A photo from one of the student performances on Monday - a series of low-fi boyish actions, using a cardboard box, motorcycle helmet, and hoodie.
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Meditations on two weeks of performance art in the Riv.
This night showcased work produced by artists associated with Praxis Mojave. Athey and Tolentino jointly run this intensive summer workshop/retreat for performance artists. Cassils & Drucker participated in Praxis Mojave 2008. Click here to see an e-flyer for last summer's Resonate/Obliterate - a fundraiser for Praxis Mojave.
Ron Athey’s work has significant, recurring themes: dissociative sparkle, self-obliteration, and incorruptible flesh, each played out upon the historic body, the queer body, the AIDS body, the body in the grip of ecstasy or sorrow of death.
Tolentino's performance here moved through scenes of sexual disaster, romantic attachment, love, and loss. The evening's program staged performative dialogues between Athey and Tolentino in which the artists were drawn into each other's work. It concluded with Tolentino's performance and on-the-spot archiving of Athey's "solo" ritual of beauty, abjection and ecstasy. Heather Cassils and Zackary Drucker framed Athey and Tolentino's performances with their own dialogue of embodiment - and staging of nervous gender/sexual nerve.
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