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About Me

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"Terror unendingly renews with advancing age. Without end, it returns us to the beginning. The beginning that I glimpse on the edge of the grave is the pig in me which neither death nor insult can kill. Terror on the edge of the grave is divine and I sink into the terror whose child I am." --Georges Bataille, My Mother

My Interests

Performance, Live Art and Icons: Reza Abdoh, Marina Abromavic, Lee Adams, Buck Angel, Franko B., Marissa Carnesky, COUM Transmissions, Emilio Cuibero, Dumb Type, Empress Stah, VALIE EXPORT, Karen Finley, Bob Flanagan, La Fura dels Baus, Matthias Herrmann, Dominic Johnson, Judy LaBruce, Selene Luna, Paul McCarthy, Pierre Molinier, Mouse, Fakir Musafar, Orlan, Gina Pane, Lazlo Pearlman, Kembra Pfahler, Kira O'Reilly, Osseus Labyrint, Sheree Rose, Rachel Rosenthal, Carolee Schneeman, Juliana Snapper, Annie Sprinkle, SRL, Stellarc, Julie Tolentino, Velvet Hammer, Johanna Went, Hannah Wilke, Rozz Williams, David Wojnarowicz

I'd like to meet:

Coming in 2008:June/July: double bill with Julie Tolentino in Los Angeles (looking for venue)*August 15-25, Ron Athey and Julie Tolentino will be facilitating a 10-day-long performance bootcamp-style workshop in Joshua Tree, CA. For colleagues and students making performance/live art. More info to come soon. *Oct. 1-7: Self-Oblit in Ottawa, Montreal, Canada, and Rouyn-Noranda Biennial (Judas Cradle opera with Juliana Snapper) *late Oct: Warsaw, Poland (more info to come)Nov. 25-27: seminar at Cendeac, Murcia, Spain *Jan. 2009: Berlin (more into to come)May 2009: Visions of Excess, Spill Festival, London (still pending)

Music:

Lydia Lunch, Juliana Snapper, Monteverdi, Wagner, TG, Coil, Yoko Ono, Patti Smith, Crass (eve libertine), PJ Harvey, Brian Eno, Miss Peggy Lee, Cabaret Voltaire, Creatures, Sylvester, Alessandro Moreschi, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Dusty Springfield, Nina Simone, Scott Walker, LeadBelly, Maria Callas...

Movies:

anything by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jack Smith, Kenneth Anger, some Almadovar (Talk to Her), oldies like Sunset Blvd., Suddenly Last Summer, Reflections in a Golden Eye, non-movies like Sextette! Hertzog's Heart of Glass

Television:

Well, don't have a TV but have OZ series on DVD. Guilty pleasure: get overstimulated watching Buffy re-reruns on hotel TV when travelling.

Books:

Bit of a Francophile with Georges Bataille, Jean Genet, Roland Barthes, Andre Gide, Camus (both Albert & Renaud), Celine, etc. Also sick and queer classics like Burroughs, Baldwin, Acker, Winterson, DeLillo. Amelia Jones, Susan Sontag, Patrick Califia. I hyperventilate through good biographies and scan theory.

Heroes:

David Wojnarowicz, Pierre Molinier, Johanna Went, Felix Gonzalez Torres, VALIE EXPORT, Jean Genet

My Blog

video at MIX NYC: Homocult & Other Esoterotica

HOMOCCULT & OTHER ESOTEROTICA Curated by Daniel McKernan & Richie Renntat MIX NYC - Queer Experimental Film Festivalhttp://www.mixnyc.org/Saturday // November 17th, 2007 // &...
Posted by RON ATHEY on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:00:00 PST

Q&A with Juliana Snapper + underwater opera announcement

July 14th 7 pm Palm Springs Swimming Pool = La Scala + Jacques Cousteau ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> This Saturday, July 14, at 7 p.m. - Juliana S...
Posted by RON ATHEY on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:51:00 PST

DVD of "The Monster in the Night of the Labyrinth" performance event at Hayward Gallery

The Monster in the Night of the Labyrinth DVD available now The DVD from 'The Monster in the Night of the Labyrinth' performance event, reflecting on the dark vision of Georges Bataille, commissioned...
Posted by RON ATHEY on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:02:00 PST

End of April-June 07 UK Tour

Incorruptible Flesh: Perpetual Wound, collaboration with Dominic Johnson at Chelsea Theatre, London and Fierce Festival, Birmingham. Commissioned by the Chelsea as a solo performance with a mentoring...
Posted by RON ATHEY on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:53:00 PST

My essay (draft) for Matthias Herrman's photography book, Hotel 4

Erectus AbominasDear Mister, your image, these images, fill me with many feelings of pleasure and solidarity. But for the sake of getting into you and not polluting your visuals with my disease, I wil...
Posted by RON ATHEY on Wed, 09 May 2007 06:04:00 PST

Review of Athey's Western-Project gallery show from Artscene

RON ATHEYSeptember 14 - October 28, 2006 at Western Project, Culver Cityby John O'Brien Performance artist Ron Athey has long been known for his challenging, sexually explicit and very extreme art wo...
Posted by RON ATHEY on Wed, 09 May 2007 05:53:00 PST

Essay (draft) for Manuel Vason's new book, Encounters

"In terms of image-repertoire, the Photograph (the one I intend) represents that very subtle moment when, to tell the truth, I am neither subject nor object but a subject who feels he is becoming an o...
Posted by RON ATHEY on Wed, 09 May 2007 05:45:00 PST

Feature in Organ magazine (London)

A feature in ORGAN magazine from London.... Here's the start and the link... ..> RON ATHEY is without question an exhortation, an inspiration, he is also a conduit. He says he is programmed to car...
Posted by RON ATHEY on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 07:51:00 PST