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Ron Athey: Acephalous Monster
First Preview: Nov 2, 2018
Opening Date: Nov 14, 2018
Closing Date: Nov 17, 2018
Running Time: 01:10
Playing @
Performance Space New York
150 1st Ave, New York City, NY 10009
Best known for his boundary-pushing body mutilations, Ron Athey has been pursuing the transcendent and sublime for more than three decades.
After the Death of God (famously proclaimed by the philosopher Nietzsche who anticipated the end of religion in Western society), Athey considers it one of the artist’s roles to invent new forms of ritual and celebration, to conjure the sacred as an antidote to the empty individualism of contemporary life.
For his new work, Acephalous Monster, Athey turns to the Acéphale, the figure of the headless man, which inspired George Bataille’s secret society of the same name to combat nihilism and fascism before the Second World War in France. The headless or beheaded man is a powerful symbol of radical transformation, the driving force of all of Athey’s performances pushing towards the merging of humans and gods
After the Death of God (famously proclaimed by the philosopher Nietzsche who anticipated the end of religion in Western society), Athey considers it one of the artist’s roles to invent new forms of ritual and celebration, to conjure the sacred as an antidote to the empty individualism of contemporary life.
For his new work, Acephalous Monster, Athey turns to the Acéphale, the figure of the headless man, which inspired George Bataille’s secret society of the same name to combat nihilism and fascism before the Second World War in France. The headless or beheaded man is a powerful symbol of radical transformation, the driving force of all of Athey’s performances pushing towards the merging of humans and gods
Show Notes: No Intermission
Age Guidance: 18
Audience Advisory: Adult content Graphic disturbing imagery Post-show talk on Friday, November 16 with Cynthia Carr.
Performance Schedule
WEDNESDAY thru SATURDAY @ 7 PM
Written By
- Ron Athey
Choreography
- Ron Athey
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Entrance
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Parking
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Visual Assistance
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