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Internationally acclaimed US performance artist Ron Athey presents his new work Acephalous Monster. Athey rose to international prominence in the 90's making performance that explored challenging subjects like the relationships between desire, sexuality and traumatic experience and confronted conservative narratives around AIDS, S&M and body autonomy. His new work Acephalous Monster is inspired in part by the secret society of Acephale, the 1930s anti-fascist review and magazine published by philosopher Georges Bataille. Using projections, readings, lectures, appropriated text and sound, and by re-imagining cut-up technique pioneer Brion Gysin's brutalist Pistol Poem as a vocal/percussive choreography, Athey turns to the Acephale, the eponymous figure of the headless man, a powerful symbol of radical transformation, and attempts to make sense of a current reality where neo-fascism is mutating, creeping, and marching.

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Presented by: Ron Athey

Acephalous Monster

Acephalous Monster (Performance) production archive for QTIX code T700569831. Details of all Acephalous Monster archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S1703723582

Archive Listings

30 Oct 19Cambridge Junction
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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25 Oct 19Toynbee Studios
Outer London, Greater London
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16 Oct 19Arts Centre
Norwich, Norfolk
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15 Oct 19Arts Centre
Colchester, Essex
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9 Oct 19Centre for Contemporary Arts
Glasgow
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