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.
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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.”**