...documents Breyer P-Orridge’s journey from the early COUM Transmissions work and the experimental music of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV to h/er more recent rethinking of love, gender and the concept of the individual itself, which s/he termed Pandrogeny.
- Editors, Kaleidoscope
Allows a closer look at the latter three decades of P-Orridge’s career, collating a series of conversations undertaken with the Swedish writer, photographer and filmmaker Carl Abrahamsson. Beginning with an interview in 1986 – spanning magic, art theory and gender revolution – to a final conversation in 2019 about living life in the shadow of leukaemia, Sacred Intent offers perhaps the most intimate portrait of the provocative artist yet.
AnOther
This remarkable artist changed things, thinking, people, movements, art, memories, perceptions, culture in general, and so many other things; I cannot think of any other punch-packer of similar stature in the western world of art and esotericism.
- Carl Abrahamsson, Brooklyn Rail
The account of a 40 year friendship with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge reveals the musician's shifting interests and creative philosophies.
- Spenser Thomson, The Wire
demonstrates beyond doubt the artist’s unique knack for wringing symbolism and meaning from sounds that others would miss
- Emily Gosling, Elephant
From the first 1986 fanzine-based interview about current projects, philosophical insights, magical workings, international travels, art theory and gender revolutions, to 2019’s thoughts on life and death in the the shadow of battling leukaemia, Sacred Intent is a unique journey in which the art of conversation blooms to the highest degree.
- Mark Westall, FAD