SB6 contributor RON ATHEY has been a central figure in the development of performance art since the 1980s. In his stagings of crisis, sexuality and death in the time of AIDS, Athey calls into question the limits of artistic practice. Athey has been a crucial figure in the development of performance art and body art; club performance; intersections between punk, queer and alternative cultures; sexual politics, specifically in relation to queer practices and the politics of HIV/AIDS; and the representation of religion and ritual.


DOMINIC JOHNSON, also contributing to SB6 is an artist and writer based in the UK. He is a Lecturer in the Department of Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, and publishes frequently on performance and visual culture. His research interests include: performance art, live art, and body-based practices since 1960; performance and visual culture; representations of sex, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS; and subcultural histories, including body modification and performance in alternative spaces.


Iniva creates exhibitions, publications, multimedia, education and research projects engaging with new ideas and emerging debates in the contemporary visual arts which reflect the diversity of contemporary society.


On March 29th, Ron will screen two short videos of his performance work and in the following discussion he and Dominic will explore ideas of extremity as a bearer of cultural and aesthetic politics and as a voice for a political understanding of violence, care of the self and transcendence of the literal and the limited and the consensual.


This event is part of Blasphemy and Redemption, a series of talks and screenings curated and chaired by Adrian Rifkin in response to Roee Rosen: Vile, Evil Veil.



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In the framework of this year’s Cambridge Science Festival – the UK’s biggest free science festival – Professor John Barrow will cast a mathematical eye over a wide range of Olympic sporting events. What is going on mathematically in a range of running, swimming, jumping, throwing, paddling, lifting, swinging and wheelchair racing events? Barrow will also examine some of the strange scoring systems that sports employ.

Festival runs from March 12-25 at venues across the University and City.
Barrow will speak on Monday, 12 March (6:00PM – 7:00PM).

An interesting introduction to the complex world of Schwelle 7 in Berlin, and a sweet portrait of SB contributor and dear friend Felix.

Legendary tattoo-photographer and reporter (and Sang Bleu friend) Traveling Mick finally started a website. Check it out and get your mind blown!

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Travelin’ Mick is a photographer and journalist, who has been relentlessly roaming the world in search of the last remaining tattoo cultures of this planet to record and thus conserve them for posterity.

By visiting and documenting the last remaining traditional tattooing practices on all continents, he tries to preserve those cultures and show them to the world in images that express the beauty and pride of ethnic groups and traditional communities, who still bear the marks of their people.

Our friend and editor Betony Vernon just got interviewed for STYLELIKEU.COM. SICK! Next one is me ;)

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Betony Vernon Closet Interview for StyleLikeU.com from StyleLikeU on Vimeo.

My nails were no longer pussy fucking nails, so I bit them off. Then I put on red lipstick. I shaved just one side of my head and let my hair down. I wanted to construct a half three-piece mod suit, half body-con bunny dress, half baggy jeans, half skinny, but there were too many halves in the equation, and I once learned about fractions. I wanted to be Grace Jones and David Bowie and Lou Reed and JD Samson. To scurry about in no-man-or-woman’s land. There I’m just a bottom feeder. With too fat a bottom. I tried to disentangle androgyny from thinness and ended up masturbating out of self-loathing. That’s usually when I stroke my invisible cock. It’s invisible but big. I was dreaming about girls in thongs and ended up almost buying one online. But my invisible credit card number didn’t authenticate.

Listen to Roxanne’s conversation with for Dis Magazine by S. Adrian Massey III!

AdrianIII Interviews Bodybuilder Roxanne Edwards by DISmagazine

Image by Jason Nocito
Styling Avena Gallagher
Words by Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal