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.
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.”**