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Ron Athey, in conversation with Dominic Johnson, discusses the histories that have informed his practice in performance, including subcultural legacies, European Surrealism, Hollywood religiosity, and other less… - Ron Athey with Dominic Johnson

Ron Athey, in conversation with Dominic Johnson, discusses the histories that have informed his practice in performance, including subcultural legacies, European Surrealism, Hollywood religiosity, and other less familiar precedents for thinking about performance art, body art and live art. Other key themes will include HIV/AIDS, body modification, martyrdom, mysticism, autobiography and death. Accompanied by clips from his major performances, Athey accounts for the ways in which his work invites audiences to consider a politics of the body in performance.


- Hayley Newman with Roberta Mock & Siobhan McKeown

Hayley Newman is probably best known as an interdisciplinary artist who, in works such as Connotations - Performance Images (1988), used video, photography and written text to document a range of quirky performances that may or may not have taken place (depending on one's point of view). She discusses Performance Traces, Legacies and Generations with Roberta Mock and Siobhan McKeown who, in keeping with this theme, are mother and daughter. More