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On 18 October 1976, a small audience gathered at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London to, as they believed, witness a performance piece by COUM Transmissions, the art group comprising Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti at its core. COUM Transmissions formed in 1968 and was profoundly influenced by Dada and the international art movement, Fluxus. COUM’s final performance was part of the infamous Prostitution exhibition that shocked audiences with bandages, tampons, bottles of blood as props, and pornographic images enlarged onto posters: the exhibition quickly gained notoriety with Fleet Street editors and led to the artists being denounced as “wreckers of civilization” in Parliament. Since their inception, COUM Transmissions had attracted some attention for their extreme performances although their influence— until Prostitution—had been limited.