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Ron Athey

Born in 1961, Ron Athey is a Los Angeles-based artist who has been making performance works since 1981s Premature Ejaculation, an actionist/noise duo with Rozz Williams. Self-taught, Athey’s earliest works were inspired by Johanna Went, Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle, and electro-punk/queercore pioneers Nervous Gender. By the 90s the HIV/AIDS pandemic shifted response and this work, the “torture trilogy” became passion plays. In 2023 Athey and Pittakos launched an immersive art making workshop in Athens, Greece titled Darkness Visible. Current video work includes their collaborative series of post-porn-mythologies including Asclepius/Acephale, The Hierophant, and Pasiphae, Witch Queen of Crete: A Gloryhole Origin Story. Athey is represented by Murmurs Gallery, Los Angeles.

Hermes Pittakos

Hermes Pittakos (b. 1986, Larnaca, Cyprus) is an Athens-based craftsman, sculptor and performer whose multidisciplinary practice explores themes of decay, transformation, and the divine. His haunting imagery delves into boundaries between  physicality and immaterial visceral organic beauty. With a Background in Fine Art, Character Development & Prosthetics, Pittakos integrates mythology and cycles of existence into contemporary narratives, storytelling through body and sculpture both as the medium and subject.

Since 2011, Pittakos has collaborated extensively with artist Ron Athey on performances, films, sculpture pieces and workshops. Pittakos has exhibited internationally at venues such as MOCA as part of Skopje Pride, Enter Art Foundation Berlin, and Collectif Opium Paris. He is part of Fantastic Toiles, a sustainable art/fashion nomadic concept shop that supports independent artists, where he goes by Higher Sense Studio, here he continues to  evolve his sculptural and performative work by merging it with wearable fashion.

Poulomi Desai

Poulomi Desai, born in London, is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist, curator and carer, with over 30 years of work spanning performance, sound, live art, and photography. Her art explores identity, listening, and perception, influenced by her Black/Asian, Queer, and Activist background, as well as Fluxus movements and DIY post-punk. Desai co-founded Shakti, the first South Asian LGBTQ+ club and organisation, the NAZ HIV/AIDS project, and HAC, a South Asian punk performance company. Her art employs diverse media, from collage and video to bacterial photography and VLF radio noise. Known for transforming broken sitars into electronic instruments, she also uses circuit-bent toys, modified cassette decks, and more.

All ɫ�ش�ý entrances are step-free. You can enter via the Turbine Hall and into the Natalie Bell Building on Holland Street, or into the Blavatnik Building on Sumner street.

There are lifts to every floor of the Blavatnik and Natalie Bell buildings. Alternatively you can take the stairs.

• Fully accessible toilets are located on every floor on the concourses.
• A quiet room is available to use in the Natalie Bell Building on Level 4.
• Ear defenders can be borrowed from the Ticket desks.

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• Email hello@tate.org.uk
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