Issue No. 235: Pleading in the Blood

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Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
T|A|G is excited to announce the publication this summer of the first book devoted to the seminal and influential performance artist Ron Athey.

Edited by Dominic Johnson, Pleading in the Blood includes three newly commissioned essays on different aspects of Athey’s work by Adrian Heathfield, Amelia Jones, and Dominic Johnson. These scholarly essays are complemented by shorter texts by Homi K. Bhabha, Jennifer Doyle, Tim Etchells, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Matthew Goulish, Lydia Lunch, Juliana Snapper, Julie Tolentino, Alex Binnie, Catherin (Saalfield) Gund, Bruce LaBruce and Catherine Opie. The book will also include Athey’s own writings, including new pieces and hard-to-find archival texts
Pleading in the Blood is lavishly illustrated with full-colour images by photographers including Catherine Opie, Manuel Vason, Elyse Regher, Slava Mogutin, Dona Ann McAdams, Bruce LaBruce, Rick Castro, Sheree Rose, Edward Colver, Jennifer Precious Finch, and others.
Antony Hegarty (Antony and the Johnsons) has written a foreword to the publication.
Launch events will be announced soon.
Front cover image courtesy of Regis Hertrich, from Athey’s Solar Anus at The Hayward Gallery, London. Curated by Lee Adams for the Undercover Surrealism exhibition (2006).
Intellect Live is a new collaboration between Intellect Books and the Live Art Development Agency dedicated to influential artists working at the edges of performance.
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Issue No. 234: Lee Adams will guest-curate TAG E-Zine

Lee Adams as Minotaur

Lee Adams is a London based artist / curator / promoter and DJ.

For the past 25 years Lee Adams has been living and working in the fecund, esoterotic cracks between performance art and night culture, philosophy and dissidence. From strip clubs, tunnels, pissoirs, power stations and slaughterhouses to palaces, churches, galleries, opera houses, theatres and ruins, from New York to Naples and Berlin to the Mohave Desert he has staged elaborate acts of defiance, excess and abandon. He has collaborated with a wide range of maverick artists including Ron Athey, Vaginal Davies, Bruce LaBruce, Kira O'Rielly, Peter Christopherson, Franko B, Manuel Vason, Gio Black Peter, Julie Tolentino, Slava Mogutin and Brian Kenny, Othon Mataragas, Ernesto Tomasini and Hector De Gregorio.

Lee will guest curate for TAG (tagzeen.com) from Monday 2/18 - 2/24.

Photo: Predrag Pajdic