Visiting artist | Ron Athey

Ron Athey has been working at the vanguard of performance art for 25 years. Self-taught, his work developed out of post-punk/pre-goth scenes and begins with Premature Ejaculation (PE), an early 1980s collaboration with Rozz Williams. In the 1990s, Athey formed a company of performers and made Torture Trilogy, a series of works that addressed the AIDS pandemic directly through memorializing and philosophical reflection. Currently Athey is presenting Acephalous Monster, a performance with projections, readings, lectures, appropriated text and sound. The work is an attempt to make sense of a reality where neo-fascism is mutating, creeping and marching.

This talk is made possible in part by the Turner Theatrical Design Fund.