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

would love to! hopefully will book a few UK cities after this! unless you have a venue for us on this trip? ;) its been too long!

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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.

futureritual.co.uk

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

2. reservations for Asclepeion at Future Ritual's Ceremony Festival in Peckham futureritual.co.uk/ceremony-fest excited to work w/ Carmina Escobar (sound design and The Pythia), Federica Dauri (Hygeia), Myrgon (Dionysus), and my always collaborator Hermes Pittakos (The Hierophant and art director).

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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

I didnt allow photography so all we have are from one ICA person that are all bleached out lol. we do have hi res video coming and I can pull clips and stills from that. This was a great opportunity to vocally train with Carmina again, if you're in London Nov. 27-28, premier of Asclepeion! TBA

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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."💗

artforum.com

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 · 19/07/2026

live and direct from the 33 planets!

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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!

ronathey.org

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 · 10/07/2026

I’ll look again I think it used to be the bunkhouse, part of the griff’s package which also included the stud, but maybe it’s east Hollywood by a hair?

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We definitely did have our time there! surprised how many spots had been bars or clubs, like the circus of looks building!

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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.

ericbrightwell.com

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 · 28/06/2026

😅 I thought I was the only one

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

Thank you Frank 💗💗💗

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

a friend sent me this scan, I only had a partial in my archive, and it tore me up again. what we had to do to survive but also the magic energy around having nothing to lose yet pulling together. I sit in my 65 year with many things going on and decomposing around me!

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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

I'm reading "Table of Contents: A Life in 33 Chapters" at a LACE event next month, which includes this, losing childhood friends in Jonestown, everything AIDS, eta. even though its just announced it seems to be fully booked.. will update if that changes. also will self-produce a second night.

welcometolace.org

RESILIENCE

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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!

youtube.com

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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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

#Killary NOT #shewasrightabouteverything I wish the Clintons would enjoy retirement somewhere quiet

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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 · 10/06/2026

maybe! I'm the only one hurt by it ;) I know Nitsch did one of his mysteries for children but I cant find any record of it online!

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

being a jr historian: Lady Jane on the John Fleck night ;) these nights begat the yearly 24 hour art/party Visions of Excess which were launched at the Coral Sands Motel, onwards to a castle in Ljubljana, a lap dance club in Brum, and Spill Fest in London. LOVE curating when I can get it!

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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 · 06/06/2026

Development rehearsal was off the hook yesterday, LA this is tonight 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵

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

happy day I hope you rang it in! 💗

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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

The horniest without the Christianity ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

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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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