The New Social Environment#259
Queer Communion: Ron Athey with Amelia Jones
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Artist Ron Athey joins art historian and professor Amelia Jones for a conversation. We’ll conclude with a poetry reading by Andrea Abi-Karam.
In this talk
Ron Athey
![Ron Athey, Acephalous Monster, 2019, MoCA Skopje. Photo: Andreja Kargačin. [The artist Ron Athey, wearing a minotaur mask, is seated in a shallow box of viscous fluids under a blacklight in shades of blue, white, and pink, covered in drippy fluids.]](../../../../../media/files/acephalousminotaurfaveskopje.png?nf_resize=fit&w=250 "Ron Athey, Acephalous Monster, 2019, MoCA Skopje. Photo: Andreja Kargačin. [The artist Ron Athey, wearing a minotaur mask, is seated in a shallow box of viscous fluids under a blacklight in shades of blue, white, and pink, covered in drippy fluids.]")
(b. 1961) identifies as a self-taught artist, having, since 1980, life of experience in Los Angeles post-punk performance scenes. He has collaborated with performers, visual artists, and opera directors, participated in philosophy seminars, and has visiting artist teaching history at Cal Arts, Roski, UCLA, and Queen Mary University, London. Recent projects include, among others, Acephalous Monster at Performance Space NY, as well as community-based projects such as Gifts of the Spirit, a collectively authored automatic writing opera. Athey has received numerous grants and fellowships, most recently the Harpo Foundation Fellowship 2021. Upcoming projects include a live art/video production in collaboration with Hermes Pittakos, The Asclepeion.
Amelia Jones
Art historian, critic, and curator Amelia Jones is the Robert A. Day Professor and Vice Dean of Academics & Research in Roski School of Art & Design at USC. Amelia is the curator of the critically acclaimed exhibition Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago’s ‘Dinner Party’ in Feminist Art History at the Hammer Museum and most recently Queer Communion: Ron Athey at Participant, Inc., New York and ICA, Los Angeles. Recent publications include In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance (Routledge Press, 2021), the anthology Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories (Manchester University Press, 2016), and Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts (Routledge Press, 2012).
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we’re fortunate to have Andrea Abi-Karam reading.
Andrea Abi-Karam
Andrea Abi-Karam is a trans, arab-american punk poet-performer cyborg. They are the author of EXTRATRANSMISSION (Kelsey Street Press, 2019) and with Kay Gabriel, they co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2020). Their second book, Villainy (Nightboat Books, Sept 2021) reimagines militant collectivity in the wake of the Ghost Ship Fire and the Muslim Ban. They are currently working on a poet’s novel about crushes.
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