My latest @ron-athey.bsky.social art piece acquisition arrived in the mail today. It’s a “Blood Relic” with thorn and UV ooze and a t-shirt! For more info: 👇🏼 www.ronathey.org/athey-websho...
Ron Athey
@ron-athey.bsky.social
Performance artist, I also write, facilitate workshops and practice structural bodywork in Los Angeles
Breakfast this morning with Stelarc! And Samar 🩵🩵🩵 Zinque dtla 💦👂🏽🩵
"Athey and Escobar’s Mouth Full of Spirits, a performance for “Speaking in Tongues,” ... several eternities not just in a day but in a single hour in which matter and spirit were indivisible and undeniable, in which we ourselves became the transmutable living material that constituted the work."💗
Matters of Spirit: Two Los Angeles Exhibitions Attempt to Locate the Spiritual in Contemporary Art
The shows at the Hammer and ICA LA attempt to find the connection between art and spirit, but neither manages to capture the divine.
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bringing back the Bloody Disgrace t-shirt ;) $25 for hard times, put these to rest a few years ago but its time to for this reverse piss take from a Glasgow exploitation headline. Thank you for the support and please take my challenge to post a scandalous pic in your tee, chop it up!
bloody Disgrace Tee — Ron Athey
Tabloid exploitation from Glasgow turned into a tee, owning it! Best seller I put to rest a few years ago and today felt like the right time to relaunch. I’ll add the photograph this was a doctored p...
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This is an exhaustive history of Silver Lake gay past that even I didn't know all! I did know [Teddy Sandoval's] Butch Gardens (early 70s) was in what became the ON club. I lived most of my life in the slake until boring gentrification booted my ares out. Resentful to read but I enjoyed memory lane.
Ask Silver Lake — Golden Age Silver Lake Gay Bars and Other Third Places
This piece was originally written for “Ask Silver Lake.” “Ask Silver Lake” is dedicated to exploring the history and insights of our community. If you have questions or ideas you’d like u…
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50 years ago today Throbbing Gristle performed live for the first time. 'COUM' was Cosey Fanni Tutti and her individual action 'Womans Roll'.
Chuffed to be in this show with a list of my top 10! 💗💗💗 Chicago! Sad I gave a performance in LA the same night as the opening but will try to make the closing do 🖤🖤🖤
In 1992 I wrote my dear Cliff Diller's obituary. in the spirit of having sexuality with AIDS, I wrote about him sucking cock hours before he died! in line with this is the artist Connie Samaras writing about being sexual with Kathy Acker hours before she died, would love to know more examples! 1)
Summer of 1978 I worked in this Louis Kahn compound - the Jonas Salk Institute! From Pentecostal prodigy biochemistry major in high school! I was excommunicated by my family for choosing science but discovered beneath this, 2.5 miles of the nudist Blacks Beach, from suburbia track houses to this!
Women's Cruise 2023 Show | LOUIS VUITTON
YouTube video by Louis Vuitton
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3 Ron Atheys and Linda, RIP to younger R and Linda. I wasn't raised by Ron (nor my mother), we met at the moment of this pic taken by CESAR PADILLA, and we tried but for me it was too little too late. (but also, who are you, George Foreman? who happened to name all five of his sons George Foreman).
Greg Burk's recount and interview with Johanna Went 💗🥀 www.metaljazz.com/2026/06/even...
Event and interview: Johanna Went Fashion Show at The Box, June 6, 2026. (MetalJazz)
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W. B. Yeats #BOTD and Aleister Crowley were magical rivals. Crowley was jealous of Yeats’ success as a poet and author. Crowley once tried to storm Golden Dawn HQ wielding daggers. Yeats and Crowley shouted spells at each other, and Crowley tumbled down the stairs. Yeats Golden Dawn notebook
My fave LA Chinatown bar, Evangeline Swamp Room, I found is named after the burlesque queen Evangeline The Oyster Girl. Kitty mentored, and one of her later girls, Jane Blevin performed this act at Vaginal Davis and I's club G.I.M.P.ultd in 1999 💗 now my very fave! littlejewel.net/the-evangeli...
Saturday June 6, please join us for the closing event of the Box LA Gallery, a Johanna Went Fashion Show with Asher Hartman (I'll be walking a Went construction!), she is my original and always inspiration! also included a flyer from a late 70s gig with Sun Ra! 💗 this'll be the send off 🥀
Happy Birthday to the one and only Lydia Lunch 🖤🖤🖤 at Sister Alberta King’s Nee Orleans 1990 💘
one of the 3 mummified "sick men" from my performance Martyrs&Saints, staged at ExTeresa CDMX in 1995, back to back with 4Scenes and Deliverance (the entire AIDS triptych in 6 hour event performed in two chapels and the courtyard walls/ruins bordering Templo Mayor).
This YouTube video from a 90s Southbank show is hard to find on a search but it just surfaced. I'm particularly taken at 2:00 with Dr. Sarah Wilson's use of language ("outrageously camp") describing Crivelli's Sebastian! 💗💗
CPR-3: Ron Athey: On Paintings and Performance
YouTube video by DPSVideoLibrary
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder makes Hanna Schygulla float during an appearance in the 1970s show "Stars in der Manege"
Second draft done. You, my pretties, get to read it next summer from WW Norton and Pushkin Press.
hamboning ;) prepping for tonights performance with Carmina Escobar and working on the nerves! vocal duet, minimal acoustic instrumentation and lots of non-lingual vocals, ICA LA at 8pm!
KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS. Director’s Cut. Restored and Remastered. In Theaters October 16.
next friday Carmina and I are presenting Mouth Full ;) ICA-LA
"Mouth Full of Spirits" by Ron Athey and Carmina Escobar - Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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My collage of Divinity as Executioner, with Egerton MS as backdrop. They haven’t been well the past year, this performance at HR Chinatown was profound ❤️🔥
Saturday I'm part of the 1pm panel discussion on Steven Arnold's Zanzibar studio salons! 6 hours of events including a keynote from Jarrett Earnest. Come to the Shirley Temple House in Santa Monica!
Steven Arnold's Sex & Spirit Symposium | Del Vaz Projects
Presented by Del Vaz Projects in partnership with ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, Los Angeles GLBT Historical Society Museum, San Francisco & Visual AIDS, New York Entry $15 | Free for students...
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Finally announced and taking reservations at the ICA LA, pleased to be a live component of the Speaking in Tongues exhibition up now. Galleries will be open up to the start of performance. If you're in LA and need this please book soon.
Friday at the Getty for PA Museum's High Performance Magazine flashback, LA is giving this week! Tuesday I'm in the Bay to take Linda's workshop, feeling fortunate to spend time 💗
Tomorrow night for April Fool's Day, I'm co-hosting this event Pippa Plays the Fool for the late great Pippa Garners. this is a fundraiser to the in-development Pippa Garner Foundation, merch and reasonable $15 ticket for the video screening all go to the cause. Foxy Moron! join us if yer in LA!
Pippa Plays the Fool
Now Instant Image Hall is a cinema and bookstore
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