Nine minute video of the performance.
Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey presents the first critical overview of this major artist’s work. It demonstrates how Athey foresaw and precipitated the central place afforded they body and identity politics in art and critical theory in the 1990s and beyond.
The first major survey of the artist’s interdisciplinary practices. Bringing together newly commissioned and other writings by major thinkers in and beyond visual and performance studies, and extensive documentation of the artist’s work from two decades of practice, it navigates through and between performance, biotechnical practices, image-making, and writing.
Super 8 film was made at the Festival de l’Etrange, Vidéotheque de Paris. Produced by Homemade FIlms.
Part of LADA Screens 6.
A specially filmed conversation between Ron Athey and writer Jennifer Doyle. Filmed in LA for LADA Screens by Brittany Neimeth.
Part of LADA Screens 6.
Seminal but rarely seen performance, recorded at Club Lingerie in Los Angeles, California, 1984.The folder also includes a short promotional video.
Part of LADA Screens 8. The film was availble online between 29 March – 11 April 2016 on the LADA Screens Channel.
It examines the ‘performance of extremity’ as practices at the limits of the histories of performance and art, in performance art’s most fertile and prescient decade, the 1970s. Dominic Johnson recounts and analyses game-changing performance events by six artists: Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Genesis P-Orridge, Anne Bean, the Kipper Kids, and Stephen Cripps.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Includes documentation of:
– Someting Tender
– 3 : 3: 3
– For Always
A chronological review of a decade of endeavours by one of the most astute Slovenian projects of contemporary performing arts. The publication with extensive visual material and excerpts from texts documents 29 performances accompanied by Dr Blaž Lukan’s essay Erasing the Audience which analyses the company’s performing strategies.
Because of Love tells the story of the artist’s childhood in Italy in an orphanage and at the hands of his abusive family, his journey to London as a young man, his return to Italy many years later as an accomplished artist, and, in between, the story of his life and loves and his becoming an artist.
A union using violence as a language to express affection.
Publication 'arrived' after participation in a six-day festival curated by ]performance S p a c e[ in 2016.
Thirty-six mini scenarios of torture and execution which transform the small immaculate bodies of fruit into figures that seem to increasingly identify themselves with human beings.
Thirty-six mini scenarios of torture and execution which transform the small immaculate bodies of fruit into figures that seem to increasingly identify themselves with human beings.
Documentation from two performances, presented at Brisbane Arts (2007) and MAJU JAYA Performance Art Festival (2007).
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Links avant-garde performance practices with religious histories in the United States, setting contemporary performances of endurance art within a broader context of prophetic, religious discourse in the United States
Includes:
– Artist bio & CV
– Hermana, 2010, 1'50''
– Himenoplastia, 2004, 7'21''
– Juegos de poder, 2009, 11'10''
– La Verdad, 2013, 1:10'
– Lucha, 2002, 3'38''
– Perra, 2005, 5'31''
A LADA screening programme for the 2016 Venice International Performance Art Week: a collection of documentation and artists’ films looking at pain and performance.
Includes:
Marina Abramovic – On ‘Rhythm O’, 1974, 2013, 3’07” ; Ron Athey – Ron’s Story, 2001, 4’44”; Marcel.Li Antunez Roca – Epizoo, 1994, 8’29; Franko B – Don’t Leave Me This Way, 2009, 5’03”; Wafaa Bilal – On ‘Shoot An Iraqi’, 2007, 2’21”; Rocio Boliver – Times Go By and I Can’t Forget You: Between Menopause and Old Age, 2013, 4’18”; Cassils – The Powers That Be, 2016, 2’24”; Bob Flanagan – Cystic Fibrosis Song, 1990’s 1’32”; Regina Jose Galindo – Lucha, 2002, 3’37”; jamie lewis Hadley – this rose made of leather, 2012, 9’10”; Nicola Hunter & Ernst Fischer – Passion/Flower, 2012, 4’02”; Oleg Kulik – Dog House 1996, 4’10”; Martin O’Brien – Taste of Flesh, 2015, 2’59”; Kira O’Reilly – Wet Cup, 2000, 2’29”; ORLAN – Successful Operation, 1990, 6’16”; Petr Pavlensky – Radical Artist In Court – Ukraine Today News Item, 2015, 1’57”
Theoretical and creative interventions into the presence of the animal and ideas of animality in performance.
Enrique Metinides's choice of the 101 key images from his life photographing crime scenes and accidents in Mexico for local newspapers and the nota roja (or red pages, for their bloody content) crime press. An accompanying exhibition, which launched at Rencontres d'Arles in July 2011, toured to venues in Europe and the Americas.
Ron Athey contributes to the fourth installment of the Walker Art Center Artist Op-Eds series. Examining the thinking of artists as citizens and change-makers, this series of commissioned opinion pieces features provocative reactions to the headlines.
The artist shares insights of her performance-making.
Short review of exhibition. Text in Italian with images of works by the artists.
Exerpt of 2002 multi-media performance with 3 screen large format video with 4 actors.
Investigates the extent to which performance can represent the ‘unrepresentable’ of trauma.
Regina Jose Galindo dencounces violence women and, more generally, the social, political and cultural violence of contemporary society.
Overview of 'unseen' works by Ana Mendieta
*currently unavailable*
An overview of Mendieta's work published to accompany Galerie Lelong's exhibition 8 September – 8 October 2011. Photographs, film stills, critical texts and interviews.
Male Trouble explores how Wetern masculinity has increasingly appeared as a troubled gender category in recent times, using a variety of performative case studies. Includes a chapter on work by Ron Athey and Franko B.
Collection of texts on Actionism in Vienna, including biographies and images.
Shit, piss, blood, sweat and tears is a new Study Room Guide compiled by Lois Keidan on the theme of bodily functions in performance. The Guide consists of notes from Lois Keidan's presentation for Blackmarket No 11 2008, with added images and recommendations for further research and study
For more on Niko Raes’ work, go to www.bodyrefuse.be. Niko Raes is an Antwerp-based artist. Working with his own body in Live Art, Photography, Video and sculpture.
This item is part of the Study Room Guide On shit, piss, blood, sweat and tears by Lois Keidan (P2195)
Leibniz, together with a host of guest artists, presents The Book of Blood, an ongoing performance and multi-performative experience that explores issues relating human rights and (dis)enfranchisement whilst aiming to facilitate the spectator’s active contribution in participation. Each visitor is invited to donate a drop of blood to be used as ink in the writing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into a thick, leather-bound book. This video and photographs are taken from PSI 12, Queen Mary, 2006. Includes a performance leaflet/document.
Series of photographs documenting some of the works of German-born, London-based performance artist Ernst Fischer: Brixton Heart Room (in collaboration with Franko B); The Book of Dust (in collaboration with Manuel Vason); The Art of (Self-)Service; Remains of the Day. Includes a list of images with titles.
Documentation of DIY 9: 2012 project. A Five-Day Surgery on the practicalities and functionalities of working with the body. ‘The Body as Art’ puts 6 artists & 2 theorists into the company of a Doctor – Dr Tuheen Hudan – and an experienced artist – Michael Mayhew – to talk / enquire / investigate the functionality and practicalities of working with the body within a performative context.
Franko B' performance Work monograph with essays by Lois Keidan and Stuart Morgan, photos by Nicholas Sinclair. This item is part of the Study Room Guide On shit, piss, blood, sweat and tears by Lois Keidan (P2195)
Ron Athey 5 April 1998
Portfolio of films and performances.
This anthology of essays, images and dialogues exploring contemporary art’s engagements with risk–physical, social, political and aesthetic–brings readers into the conference from which the book takes its title, a third annual collaboration between the Getty Research Institute and the Southern California Consortium of Art Schools (SoCCAS).
This film is part of the Agency’s ‘Documentation Bank’ Collection, which consists of an extensive range of artists’ ‘Talking Heads’ films, documentation of artists’ works and a selection of Agency projects: http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/resources/collections/documentation-bank.
Part of the ‘Documentation Bank’ Collection, an extensive range of artists’ ‘Talking Heads’, documentation of key works, and a selection of Agency projects: http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/resources/collections/documentation-bank.