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COUM Transmissions

British music and performance art collective
Organization artist_collective Q1137000

Facts

9 properties

Identity

Instance of
artist collective

Status and dates

Inception
1969[7]
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date
1976[8]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 1976 GND (DNB) 1978 edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗

Industry and activity

Field of work
performance art[2]

People

Founder
Genesis P-Orridge[5]
More facts +4
Notable work
Prostitution[3]
Country of origin
United Kingdom[6]
Has works in the collection
Groninger Museum[9]
Influenced by
Dada[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en COUM Transmissions de COUM Transmissions fr Coum transmissions fr Coum Transmissions ja COUMトランスミッションズ ja クーム・トランスミッション ja クーム・トランスミッションズ zh COUM變速器
🔖 Identifiers · 9
ISNI
0000000472062112
VIAF cluster ID
132879433
Library of Congress authority ID
no2004077744
GND ID
7679234-1
Discogs artist ID
270562
Freebase ID
/m/02sytp
MusicBrainz artist ID
aef5a665-9ec9-4963-99fa-6f265baa0f8d
Muziekweb performer ID
M00000197752
Yale LUX ID
group/1afab6d1-e85e-47cc-a616-bb7f98840c9d
📚 Sources · 1
  • GND (DNB) as of 2026-09-30 · 1 statement · CC0 1.0 DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.

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United Kingdom 2026-09-30 GND (DNB) (CC0 1.0) as of 2026-09-30
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Source
GND (DNB)
Edition
20260930 · as of 2026-09-30 · newer edition 20261105 landed
Licence
CC0 1.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
← Mb:member of band 3
Genesis P-Orridge, Peter Christopherson, Cosey Fanni Tutti
← Member of 2
Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti
Country of origin 1
United Kingdom
Field of work 1
performance art
Founder 1
Genesis P-Orridge
Influenced by 1
Dada
Instance of 1
artist collective
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Summary

COUM Transmissions is an artist collective[1].

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United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . online collection of the Groninger Museum. Retrieved . groningermuseum.nl. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 7
    Wikipedia languages → ['ca', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'it']
    GND ID → 7679234-1
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 9w ago · Hannolans · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +1969-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Influenced by → Dada
    Founded by → —
    Instance of → artist collective
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has works in the collection: Groninger Museum, groninger museum ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/c5a6d992c4b|details]])"
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