Seminar on performance led by Ron Athey & Jennifer Doyle
16 area artists spend 4 days with Athey and Doyle, who share their archives and work as artist and critic respectively – parts of the seminar will be open to the public:
Public Lectures by Jennifer Doyle
(author of Sex Objects: Art & the Dialectics of Desire)
“Critical Limits: Difficulty and Contemporary Art”
Friday Feb. 13 2:00pm-4:30pm 2212 Humanities Building, UC Riverside
What happens when we encounter our limits as critics, as spectators – and why should we spend time unpacking them? Doyle models a new approach to the subject of difficulty and visual art via a parallel reading of the challenges posed by Thomas Eakins’s painting The Gross Clinic and Ron Athey’s recent performance, Incorruptible Flesh: Disassociated Sparkle.
“My Bloody Valentine:
When Sex & Performance Meet and Queer & Liberal Feminism Part”
Saturday Feb. 14, 2:00pm-4:30pm downstairs at Back to the Grind (3575 University Ave)
In the spring of 2008, the artist Aliza Shvarts found herself in the middle of a national controversy about a conceptual performance that engages with the possibilities of abortion. This talk maps the nature of that controversy, and asks a) why this work was so controversial, b) where feminism stands regarding abortion and art, and c) why, with all its talk about “reproductive futurism” queer theory has been relatively silent about abortion.
Evening salon-style screenings of performance video & experimental film
curated by Athey & Doyle
Downstairs at Back to the Grind (3575 University Ave)!
5:30pm-7:30pm Friday Feb 13 & Saturday Feb 14.
Join us for an eclectic program of performance “classics” and oddball cinematic texts representing Athey’s performance & filmic archive. Expect lots of nudity, explicitness, and creepy investigations of art & intimacy. Intended to be a relaxed and social gathering - discussion and talking back to the screen encouraged
Ron Athey began making performance art in small galleries in a collaboration called Premature Ejaculation with Rozz Williams (1981). In 1992, after years of performing in nightclubs, his first theatrical performance, Martyrs and Saints, was shown at LACE gallery in Los Angeles. Since then, his work has toured festivals and art centers in the UK, Europe and Mexico. With Vaginal Davis he curated the Platinum Oasis Outfest live art extravaganza at the Coral Sands Motel (2001-2) and Visions of Excess (2003) at a lap dance club in Birmingham, England. In recent years he has staged performances at (for example) the Redcat Theater (Judas Cradle, with Julianna Snapper), The Chelsea Theater in London, and at the Politics of Ecstasy Theater festival in Berlin.
Associate Professor Jennifer Doyle is the author of Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (2007 Lambda Award finalist, & Honorable Mention for the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize). She has published a range of essays about contemporary art and performance engaging the work of such artists as Tracey Emin, Andy Warhol, Vaginal Davis, David Wojnarowicz. She writes occasional essays and reviews for Frieze magazine, and also writes a feminist blog about the cultural politics of soccer (From A Left Wing). In 2007-2008, she was in a Leverhulme Fellow in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College in London – the work presented here grows out of her work on Critical Limits, a book about difficulty and the politics of emotion.
16 area artists spend 4 days with Athey and Doyle, who share their archives and work as artist and critic respectively – parts of the seminar will be open to the public:
Public Lectures by Jennifer Doyle
(author of Sex Objects: Art & the Dialectics of Desire)
“Critical Limits: Difficulty and Contemporary Art”
Friday Feb. 13 2:00pm-4:30pm 2212 Humanities Building, UC Riverside
What happens when we encounter our limits as critics, as spectators – and why should we spend time unpacking them? Doyle models a new approach to the subject of difficulty and visual art via a parallel reading of the challenges posed by Thomas Eakins’s painting The Gross Clinic and Ron Athey’s recent performance, Incorruptible Flesh: Disassociated Sparkle.
“My Bloody Valentine:
When Sex & Performance Meet and Queer & Liberal Feminism Part”
Saturday Feb. 14, 2:00pm-4:30pm downstairs at Back to the Grind (3575 University Ave)
In the spring of 2008, the artist Aliza Shvarts found herself in the middle of a national controversy about a conceptual performance that engages with the possibilities of abortion. This talk maps the nature of that controversy, and asks a) why this work was so controversial, b) where feminism stands regarding abortion and art, and c) why, with all its talk about “reproductive futurism” queer theory has been relatively silent about abortion.
Evening salon-style screenings of performance video & experimental film
curated by Athey & Doyle
Downstairs at Back to the Grind (3575 University Ave)!
5:30pm-7:30pm Friday Feb 13 & Saturday Feb 14.
Join us for an eclectic program of performance “classics” and oddball cinematic texts representing Athey’s performance & filmic archive. Expect lots of nudity, explicitness, and creepy investigations of art & intimacy. Intended to be a relaxed and social gathering - discussion and talking back to the screen encouraged
Ron Athey began making performance art in small galleries in a collaboration called Premature Ejaculation with Rozz Williams (1981). In 1992, after years of performing in nightclubs, his first theatrical performance, Martyrs and Saints, was shown at LACE gallery in Los Angeles. Since then, his work has toured festivals and art centers in the UK, Europe and Mexico. With Vaginal Davis he curated the Platinum Oasis Outfest live art extravaganza at the Coral Sands Motel (2001-2) and Visions of Excess (2003) at a lap dance club in Birmingham, England. In recent years he has staged performances at (for example) the Redcat Theater (Judas Cradle, with Julianna Snapper), The Chelsea Theater in London, and at the Politics of Ecstasy Theater festival in Berlin.
Associate Professor Jennifer Doyle is the author of Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (2007 Lambda Award finalist, & Honorable Mention for the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize). She has published a range of essays about contemporary art and performance engaging the work of such artists as Tracey Emin, Andy Warhol, Vaginal Davis, David Wojnarowicz. She writes occasional essays and reviews for Frieze magazine, and also writes a feminist blog about the cultural politics of soccer (From A Left Wing). In 2007-2008, she was in a Leverhulme Fellow in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College in London – the work presented here grows out of her work on Critical Limits, a book about difficulty and the politics of emotion.
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