UPCOMING PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS

SPILL Performance Tarot Exhibition (photograph in group show)
10 November - 11 December 2009
' Looking Aside - Eventhood and the Documentation of Performance', Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University, UK.

MIX 22: NY Queer Experimental Film Festival 2009 (video in group show)
November 19, The MIX Factory
125 West 21st Street (btw. 6th & 7th Aves.), New York

Torture Garden

A photo from a shoot on the bus to hell, Torture Garden, Souterrain Porte V, Nancy 2009. Photo by Nigentz.

Spill Tarot

Dominic Johnson as The Hanged Man, photo by Manuel Vason, for Spill Festival 2009 Performance Tarot Pack.

QUEER ZAGREB

Solo performance, Transmission at Queer Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia,
Wednesday 6 May 2009, &TD Theatre, 9.30pm.
Alongside performances by Raimund Hoghe, Francois Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea, Ivo Dimchev and others. Click here for full programme.

Click here for an except and interview on Croatian television (alongside features on hypnotherapy and some twins getting cosmetic surgery). Section starts at 11"30'.

Below is a further (shorter) TV segment:

Visions of Excess 2009

Three-hour solo durational performance (plus Transmission) at Visions of Excess, curated by Ron Athey and Lee Adams as part of SPILL Festival 2009, an international programme of live art and contemporary performance in London.
Sunday 12 April 2009, Shunt Vaults, London Bridge, 9pm to 9am
Alongside live performances by Ron Athey, Lee Adams, Franko B, David Hoyle, Bruce LaBruce, Julie Tolentino, Kira O'Reilly, Zackary Drucker, Mother Flawless Sabrina, Lazlo Pearlman, Ashley Ryder, Suka Off and many others, and installations by Slava Mogutin & Brian Kenny, Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson, and Genesis P-Orridge!










Photos 1-5 by Richard J. Andersen; 6-8 by Mike Kear.

The SPILL website includes a trailer of video documentation from many of the live performances from Visions of Excess.

“One of the most unmissable events of the year”
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

GREAT HALL

Transmission, Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London ( January 2009)

Photo by Maciej Urbanek

Click here for a review of this performance.

DUCKIE

Saturday 21st June 2008
Live performance, Duckie, London.





Photos 1-3 by Eirini Kartsaki, 4 by Helena Hunter.

DONAU FESTIVAL, AUSTRIA

Self-Obliteration Double Bill with Ron Athey.
Live performance, Saturday 26th April 2008, Donau Festival, Vienna, Austria.
Alongside performances by Hidden Cameras, Amon Tobin, Jean-Louis Costes, Ann Liv Young, Kenneth Anger, and Bruce LaBruce's new play featuring the Cheap Collective, Vaginal Davis and Christophe Chemin!








Video recording by Alexis O'Hara (my edit); photo 1 by Matthias Herrmann; 2-4 by Florian Wieser.

My solo was performed in a double-bill with Ron Athey's impossibly beautiful piece Ecstatic.

Photo by Florian Wieser.

DOMINIC JOHNSON AND MANUEL VASON.
Collaborations 1-2, 2006-7.
Performed for camera in London.

RE-VISIONS OF EXCESS

UNTITLED (SELF-OBLITERATION)
Live performance, Re-Visions of Excess, curated by Ron Athey
and Lee Adams, Fierce! Festival, Birmingham, June 2007.


Photos by Ashley.

Transmission

DOMINIC JOHNSON
Transmission, 2007-9.
Performance for camera, Morongo Valley, California, August 2007.







Photos by Serge Hoeltschi.

Performed live at:
- Re-Visions of Excess, curated by Ron Athey
and Lee Adams, Fierce! Festival, Birmingham, June 2007.
- Torture Garden, Mass, London, October 2007.
- with Ron Athey's Ecstatic, as Self-Obliteration Double-Bill at Souterrain Porte IV: Monstres, Maxéville, France, October 2007.
- Behind Bars, London, February 2008 (see above for images and video).
- with Ron Athey's Ecstatic, as Self-Obliteration Double Bill. Featuring original music by OTHON and Black Sun, Donau Festival, Vienna, Austria, April 2008.
- Torture Garden (Rome), Qube, Rome, Italy, June 2008.
- Duckie, London. June 2008.
- (extended version) Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London, January 2009.
- Live performance, Transmission, National Review of Live Art,
Studio Theatre, The Arches, Glasgow.
Friday 13th February 2009, 8pm. See Lyn Gardner's preview in The Guardian.
- Live performance, Queer Zagreb, April 2009.
- Live performance, Duckie, RVT, London
Saturday 6th June 2009.
- Live performance in Under the Skin, part of Gay Icons exhibition at National Portrait Gallery. Alongside live performances by David Hoyle, Bette Bourne and Neil Bartlett, 26 July 2009.
- Live performance as part of Ron Athey and Lee Adams' Visions of Excess, Friday 23 October 2009 at Warehouse 9, Copenhagen, Denmark. Part of The International Performance Art Festival, curated by Gritt-Uldall Jessen & Miss Fish/Jørgen Callesen.


Review in Liberation in French.
Review in Cyberkor in French.
Review in The Organ magazine.
Review in London Fetish Scene magazine.

Incorruptible Flesh (Perpetual Wound)

DOMINIC JOHNSON AND RON ATHEY
Incorruptible Flesh (Perpetual Wound), 2006-7.

Performed live at:
- Sacred, Chelsea Theatre, London, Nov 2006 and April-May 2007. (See e-flyer).
- Fierce! Festival, Custard Factory, Birmingham, June 2007.
Co-commisioned by Chelsea Theatre and Fierce! Festival.






Photos by Regis Hertrich.

"There’s a very audible sobbing in the audience as the performance of Athey and Johnson comes to a hushed climax, as well as a feeling of shared elation... Was it guilt we felt or a feeling of privilege?"
-- Organ

Footage and audience interviews are posted at the Fierce! website. Click on "Fierce TV: Launch" and scroll down to Incorruptible Flesh.
To view the full video documentation, book an appointment at the Live Art Development Agency's Study Room in London.

Gold Digger

DOMINIC JOHNSON AND KRIS CANAVAN
Gold Digger, 2005.
Performed for camera at Hackney Marsh, London.


Photo by Antonio Genco.

Publications

Selected books edited by or with contributions by Dominic Johnson
Click on images of books to order.

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Photography, Performance, Collaboration
Edited by Dominic Johnson
Bristol: Arnolfini, 2007. 218 pages, colour photographs throughout, 28.2cm x 22.6cm, £19.95
ISBN 978-0907738848

Franko B: Blinded by Love
Edited and with an introduction by Dominic Johnson
Essays by Amelia Jones, Ron Athey, Jennifer Doyle, David Thorp, Vaginal Davis, Achille Bonito Oliva. Photos by Manuel Vason, Hugo Glendinning, Eva Novillo and others.
Bologna: Damiani, 2006. 256 pages, colour photographs throughout, 25cm x 31cm. £40.00
ISBN 978-8889431795

Slava Mogutin, Lost Boys
With essays by Dominic Johnson and Octavio Zaya
New York: powerHouse Books, 2006. 144 pages, colour photographs throughout, 29cm x 21.6cm. £25.00
ISBN: 978-1576873304


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