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Ron Athey, Queer Communion (2021). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Participant Inc, New York.
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Ron Athey, Queer Communion (2021). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Participant Inc, New York.
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Ron Athey, Queer Communion (2021). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Participant Inc, New York.
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Ron Athey, Queer Communion (2021). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Participant Inc, New York.
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Ron Athey, Queer Communion (2021). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Participant Inc, New York.
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Ron Athey, Queer Communion (2021). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Participant Inc, New York.
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Ron Athey, Queer Communion (2021). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Participant Inc, New York.
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Ron Athey, Queer Communion (2021). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Participant Inc, New York.
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Ron Athey, Queer Communion (2021). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Participant Inc, New York.
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Ron Athey, Queer Communion (2021). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Participant Inc, New York.
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Ron Athey, Queer Communion (2021). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Participant Inc, New York.
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Ron Athey, Queer Communion (2021). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Participant Inc, New York.
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Ron Athey, Queer Communion (2021). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Participant Inc, New York.
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Ron Athey, Queer Communion (2021). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Participant Inc, New York.

Community & culture wars in a retrospective on the queer post-punk performance art of Ron Athey

, 31 May 2021

Queer Communion, a retrospective exhibition on Ron Athey, curated by Amelia Jones, was on at New York’s Participant Inc, running February 14 to April 4.

Ron Athey, Queer Communion (2021). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Participant Inc, New York.

With archival materials, props and documentation, the show presents an expansive look at the Los Angeles artist’s communal and subcultural performance art practice. As stated in the press release: “Having been the focus of a homophobic, AIDS-phobic, and sensationalized political attack during the U.S. culture wars of the 1990s… Athey’s practice remains a challenge to the politics of today’s renewed culture wars.”**

Ron Athey’s Queer Communion retrospective exhibition, curated by Amelia Jones, was on at Participant Inc, New York, running February 14 to April 4, 2021.