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CLUBBING 2020
Guest Speakers
ron athey
club fuck!
Ron Athey has been working at the vanguard of performance art for 25 years. Self-taught, his work developed out of post-punk/pre-goth scenes and begins with
Premature Ejaculation (PE)
, an early 1980s collaboration with Rozz Williams. Their approach to performance art was informed by the club actions of Johanna Went and the formulation of Industrial Culture, the idea of psycho/neuro acoustics in sound performance. In the 1990s, Athey formed a company of performers and made
Torture Trilogy
, a series of works that addressed the AIDS pandemic directly through memorializing and philosophical reflection.
