CYCLIC, Perfomance by Ron Athey, Cassils and Fanaa, 2018, Biosphere 2; Presented by MOCA Tucson; Film Still, Filmographer: Graham Kolbin
CYCLIC
A performance by Ron Athey, Cassils, and Fanaa
ON VIEW: Monday, March 1, 2021 at 12:00PM PST until Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 12:00PM PST
as part of the virtual exhibition
Body Memory - Body Vision: Performance Works
We are honored to host this groundbreaking collaboration between artists Ron Athey, Cassils and Fanaa. For a period of 24 hours, beginning on Monday, March 1, 2021 at 12:00PM PST until Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 12:00PM PST visitors of our virtual exhibition will be able to view the film Cyclic, which documents (while unfolding on its own terms) the performance of the same name.
On December 1, 2018, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA Tucson) first presented Cyclic to an international audience of over 230 attendees in the uniquely resonant “lung” of Biosphere 2, a site which simultaneously evokes utopian and dystopian possibilities. This new, collaborative work presented in conjunction with the exhibition at MOCA Tucson “Blessed Be: Mysticism, Spirituality, and the Occult in Contemporary Art”, presented actions which highlighted the value of lives often deemed disposable, or even incomprehensible. Triangulated within a circle, alternately illuminated and concealed, the artists worked against light and dark, visibility and invisibility to bring their creative forces and subjectivities together in this performance that continuously unfolded in a triptych of tableaux vivants. MOCA TUCSON