Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti will perform a selection of live remixes from the band’s last album, unfinished at the time of Peter Christopherson’s death in 2010.
The performance of the album – a “cover” of Nico’s Desertshore LP – will take place at the AV Festival in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, next month, as part of an event called Wishful Thinking: In Remembrance of Peter Christopherson.
In summer 2010, AV Festival commissioned Christopherson to compose a work for the 2012 spring Equinox, to be staged at Durham Cathedral, where his father was University Vice-Chancellor from 1960–1979. Christopherson died before he could complete the work; instead, three “performance sketches” of the work will be presented by Christopherson’s original collaborators for the commission: visual artist Alex Rose, celebrated sound recordist Chris Watson and vocalist Attila Csihar (Sunn O))), Burial Chamber Trio, etc).
In addition to the two live performances, there’ll be screenings of Philippe Garrel’s The Inner Scar (the film for which Desertshore was the soundtrack and inspiration) and Derek Jarman’s The Angelic Conversation, for which Coil created the soundtrack.
Throbbing Gristle recorded three days of public sessions for Desertshore at London’s ICA back in 2007; a selection of material from these sessions was released that same year in a limited edition 12xCD-R box set, entitled The Desertshore Installation. Peter Christopherson had been working on the album at the time of his death in 2010; Carter and Tutti then took it upon themselves to finish the work, without the aid of TG’s other founding member, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, who left the band in November 2009.
The Wishful Thinking event will take place on Saturday March 17, 8pm–12am. Further details and ticket information available here.