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Incorruptible Flesh: Messianic Remains Preview
London Preview of Ron Athey’s “Incorruptible Flesh: Messianic Remains” Join us for the preview of Ron Athey’s newly developed performance, “Incorruptible Flesh: Messianic Remains”, taking place at ]performance space[ in the Swan Wharf building in Hackney Wick. 5/30/14 8PM – 11PM E3 2NQ London | View map Tickets >>>
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The State of Magick/The Magickal State
Lisa Newman will be joining Geraldine Beskin (Atlantis Bookshop), Dr. Matthew Cheeseman (University of Sheffield), Robert Dickins (Psychdelic Press UK), The Reverend Nemu (Astral Clergy), Sharron Kraus (Musician), William Redwood (Writer), and Sara Zaltash (Performance) for Nick Kilby’s (New Aktionist, sacred things) unique conference on Magick and Performance 23 May. Photograph by Gerard Hutton of Charlotte Rodgers’ ‘Isis Unveiled‘
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Book Launch in Manchester
Join us for “Body Crossings”: an open discussion with Ron Athey and Jennifer Doyle about their work and latest publications – “Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performance of Ron Athey” and Doyle’s “Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art” – part of the 2013-2014 CIDRAL “Border Crossing” lecture series at the University of Manchester. Copies of both books will be available for purchase/signing at the reception immediately following the event. Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performance of Ron Athey Ron Athey is a central figure in the development of performance art since the early 1990s, and this is the first book devoted…
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Soriah in Manchester
2 Gyrlz is proud to host Soriah’s return to Manchester supported by Die Hexen, Lazer Dream Eyes, Led and the Swan… 12 May at The Castle! £5 entry at the door goes to support Soriah on tour >>>
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Ron Athey on Gifts of the Spirit
Friday 14th September 2012 – 14:00 – 15:30 One Thoresby Street Event takes place in the Attic Space at One Thoresby Street Seminal live artist Ron Athey talks about his recent work Gifts of the Spirit, a performance installation which used his memoirs as a starting point from which to create a collective-unconsciousness automatic writing machine featuring glossolalic chorus.
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2Nights with 2Gyrlz
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Voices in the Chapel
2 Gyrlz Performative Arts, in collaboration with Platt Chapel, are proud to present a night of traditional and experimental vocals and music laptop orchestra MMULe (Manchester), acclaimed mezzo soprano and composer, Nina Whiteman (Manchester), and internationally renowned Tuvan throat singer and ritual performance artist, Soriah (Enrique Ugalde – Oregon) as part of his October tour of the UK.
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AUTOMATIC WRITING as PERFORMANCE
Ron Athey & Sue Fox Discuss GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT by JC Gonzo Extreme body artist Ron Athey‘s latest large-scale performance installation Gifts Of The Spirit: Part 1 occurred at The Whitworth Hall in Manchester, UK. The piece centered around the art and experience of automatic creative manifestation, including writing, vocalization, and music. Having not explored a subject on such a massive and involved scale in over 10 years, Gifts of The Spirit included the following: 16 automatic writers, 6 typists, 4 editors, 1 reader, a piano and a glossalalia chorus. The event was entirely fabricated by Athey himself, with additional music performance from automatic composition from Othon Mataragas.
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Ron Athey: Gifts of the Spirit
It’s rare that I should be blown away by performance art; challenged perhaps, occasionally touched, but more often contemplative and with a tendency to drift along with my own imagining, straying from the intended path. But tonight I was grounded firmly in the present moment as legendary body artist and former Pentecostal ingénue Ron Atheyunveiled his latest ‘channelling’ in the historic and pitch-perfect surroundings of The Whitworth Hall at the University of Manchester.
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confused guff
A review from Gifts of the Spirit by C. James Fagan I am waiting in what appears to be a gothic lounge in a building of the University of Manchester and the air is already thick with humid art-speak. The room is also thick of people sporting tattoos, piercings and occultist Heavy Metal T-Shirts, a display of some half remembered connection with the spiritual and religious meaning these marks once communicated, and it could be a show of affinity with the tattooed and pierced Athey himself.