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There is a man, who used to go by the name of Niel-Megson. Now he is called Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, pronounced like Pee-Oriddge, and he no longer looks much like a man.  He is a musician and artist who was interested in all paranormal things. He is relevant to New York because his entire life's work is on display in an art gallery on the Lower East Side called Invisible-Exports.

      This exhibit was brought to my attention through an article in New York magazine. This article caught my attention because it was titled "I Am My Own Wife".  This phrase perfectly sums up the last 10 years of this artist's life. What is so fascinating about him is that in the early 2000s, he set out on a mission with his second wife, Jacqueline Breyer, to create from themselves, in their own words, a "unified pandrogynous being".  According to the exhibit, this idea stemmed from William S. Burroughs's theory of cutting up reality. P-Orridge applied this technique to his artwork, music and then finally to his life. By creating one being out of him and his wife, they intended to morph and "cut-up" reality. 

But I still haven't explained how they unified themselves. In theory they became the same person. In practice, P-Orridge got a set of breast implants, collagen injections, face restructuring and permanent makeup, so that he and his wife looked almost identical. They would wear the same outfits and copy each other's mannerisms.  They did not refer to themselves individually anymore, it was always “we”. And although it sounds weird (in my opinion it is), they apparently loved each other so much that they wanted to "eat each other up and become one being". Sadly, his wife died in 2007, but she continues to live on within “them”.

If this isn't artwork in New York City, then I don't know what is.

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