Ron Athey
American performance artist · United States · On the map · Artists · Born 1961 · age 64
Ron Athey is an American performance artist associated with body art and with extreme performance art and is said to be a "central figure in the development of live art." He has performed in the U.S. and internationally.
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Athey's work explores challenging subjects like the relationships between desire, sexuality and traumatic experience. Many of his works include aspects of S&M in order to confront preconceived ideas about the body in relation to masculinity and religious iconography.
