Event overview
"Pleading in the Blood": Performance artist RON ATHEY in conversation with Dominic Johnson, as part of the Visual Cultures Public Programme.
"Pleading in the Blood" will explore key themes in Ron Athey's performance practice, and in contemporary performance more generally. Athey and Johnson will discuss some of the achievements of compiling and editing Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey, the first book on the artist's work, which will be published in 2013.
RON ATHEY has been making and presenting performances since his first collaborations with Rozz Williams in Los Angeles in 1981. Athey rose to international prominence during the US culture wars of the early 1990s, when a section of his ensemble piece Four Scenes in a Harsh Life (1994) captured the attention of right-wing legislators. Athey's works including the series The Torture Trilogy (1993-95) Incorruptible Flesh (1997-2008), and Self-Obliteration I-III (2007-2012) have toured internationally.
DOMINIC JOHNSON is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture (2012) and Theatre & the Visual (2012); and editor of Franko B: Blinded by Love (2006), and Manuel Vason: Encounters (2007). Two edited books are forthcoming in 2013: Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey; and Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK.
Dates & times
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10 Jan 2013 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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