Queer Communion - Ron Athey

Amelia Jones is the Robert A. Day Professor and Vice Dean of Research at the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California. She is the author of many books, including Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts and the coedited anthologies Perform Repeat Record: Live Art in History and Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories. Andy Campbell is assistant professor of critical studies at the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Queer X Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ and the forthcoming Bound Together: Leather, Sex, Archives and Contemporary Art.

'This charming and disarming homage to a unique figure provides a backbone to the kinds of invasive physical performance for which Ron Athey is best known. [...] It lives and breathes, creating a well-rounded sense both of a life’s work to date and of the man himself. Fans of Athey’s work, or certainly anyone with an interest in the kinds of experimental performance artists who came punctured and bleeding out of the early 90s will find a great deal of thoughtful, thought-provoking content here.'

• Acknowledgments – Amelia Jones and Andy CampbellPrelude – Amelia Jones and Andy CampbellIntroduction: Queer Communion and the Worlds of Ron Athey – Amelia JonesWriting Athey – Amelia JonesPreviously Published – Unless otherwise noted, text entirely by Ron AtheyUnpublished – From the Ron Athey archiveReflectionsThe Alchemist: Ron Athey – Lisa Teasley  Anatomy of a Revival – Karen Gonzalez RiceThe Right to Bleed in Public: On Premature Ejaculation – Leon J. Hilton  “A Poetry of Meaningful Experience”: Miss Velma Jaggers’s Stagecraft, Fisting, and Ron Athey’s Miraculous Acts – Andy CampbellRon Athey Rolls Deep – Lisa NewmanThe Beauty of the Dork – Vaginal Davis and Ron Athey, reprint from LA Weekly big brother/big sister – Cesar Padilla  AIDS, Athey, and Culture War – Jonathan D. Katz  An Unruly Archive By Each of Us Towards Each of Us… – Julie Tolentino  Father Daughter Love – Zackary Drucker  Athey-ism – Bruce LaBruceDivine Fire: Ron Athey in Europe – Dominic Johnson  The Light of Night – Lia GangitanoObject Lessons Codpiece – Amelia Jones  HIV Lifecycle Model – Andy Campbell  Honcho – David Getsy  “Rod ‘n’ Bob” (Arrested Intimacies of the Flesh) – Amber Jamilla Musser  Leigh Bowery Cape – Alpesh Kantilal Patel  Resonate/Obliterate (or, Untitled [Dear Ron]) – Ming-Yuen S. Ma “Raised in the Lord” – Jennifer DoyleGeneral Checklist – Amelia Jones  Ron Athey Timeline – Ana Briz and Andy Campbell  Index