Over the years I have collaborated with some great musicians and producers including Andy Green and Johnny Borden (as "Arch"), Natalia Perez, Luis Monter ( as "El Tornado"), Jesus Najar (Los Trastornaós), Iñaki Lopez and Borja (Los Amanerados), Rampova Kabaret, Juli Mekanika (The Retromodernistes) and currently with Kapi Martinez in our project Gran Tour.
Influences
WRITERS: Camille Paglia, Jack Smith, Jacques Derrida, William Burroughs, Jean Genet, Toni Davidson, Tom Robbins, Richard Brautigan, Angela Carter...
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ART: Moreau, Fuseli, Dali, Mariko Mori, John Martin, Jeff Koons, Yoko Ono, Naive John...
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PERFORMER / LIFE: Jayne County, Transformer (Burnel), Lydia Lunch, Lizards, Jackie Curtis, Eartha Kitt (RIP), Katharine Hepburn, Divine David, Insects, Ron Athey, Ernesto Tomasini, Scott Walker, Orchids...
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MUSIC: Ketty Lester, Magazine, Eartha Kitt, Messiaen, The King of Luxemburg, Scott Walker, Johnny Rotten, La Galleguita, Sparks, Dolores Vargas, Carmen, Billy Mackenzie, Wire, Athletico Spizz 80, Antoñita Peñuela, Earth Wheel Sky Band, Smash, Rolling Stones...
MY GREATEST HITS DVD IS AVAILABLE NOW!!!!
Myspace Layouts
I think that "myspace" should encapsulate a world within a world. Inspired by the ideals of the collectors who formed cabinets of curiosities and whose ideas influenced the Encyclopedists completing this collection (which of course includes its conservation) is the project of my philosophy of Radical Ecology which i approach from a transgender point of view since only in this way can it be truly all encompassing. My work embodies the pioneering philosophyof the Enlightenment : a mixture of awestruck WONDER at the time based beauty of the natural world and an appreciation of the incredible primitivism and artificiality of our frozen human aesthetics. I have begun to call my work as a whole "THE RECYCLOPEDIA" because whether the format used is video, song, performance or illustration, it always has a strong textual basis. Language is Art.
My texts flow off the page like the make up often flows off the contours of my face. I cannot help it, I defy the specialists who say that an artist must focus on one field to be taken seriously. This is the mentality of the marketplace. True, my way will never be commercial, will never fit in easily - how can you market something so nebuluos? - but I cannot help myself: I am a baroque anachronism!!!!
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ALTERED BOOKS: I began publishing my short stories in the traditional anthology format in collections like: From the Backroom (1993), New Writing Scotland 10 (1992) and Latitudes (2006 ). I also published fanzines of my own and others work: Stomach, Scribbles on a Toilet Wall (1994) Girlie Mag (1996), Fu Manchu (1999). In recent years I have placed my texts inside already published works - taking them to pieces and putting them back together to form the unique volumes of my "Recyclopedia". Using postcards, publicity for museums, textbooks and old encyclopedias I am compiling a series of works which will encapsulate all branches of knowledge organised in an aesthetic, non systematic way. So far volumes altered include: "Mythology"; "Religion and Ecology"; "The Economy of Art". Pictured below are images from "Volume 2".
Layout by: Myspace Layouts Creator
"Studies for an Archeology of the Museum"
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PAINTINGS WITH LIGHT: I have used video projections in my performances for years and this led me to make a variety of films from documentations of these and other performances to more experimental purely filimic works.
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VIDEO WORKS: Including: "us-in-the-future" shown on Border TV (Scotland, 1998), the Transgender Film Festival (London 1999) and the Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (Paris, 2000); "Peepshow" (Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 2000) and the multi-media project "Choose Your God/ess" presented in different formats from musical stage shows to film screenings, university lectures and interactive live presentations all over Europe.
Here is an edited version of a video from my greatest hits DVD with some of my crazier performance moments.
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MUSIC: The lyric form is a great way to express ideas. My stage performances always have a musical angle. So I have done musical cabaret, electro folk, lo-fi, glam, swing and my own brand of flamenco fusion which I call FLUNK (flamenco punk).
--------------------------REVIEW of my band "LOS TRASTORNAOS"--------------------------
CASTELLANO:
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The Many Faces of Graham Bell's Friend Space (Top 15)
Museo Madre - Sala Polifunzionale Via Settembrini 79 80139 Napoli
History of Ecstasy
ideazione e regia Ron Athey sceneggiatura, scenografia, costumi Alfredo Hunter sound design Othon Mataragas vocalist Ernesto Tomasini performers Ron Athey, Julie Tolentino, Pigpen, Vaginal Davis, Lee Adams, Mouse collaborazione Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, MADRE Museo d'Arte contemporanea Donna REgina
Ron Athey, artista statunitense, ha vissuto l'infanzia in una famiglia che professava un forte legame con la religione pentecostale e si è formato in un ambiente denso di fanatismo, profezie apocalittiche e rituali estatici. Performer, scrittore e critico, Athey pensa che nulla è troppo estremo per la ricerca della verità. Protagonista assoluto dei suoi lavori è il corpo, un corpo-oggetto espropriato, martoriato, offeso, luogo di malattia e di morte e al tempo stesso strumento di riappropriazione di un'identità scelta e non più subita. Si dichiara omosessuale e sieropositivo e realizza spettacoli apocalittici, in cui automutilazioni, tagli, incisioni e perdite di sangue, tracciano i contorni di una alterità dinamica del corpo e della fisicità. Al centro della sua ricerca sul corpo è il dolore, la rabbia, la paura, l'amore e ogni sorta di sensazione intensa.
History of Ecstasy, è una performance site specific che è la summa di tutti i suoi lavori precedenti: una sorta di via crucis metaforica scandita in più atti, a metà strada tra sacro e profano, sogno e realtà, tenerezza e violenza. Partendo dall’attualità e dalle proprie vicende biografiche, l'artista mette in scena l’agiografia sacra rivisitando l'iconografia cristiana. La performance si basa su una dualità che ne costituisce il fulcro e la forza, tra il puro e il sordido, redenzione e dannazione.
Thank you,you beautiful creature for the pleasure of being here,I offer you what I suspect to be a shared love of a track from Sparks-pure genius,enjoy. Jane. XX
With influences such as Athletico Spizz80.Scott Walker and Billy Mackenzie it's no wonder your music rocks.. I hope you were not offended by my word "sophisticated" in my message..hehe!I see you got a certain hostility with this word. ;P Here is a song for a jolly year! .. The Spotnicks - The Rocket Man (1962) Ανέβηκε από Salut-les-copains.. Cheers!
MR. BELL! PRÓXIMO MARTES 27 A LAS 9 TARDE EN BAR GESTALGUINOS (PZA. SAN BULT, DETRÁS DE TETUÁN) PISCOLABIS LISÉRGICO A CARGO DE UN SERVIDOR. INVITADO QUEDA!
