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SUICIDE/TATOO SALVATION
01 August 1999


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Ron Athey discovered he had Aids thirteen years ago when there was no efficient cure against this illness. He saw many people die around him and found that such hecatomb had some biblical meaning. "Thus my idea of the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian where I will present a new version in Paris.
I had a long relationship with pain and at the end of the 1980's I became an official martyr of the Gay cause against my will. Since then, the plays I have created are less bloody than before and if there is a still some sexual content in them, the result if not very exciting," he said.

Ron Athey said that in his Saint Sebastian act he will be pierced with surgical steel arrows while in his Suicide Salvation play he will re-enact his experience of tatooing during his youth, how it appeared in one of his dreams that tatoo symbolised the possibility of reinventing one's self and body as well as his extraordinary love for life. "Solar Anus is directly inspired by Georges Bataille's Anus Solaire. The performance will start with a 9-minute film showing a woman tatooing the fringes of my anus from which I am extracting objects while some classical music is being played. It's a sensual play, full of glamour evoking the question of lifting," he added.

Ron Athey, who has been delivering articles for L.A Weekly or Village Voice, said his detoxication cures between 1985 and 1989 enabled him to find what he was searching for. "I drink coffee, I smoke cigarettes but I have not touched drugs any more. However, it's difficult for me to keep a relationship going with someone else," he said.

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