A major contemporary live art event curated by performance artists Lee Adams and Ron Athey


Produced by the Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London, as part of the exhibition Undercover Surrealism.

The Monster in The Night of The Labyrinth featured a special re-mounting of Ron Athey’s seminal performance The Solar Anus, inspired by the same-named Georges Bataille essay, The event also featured a reworking of my own performance installation The Language of Flowers, a new work by Stav B; Realising the Marvellous in the Mundane and several short meditations by Ernst Fischer & Helen Spackman. Photograph’s courtesy of Regis Hertrich and Dominic Davies


Documentation from this event, described by Dominic Johnson in Western European Stages as “...an esoteric tour de force of unseemly erotics, half-mad splendour, beautifully morbid spectacle and florid, sumptuous excess”  is available from unbound, the Live Art Development Agency bookshop


Lee Adams, London, 2007, DVD-PAL, 55 minutes. (2nd edition, re-issued 2009)


http://thisisunbound.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_book_info&cPath=1&products_id=180

 

The Monster in the Night of the Labyrinth