Ron Athey
@ron-athey.bsky.social
Performance artist, I also write, facilitate workshops and practice structural bodywork in Los Angeles
Exploding head lineage! Salvador Dali 1939, Leigh Bowery 1992, and my cephalophore by Hermes Pittakos 2018
November 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Exploding head lineage! Salvador Dali 1939, Leigh Bowery 1992, and my cephalophore by Hermes Pittakos 2018
Reposted by Ron Athey
[Jack Smith] No President at Bleecker St. Cinema
New York: Jack Smith, 1969. Offset.
New York: Jack Smith, 1969. Offset.
November 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
[Jack Smith] No President at Bleecker St. Cinema
New York: Jack Smith, 1969. Offset.
New York: Jack Smith, 1969. Offset.
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Opening tomorrow: Phallus :: Fascinum :: Fascism at the Box Gallery in downtown LA, first screening of my 15 minute video Hierophant, til January 17 💘 happy to be in the massive group show and have a final edit of this work we shot in Athens, digital edition of 5 at the Box or Murmurs Gallery 💖💖💖
November 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Opening tomorrow: Phallus :: Fascinum :: Fascism at the Box Gallery in downtown LA, first screening of my 15 minute video Hierophant, til January 17 💘 happy to be in the massive group show and have a final edit of this work we shot in Athens, digital edition of 5 at the Box or Murmurs Gallery 💖💖💖
The long-awaited new edition of Bob Flanagan’s Fuck Journal, on Hanuman Books, thank you for this copy Johanna Hedva, who wrote the intro in this new edition 💘💘💘
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The long-awaited new edition of Bob Flanagan’s Fuck Journal, on Hanuman Books, thank you for this copy Johanna Hedva, who wrote the intro in this new edition 💘💘💘
This was a sweet lil book gift
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November 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This was a sweet lil book gift
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Thank you Dina Douglass for unearthing this photo, young and in love. 🥀🥀
"I took this photo of Rozz Williams and Ron Athey during the Christian Death in-store appearance at Vinyl Fetish in Hollywood. The date was April 10, 1982, to promote the release of Only Theatre of Pain."
"I took this photo of Rozz Williams and Ron Athey during the Christian Death in-store appearance at Vinyl Fetish in Hollywood. The date was April 10, 1982, to promote the release of Only Theatre of Pain."
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Thank you Dina Douglass for unearthing this photo, young and in love. 🥀🥀
"I took this photo of Rozz Williams and Ron Athey during the Christian Death in-store appearance at Vinyl Fetish in Hollywood. The date was April 10, 1982, to promote the release of Only Theatre of Pain."
"I took this photo of Rozz Williams and Ron Athey during the Christian Death in-store appearance at Vinyl Fetish in Hollywood. The date was April 10, 1982, to promote the release of Only Theatre of Pain."
if you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
if you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
The estate of late great artist Rachel Rosenthal is at auction Nov. 11, if I had collection money I'd be bidding on this!
Lot - Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh, Art/Life One Year Performance 1983–1984
www.abell.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The estate of late great artist Rachel Rosenthal is at auction Nov. 11, if I had collection money I'd be bidding on this!
Reposted by Ron Athey
Callas - Medea (1959, London), with Jon Vickers
October 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Callas - Medea (1959, London), with Jon Vickers
Finishing development on Hierophant Working with Hermes Pittakos and booking euro and uk May/June tour! Contact me if you need details to get onboard!
October 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Finishing development on Hierophant Working with Hermes Pittakos and booking euro and uk May/June tour! Contact me if you need details to get onboard!
Reposted by Ron Athey
Blast From The Past! I appeared in this hard-to-find artzine out of Milan back in 2008 alongside @ron-athey.bsky.social + @brucelabruce.bsky.social #zine #tjnorris #photography
October 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Blast From The Past! I appeared in this hard-to-find artzine out of Milan back in 2008 alongside @ron-athey.bsky.social + @brucelabruce.bsky.social #zine #tjnorris #photography
Florida road trip 1989, thank you Poncr De Leon!
October 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Florida road trip 1989, thank you Poncr De Leon!
I love sticking my face in these sets! Norwich Castle 2013 ish with @kiraoreilly.bsky.social and Julia Beardsley 🥳💞💞💞
October 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I love sticking my face in these sets! Norwich Castle 2013 ish with @kiraoreilly.bsky.social and Julia Beardsley 🥳💞💞💞
In 1998 at mix fest São Paulo with Jennifer Tilley! 🤩🎉
October 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
In 1998 at mix fest São Paulo with Jennifer Tilley! 🤩🎉
With the late great Rachel Rosenthal 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵
October 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
With the late great Rachel Rosenthal 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵
Coming 2026: Carmina Escobar and Ron Athey VOX CLAMANTIS
Portrait series from Chinati Foundation residency in Marfa TX by Amina Cruz
Portrait series from Chinati Foundation residency in Marfa TX by Amina Cruz
October 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Coming 2026: Carmina Escobar and Ron Athey VOX CLAMANTIS
Portrait series from Chinati Foundation residency in Marfa TX by Amina Cruz
Portrait series from Chinati Foundation residency in Marfa TX by Amina Cruz
Just home from Athens but missing my loves Daniel, Michele, Jeremy, Riven 🩷🩷🩷 and another 45! So hard to leave intense community 💘💘💘😢
October 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Just home from Athens but missing my loves Daniel, Michele, Jeremy, Riven 🩷🩷🩷 and another 45! So hard to leave intense community 💘💘💘😢
Reposted by Ron Athey
I'm in Chile and everyone here who still has PSTD from watching people getting stuffed into trucks by the military during the Pinochet era is like, there no way in hell I'm going to the U.S. even for 5 minutes.
October 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I'm in Chile and everyone here who still has PSTD from watching people getting stuffed into trucks by the military during the Pinochet era is like, there no way in hell I'm going to the U.S. even for 5 minutes.
I'm going to make certain I hit this show in NYC while it's up, have just been writing on Unarius, Universal World Church, and the uglier chapters of Jim Jones. Big congrats to Jodi Wille for curating this, if you have seen her docs Welcome Space Brothers, and The Source Family, get involved xxx
Utopia: Three Centuries of Sexuality in American Cults and Communes - Museum of Sex
www.museumofsex.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I'm going to make certain I hit this show in NYC while it's up, have just been writing on Unarius, Universal World Church, and the uglier chapters of Jim Jones. Big congrats to Jodi Wille for curating this, if you have seen her docs Welcome Space Brothers, and The Source Family, get involved xxx
LA: if you can handle screenings and lecture about my 1990s pre-Protease AIDS work, please join! It's feeling more and more abstract knowing people born in the time or prep and pep but this era of the pandemic demanded this work.
Torture Trilogy: Reflecting on Two Decades of Infamy with Ron Athey - Circa
This program is curated as a part of the Circa: Queer Histories Festival Exhibition The Sky is Always Falling: HIV/AIDS Activists Unleashing Power in Los Angeles Then and Now! on view from September 2...
www.circafestival.org
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
LA: if you can handle screenings and lecture about my 1990s pre-Protease AIDS work, please join! It's feeling more and more abstract knowing people born in the time or prep and pep but this era of the pandemic demanded this work.
Winding me up and co-signing it
October 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Winding me up and co-signing it
Darkness Visible Athens is a wrap, not ready to return the the states 😓 40 participants 8 facilitators day trip to the Oracle at Delphi, all DIY self produced sliding scale fee, and now back to LA figuring out how to move somewhere I can work
October 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Darkness Visible Athens is a wrap, not ready to return the the states 😓 40 participants 8 facilitators day trip to the Oracle at Delphi, all DIY self produced sliding scale fee, and now back to LA figuring out how to move somewhere I can work
“Everyday the whole world breaks my heart” Little Annie before The Swans, Tuesday the Lodge Room 💘💘💘💘💘💘
September 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
“Everyday the whole world breaks my heart” Little Annie before The Swans, Tuesday the Lodge Room 💘💘💘💘💘💘
Newest in my EgertonMS series, Divinity Icon: the Executioner
September 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Newest in my EgertonMS series, Divinity Icon: the Executioner