Sang Bleu » body modification http://sangbleu.com Sang Bleu project Thu, 24 May 2012 13:29:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Ron Athey & Dominic Johnson in conversation @ Iniva on March 29th http://sangbleu.com/2012/03/20/ron-athey-dominic-johnson-in-conversation-iniva-on-march-30th/ http://sangbleu.com/2012/03/20/ron-athey-dominic-johnson-in-conversation-iniva-on-march-30th/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:05:00 +0000 Jeanne-Salome Rochat http://sangbleu.com/?p=27495


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

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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.

It is his distinctive goal to promote the understanding of the importance of tattooing to the history and culture of mankind and as a veritable form of art.

Tattoos have been an integral part of the shaping of identities of societies and individuals throughout our history over thousands of years as well as a possibility to express our individuality and creativity.

Thorough research is meant to find out more about the relation of mankind and its societies with body art.

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.

]]> http://sangbleu.com/2012/02/06/micks-stories/feed/ 0 Betony Vernon on STYLELIKEU.COM http://sangbleu.com/2011/12/08/betony-vernon-on-stylelikeu-com/ http://sangbleu.com/2011/12/08/betony-vernon-on-stylelikeu-com/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:13:20 +0000 Maxime Buchi http://sangbleu.com/?p=25638 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.

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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

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www.blingblingroxx.com
www.2spirittattoo.com

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