Between 2018 and 2020, Cosey Fanni Tutti composed the soundtrack for Caroline Catz’s feature film Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes, describing it as “a phantom collaboration, an exchange of ideas across time.” A few years later, she published Re-Sisters: The Lives & Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe & Cosey Fanni Tutti, a profound meditation on womanhood, creativity, and defiance across generations. Tutti’s connection to Delia Derbyshire’s legacy remains vibrant, most recently embodied in the track “Threnody” on her latest album, dedicated to both Derbyshire and her artist friend Andy Christian. Christian created an abstract drawing of the same name during an improvised evening where Derbyshire, singing softly, intoned the drawing as if it were a musical score.
Drawing from the IMAI – Inter Media Art Institute archives, this evening will delve into Tutti’s groundbreaking role at the intersections of industrial sound, video art, and feminist collaboration. It will trace how her practice unsettles conventional hierarchies of authorship and genre, weaving together performance, electronic experimentation, and feminist critique to forge a living dialogue across time. This dialogue challenges the marginalization of women’s creative labor and reimagines collaboration as a radical, intergenerational act of resistance and renewal.
> Screening, listening session, and hybrid artist talk
This event is part of the program "When the World Went Out of Tune with Itself."
