Public Listening: I TRUST PAIN with Richie Culver, Rainy Miller and Genesis P Orridge - Camden Art Centre
Type
Events
Format
In the Building
Date 30 Oct 2025
20:00-22:00
Price Free entry

This event launches I TRUST PAIN, the new album by Richie Culver, published by Fixed Abode and accompanied by a film. Culver explores memory, inheritance and masculinity shaped by class and geography.

I TRUST PAIN combines seven music videos with deteriorated footage of Culver’s childhood hometown and family home. Through stark imagery and sonic intensity, the work examines fragmented memory, paternal absence and the psychic weight of inheritance. It interrogates the pressures on young men within a cultural climate where distorted models of masculinity, such as those promoted by Andrew Tate, continue to circulate.

The videos by Culver, Blackhaine, Allen-Golder Carpenter, Rebecca Salvadori, Max Kreis and SKINTAPE form a fragmented but unified chorus. They resist straightforward autobiography, offering instead a poetics of rupture, haunting and unresolved memory.

The programme also features a live spoken word performance by multi-disciplinary artist Rainy Miller, founder of Fixed Abode. Miller works across music, writing and performance, using rhythm and cadence to connect personal experience with broader cultural critique. Their spoken word extends the themes of I TRUST PAIN, reframing inherited narratives of masculinity and emotional endurance through language, sound and presence.

The event also presents a rare recording of Genesis P-Orridge. Captured at the Swiss Institute, New York, in November 2007, shortly after the passing of their partner and collaborator Lady Jaye Breyer, the performance carries a charged atmosphere. Originally circulated only in a very limited cassette edition, it has never been made available digitally.

 

The Artists

The Artists

Richie Culver is a British artist and musician whose practice moves fluidly between visual work and sound. Conceiving of music as an extension of his visual language, Culver creates emotionally charged, machine-driven compositions that carry the same raw immediacy as his paintings and installations. His collaborations with Moor Mother, Billy Woods, Blackhaine, Rainy Miller, Space Afrika, and Mark Leckey have become central to this process, situating him in conversation with some of the most radical voices in contemporary art and experimental music.

Operating under the alias Quiet Husband, Culver channels his practice into the subterranean worlds of techno and noise. This project pushes his sound into harsher, more physical territories, marked by industrial textures and a visceral energy that translates powerfully in live settings. Performances at Berghain, Tresor, and Berlin Atonal have cemented Quiet Husband as a vehicle for Culver to explore the outer edges of club culture while retaining the emotional intensity that defines his broader artistic output.

Rainy Miller is a multi-disciplinary artist and label head (Fixed Abode), hailing from Preston, England. Subservient to the northern city in which he was born and raised, the region’s near forgotten underbelly is sewn into the fabric of Rainy Miller’s music and motif.

The local Prestonian possesses a seemingly DIY approach to the arts, primarily as a musician, but isn’t bound to the term. Holding a heavily embellished view on context and perspective, Miller hones in on the belief that “technicalities can be learnt, and perspective is something every one of us holds unique; just like DNA.” It’s this belief that sees the artist striving to push the boundaries within contemporary popular music, creating without limiting himself to any given genre.

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson; 22 February 1950 – 14 March 2020) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, performance artist, visual artist and occultist who rose to notoriety as the founder of the COUM Transmissions collective and lead vocalist of the seminal industrial band Throbbing Gristle. They were also a founding member of Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY), and fronted the experimental pop-rock band Psychic TV.