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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(Reblogged from tagzeen)

Issue No. 175: THE HOMOCCULT SHOW (Excerpted Works & Stills)

Click here to view program, trailer and press kits.

Ron Athey

Issue No. 121: Ron Athey's Book

Pleading in the Blood: The Art of Ron Athey


Dear all,

Your kind support is requested towards a major publication dedicated to our good friend and long-term Kaos collaborator, pioneering and influential performance artist, Ron Athey.

This will be the first ever publication devoted to the work of Ron Athey, a central figure in the development of performance art since the 1980s.

While histories of art, performance, theatre, and queer/punk/industrial subcultures have consistently acknowledged Athey’s major contribution to the development of contemporary culture, there has never been a dedicated book about him. Pleading in the Blood aims to fill this conspicuous gap.

Pleading in the Blood will be edited by Dominic Johnson and co-published in 2012 by the Live Art Development Agency (UK) and The MIT Press (USA).

The Live Art Development Agency and MIT Press have already raised two thirds of the publication’s budget. However, we believe that Pleading in the Blood merits the highest possible standards and be as richly illustrated and as lavishly produced as possible. Your support will strongly enhance those production values and will be a crucially needed step in meeting the collective vision for the book.

Signed copies of the book and signed Ron Athey prints are available in return for donations.
For more information or to make a contribution please visit:
http://www.indiegogo.com/Pleading-in-the-Blood-The-Art-of-Ron-Athey
The deadline for donations is Dec 31


- Lee Adams

Issue No. 29: VISIONS OF EXCESS DVD

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Unbound x Eds. Lee Adams and Ron Athey

Visions of Excess was a non-stop, 12 hour voyage into the heart of darkness, a communion with the ragged spirit of Georges Bataille, exploring the philosophers key themes of death, eroticism and the forbidden. This DVD features documentation from Visions of Excess London. Easter Sunday, 2009. Commissioned by SPILL Festival.

Curated by Ron Athey and Lee Adams, and hosted by David Hoyle the event featured live performances, installations, film screenings and DJs. This dvd features excerpts from work by Lee Adams, Ron Athey, Franko B, Gio Black Peter, Bruce La Bruce, Christophe Chemin, Peter Christopherson, Zackary Drucker, Flawless Sabrina, Dominic Johnson, Mouse, Kira O'Reilly, L.Gabrielle Penabaz, Lazlo Pearlman, SmaxXx, Suka Off, Samantha Sweeting, Julie Tolentino and Veenus Vortex.

Every purchase from CultureLabel helps to support the arts. Our partner art galleries, museum shops and independent stores work with us to ensure that the price you pay is the same as if you were to buy direct.

Order here: VISIONS OF EXCESS.

In case you are unfamiliar with the Visions of Excess events, there is documentation on Lee Adams site.