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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

London workshop with hypnotherapist Michele Occelli and myself, Nov. 11-15, doing my season in Peckham! Join us for exploring making new work, daily group hypnosis practice, movement, lectures, strategies beyond the cultural gatekeepers.

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constructing phenomena [iii]: an intensive workshop with Ron Athey & Michele Occelli (2026) — Future Ritual

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

my hair-brush opener to Self-Obliteration 💗

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

announcing Asclepeion, November 27-28. performance/installation in London! Excited to finally show this work which we've been making in-progress and is a Creative Capital '23 award, and in residence at Coaxial Arts, Coyote Studios ELA, Galerie SAW Ottawa, and Marfa Tx. reservation link next page 1/

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Geø @geotekno.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

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...

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Breakfast this morning with Stelarc! And Samar 🩵🩵🩵 Zinque dtla 💦👂🏽🩵

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"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."💗

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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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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

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!

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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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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

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.

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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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Cosey Fanni Tutti @coseyfannitutti.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

50 years ago today Throbbing Gristle performed live for the first time. 'COUM' was Cosey Fanni Tutti and her individual action 'Womans Roll'.

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

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 🖤🖤🖤

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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)

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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!

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Women's Cruise 2023 Show | LOUIS VUITTON

YouTube video by Louis Vuitton

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

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).

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Greg Burk's recount and interview with Johanna Went 💗🥀 www.metaljazz.com/2026/06/even...

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Event and interview: Johanna Went Fashion Show at The Box, June 6, 2026. (MetalJazz)

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

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

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

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...

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

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 🥀

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Happy Birthday to the one and only Lydia Lunch 🖤🖤🖤 at Sister Alberta King’s Nee Orleans 1990 💘

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

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).

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

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! 💗💗

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CPR-3: Ron Athey: On Paintings and Performance

YouTube video by DPSVideoLibrary

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Rainer Werner Fassbinder makes Hanna Schygulla float during an appearance in the 1970s show "Stars in der Manege"

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Second draft done. You, my pretties, get to read it next summer from WW Norton and Pushkin Press.

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

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!

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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 06/05/2026

KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS. Director’s Cut. Restored and Remastered. In Theaters October 16.

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Solar Anus powdering for Monday vibes ;)

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

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 ❤️‍🔥

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Prosthetic scarification 1970 Jean Paul Goude ❤️‍🔥🏆

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

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.

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stephen hodge @stephenhodge.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

at the getty later today www.getty.edu/calendar/per...

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

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 💗

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

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!

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Pippa Plays the Fool

Now Instant Image Hall is a cinema and bookstore

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

🏆 Tuesday moods: Hammer fall, Rachel Freire leather nipple cube, Leigh Bowery performance shot, my priest cap

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Sam Čermák, PhD @sam-cermak.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Also, I'm doing a book launch event in London at @qmul.bsky.social's QUORUM on 15 April. It's gonna be held both online and in person and feature a performance work by a great post-Soviet performer Pianka Pärna. You can register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

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Book Launch: Abnormal Peripheries by Sam Čermák (with Pianka Pärna)

Quorum welcomes Sam Čermák for a special event to launch his new book on Czech and Slovak performance art from the 1960s/70s

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Akhnaten at LA Opera with my dear friend and artist idol Johanna Went today 💗💗💗

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

with the fab William Wei, MD and art collector at his art week reception last night in Los Angeles. psyched to be in his college and love this neon psychic cross from Gen 💗

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RICK CASTRO @eigilvesti.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

RICK CASTRO: PSYOPS & PHOTO OPS Photographic group exhibition __________ @laluzdejesus.bsky.social opening reception- March 6th 7-11pm La Luz de Jesus 4633 Hollywood Blvd Los Feliz. 90027 On exhibition thru March 29th, 2026

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Always missing the late great Wanda Coleman 💗💗💗

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I run my mouth in this! 🖤🖤🖤

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

RIP Rev. Jesse Jackson 💗 I saved this photo from the 1999 defiance of Clinton - piking up a POW and conducting a prayer circle with Milosevic 💗 www.thecrimson.com/article/1999...

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Tonights watch!!! Manly P. Hall's When You Were Born starring Anna May Wong 1938, I was looking for it for years, bless YouTube 😜

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When Were You Born -1938 - Manly Palmer Hall

YouTube video by Super Man

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

More deets on the Fakir Musafar film and the exhibition at the ONE. Photo of Fakir and I was taken days before he died in Menlo Park, California. He gifted me a series of prints including the 4th image with vise clamps ;) 💗

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Join us at the ONE institute for the screening of the Fakir Musafar doc film, A Body to Live In, with director Angelo Madsen, myself and curator Quetzal Arévalo. I'm talking head in the flick and honored to be part of this discussion event and exhibition at the ONE 💗

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Event Details | USC Visions & Voices

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I visited this Mausoleum in Oslo and couldn't believe the acoustics. psyched Diamanda did a concert there in 2012. If youre in Oslo visit, only open on Sunday afternoons.

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Diamanda Galás at Emanuel Vigeland Museum in Oslo, Norway.

YouTube video by nymusikk

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Excited that Carmina Escobar and The Industry Opera at REDCAT is on Feb. 20-22, and including the Death Valley Amargosa Opera House video we shot a few weeks ago! Get tickets via REDCAT! www.redcat.org/events/2026/...

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I just got more drone footage from our Automatic Writing session from October 2025 in Athens, Greece. Working on more Darkness Visible locations, for this 10 day immersive workshop. This space, once Communitism, now Plex, is hard to match, we produced 45 performances for our finals night!

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Gifts of the Spirit: Automatism Session

with hypnotist Michele Occelli, Ron Athey has been directing automatism sessions with philosophical reading prompts, creating writing, collectively authored texts…

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