Gifts of the Spirit

lookbook&research images for upcoming performance at Los Angeles' Cathedral of St. Vibiana, program of the Broad museum, January 25, by Ron Athey and Sean Griffin, Costume and set design by Stacy Ellen Rich

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A History of Ecstasy, ron athey & co., museoMADRE Naples, 2010

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beam me up!

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Musical transcription of Ron’s automatic writing by Sean

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from Fictitious Conducting Patterns’ “Calling Michael Jackson”

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Performance score in Guanajuato 

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Work session at Sean Griffin’s studio in Marfil, Guanajuato 

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Ron in Guanajuato working on “Gifts”

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Les Champs magnétiques. ... Les Champs magnétiques(The Magnetic Fields) is a book by André Breton and Philippe Soupault. It is famed as the first work of literary Surrealism. Published in 1920, the authors used a surrealist automatic writing technique.

André Masson. Automatic Drawing. (1924). 

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GYSIN

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word and adding machines all things burroughs

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head wraps

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Mugler - ecstatic typists

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