Queer Communion - Ron Athey

Amelia Jones, Andy Campbell

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English

Intellect
15 May 2020

Performance art; Films, movies & cinema; Television

Ron Athey is one of the most important, prolific, and influential performance artists of the past four decades. A singular example of lived creativity, his radical performances are odds with the art worlds and art marketplaces that have increasingly dominated contemporary art and performance art over the period of his career.

Queer Communion, an exploration of Athey’s career, refuses the linear narratives of art discourse and instead pays homage to the intensities of each mode of Athey’s performative practice and each community he engages. Emphasizing the ephemeral and largely uncollectible nature of his work, the book places Athey’s own writing at its center, turning to memoir, memory recall, and other modes of retrieval and narration to archive his performances.

In addition to documenting Athey’s art, ephemera, notes, and drawings, the volume features commissioned essays, concise “object lessons” on individual objects in the Athey archive, and short testimonials by friends and collaborators by contributors including Dominic Johnson, Amber Musser, Julie Tolentino, Ming Ma, David Getsy, Alpesh Patel, and Zackary Drucker, among others. Together they form Queer Communion, a counter history of contemporary art.

By: Amelia Jones, Andy Campbell
Imprint: Intellect
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781789380941
ISBN 10: 1789380944
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 15 May 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments – Amelia Jones and Andy Campbell Prelude – Amelia Jones and Andy Campbell Introduction: Queer Communion and the Worlds of Ron Athey – Amelia Jones Writing Athey – Amelia Jones Previously Published – Unless otherwise noted, text entirely by Ron Athey Unpublished – From the Ron Athey archive Reflections The Alchemist: Ron Athey – Lisa Teasley Anatomy of a Revival – Karen Gonzalez Rice The Right to Bleed in Public: On Premature Ejaculation – Leon J. Hilton “A Poetry of Meaningful Experience”: Miss Velma Jaggers’s Stagecraft, Fisting, and Ron Athey’s Miraculous Acts – Andy Campbell Ron Athey Rolls Deep – Lisa Newman The Beauty of the Dork – Vaginal Davis and Ron Athey, reprint from LA Weekly big brother/big sister – Cesar Padilla AIDS, Athey, and Culture War – Jonathan D. Katz An Unruly Archive By Each of Us Towards Each of Us… – Julie Tolentino Father Daughter Love – Zackary Drucker Athey-ism – Bruce LaBruce Divine Fire: Ron Athey in Europe – Dominic Johnson The Light of Night – Lia Gangitano Object Lessons Codpiece – Amelia Jones HIV Lifecycle Model – Andy Campbell Honcho – David Getsy “Rod ‘n’ Bob” (Arrested Intimacies of the Flesh) – Amber Jamilla Musser Leigh Bowery Cape – Alpesh Kantilal Patel Resonate/Obliterate (or, Untitled [Dear Ron]) – Ming-Yuen S. Ma “Raised in the Lord” – Jennifer Doyle General Checklist – Amelia Jones Ron Athey Timeline – Ana Briz and Andy Campbell Index

Amelia Jones is the Robert A. Day Professor and Vice Dean of Research at the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California. She is the author of many books, including Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts and the coedited anthologies Perform Repeat Record: Live Art in History and Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories. Andy Campbell is assistant professor of critical studies at the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Queer X Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ and the forthcoming Bound Together: Leather, Sex, Archives and Contemporary Art.

Reviews for Queer Communion - Ron Athey

'This charming and disarming homage to a unique figure provides a backbone to the kinds of invasive physical performance for which Ron Athey is best known. [...] It lives and breathes, creating a well-rounded sense both of a life's work to date and of the man himself. Fans of Athey's work, or certainly anyone with an interest in the kinds of experimental performance artists who came punctured and bleeding out of the early 90s will find a great deal of thoughtful, thought-provoking content here.' -- Keri O'Shea, Trebuchet Magazine 'A Bible-sized tumble through [Athey's] many nuances, chalking up his impact on Modern Primitive body art, HIV/AIDS activism, Los Angeles performance art, the '90s culture wars, death rock and post-punk music scenes, independent publishing, and gay pornography. [...] The 'Writing Athey' chapters are undoubtedly the crown jewel of this collection, as it occasions the artist's boundless humor and depth free rein on a number of topics. Athey's voice rings with alacrity. Its pithy, informed, and sometimes bitchy frankness is unpretentious and singular. [...] The personal revelation of this Communion is an important one. And it's the humanism that this collection so indelibly registers. [...] Queer Communion has a crush on a man who makes work out of all of the cultural cosmologies around him. It reads like a series of love affairs, a 439-page cruising diary through one of the most garrulous, affectionate, and deeply misunderstood practitioners working today. Queer Communion recalls that good old adage about the devil - like her, Miss Athey shimmers in the details.' -- Bradford Nordeen, Los Angeles Review of Books 'Queer Communion [is] full of longing, thick with affect, and dense with erudition... [It] attests to the fact that, for many, the work Athey stages with and through his body becomes bound to the complex and singular unfolding of their intimate lives.' -- Kimberly Lamm, Journal of Visual Culture