist Information Registry, with the goal of providing an additional platform to showcase artists’ work. Exhibitions were curated by a panel consisting of three AIR artists alongside an external guest, which in this instance was Genesis P-Orridge.

“In July 1976 the organisers of the recently opened AIR Gallery, on Shaftsbury Avenue, invited P-Orridge to curate a series of performance art events. Drawing on the experience of his recent court appearance, he called the series ‘Crime Affirms Existence–High Crime is Like High Art’. At one of these evenings, on 6 July 1976, in front of an audience of about thirty (and after Tutti’s first solo performance, Women’s Roll), TG made their debut appearance.” — Source : ‘Wreckers of Civilisation: The Story of COUM Transmissions & Throbbing Gristle’, edited by Simon Ford, p.6.16, Black Dog Publishing Limited, 1999.