Athey, Ron: The Solar Anus [Take #2]

Athey, Ron: The Solar Anus [Take #2]

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Title The Solar Anus [Take #2]
Subtitle Explicite Sexual Practices as an Art Form
Type Performance, Body-art / Live-art, Perseverance performance
Date 23 October 1998
Venue Kapelica Gallery
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Kapelica Gallery
Format 720x576 pxl
Duration 28' 54"
URL http://www.kapelica.org/#event=324
Registration number KAP-1998-PERF-43
Number of works in a group 3

Synopsis

Battaile's The Solar Anus: ''The Solar Anus is the intact anus of a woman's body at the age of eighteen to which nothing sufficiantly blinding can be compared except the sun, even though the anus is the night.''Which hearkens aging, and deluded hints of Louis XIV, the Sun King (Ron Athey)

Source: Kapelica

Artist, artistic group

Athey, Ron

Group of artworks

Athey Ron, The Solar Anus [Take #1], Ljubljana, 23 October 1998, 28' 53"
Athey Ron, The Solar Anus [Take #2], Ljubljana, 23 October 1998, 28' 54"
Athey Ron, The Solar Anus [edited], Ljubljana, 23 October 1998, 04' 39"

Production

Venue

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Athey Ron, Self Obliterations I & II [side view], Ljubljana, 31 March 2011, 18' 35"