Ron Athey (born December 16, 1961) is an American artist associated with body art and with extreme performance art. He has performed in the U.S. and internationally (especially in the UK and Europe). He has also, with Vaginal Davis, curated performance art festivals in the U.S. and in Europe. As an artist, Athey uses his body to explore controversial subject matters such as the relationship between desire, sexuality, and self-mutilation. Wikipedia
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...this site. July 13-16, 2005 Ron Athey & Juliana Snapper The Judas Cradle For more information and to find tickets for this performance click here... www.ronathey.com/
Born in 1961 in Connecticut, artist Ron Athey has been based in Los Angeles since 1963. Athey's graphic, cathartic performance has been heavily influenced by his feelings toward the dysfunctionality and religious perversity of his strict Pentecostal upbr 05.performa-arts.org/artists/ron-athey
Difficult as it is to believe, Ron Athey was once a bible-thumping Christian. Brought up by Pentecostals, the L.A.-based performance artist still recalls speaking in tongues and being part of his family's staged crusade to recruit new folk and save souls www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/1999/011499/cover.html
Ron Athey is an American artist associated with body art and with extreme performance art. He has performed in the U.S. and internationally (especially in the UK and Europe). He has also, with Vaginal Davis, curated performance art festivals in the U.S. www.thecentreofattention.org/artists/ronathey.html
As a boy, Ron Athey practiced Christianity in extremis, and it helped make him the tattooed purveyor of spectacular and disturbing rituals that he is today. Athey is still best known for his brief, shining moment as a scapegoat in the culture war. The r www.villagevoice.com/news/9850,carr,2061,4.html
