{"id":7017,"date":"2018-01-05T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=7017"},"modified":"2018-01-05T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T14:23:00","slug":"ron-athey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/ron-athey\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Athey"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5801\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7017-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/ronathey.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/ronathey.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/ronathey.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_7018\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7018\" style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7018 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3668-2.jpg?resize=269%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3668-2.jpg?resize=269%2C300&amp;ssl=1 269w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3668-2.jpg?resize=768%2C857&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3668-2.jpg?resize=696%2C777&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3668-2.jpg?resize=376%2C420&amp;ssl=1 376w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3668-2.jpg?w=785&amp;ssl=1 785w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ron Athey is a Los Angeles-based performance artist, making work since 1980 in the form of solos, company work, and collaborations. His work is aligned with body art, the HIV\/AIDS pandemic era, esoterica, the bloat of opera, and queering Georges Bataille.<\/p>\n<p>Since the 90s he has toured extensively in the USA\/Europe and parts of latin America, receiving commissions from ICA London, Kampnagel Hamburg, and most recently the Mike Kelley Foundation for the upcoming January 25th performance of Gifts of the Spirit, a collaboration with Sean Griffin based on Athey\u2019s childhood Pentecostal memoirs and he and Grirrfin\u2019s mutual interest in Spiritualism, automatism, channeling, and opera. Collectively authored text is generated from the automatic writing with 35 particpants. \u00a0In 2013 Intellect Press published an extensive monograph of his work titled Pleading in the Blood. Additionally, Athey is a visiting lecturer at Roski School\/USC, having just finished a seminar titled \u201cUndergrounds and Avant Gardes\u201d, looking at L.A.-centric undergrounds, starting with the Azusa Street Revival, going through various UFO cults, the legalization of pornography, Hollywood Satan, and the origins of the west coast punk and death rock scenes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7019\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7019\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7019 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/oblitlbj.jpg?resize=696%2C464&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/oblitlbj.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/oblitlbj.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/oblitlbj.jpg?resize=696%2C464&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/oblitlbj.jpg?resize=630%2C420&amp;ssl=1 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Self-Obliteration at Galerija Kapelica, Ljubljana Slovenia 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7020\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7020\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7020\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P7031024.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P7031024.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P7031024.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P7031024.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P7031024.jpg?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P7031024.jpg?resize=265%2C198&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P7031024.jpg?resize=696%2C522&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P7031024.jpg?resize=1068%2C801&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P7031024.jpg?resize=560%2C420&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P7031024.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P7031024.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7020\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Solar Anus at the Hayward Gallery as part of the Undercover Surrealism and the Vision of Georges Bataille show, 2006<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/ronathey.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listRon Athey is a Los Angeles-based performance artist, making work since 1980 in the form of solos, company work, and collaborations. 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