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Wycliffe Simmons

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3/3-31 @simresidency 🇮🇸
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8/22-23 @briskfestival
7/18 @welcometolace x @ladanceproject
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Thank you @ronathey_4 for inviting me to create the sound design & live cello score for Table of Contents: A Life in 33 Chapters, presented by @welcometolace as part of RESILIENCE at @ladanceproject
Using the structure of a table of contents, the work unfolds as a spoken-word autobiography for a memoir that may never be written. Across 33 chapters, it abbreviates and elongates Pentecostal childhood, family mythology, exile, post-porn, Los Angeles’ punk underground, the early years of AIDS, and decades of performance, ending with the messianic 33: “the pathos of the wounded healer.”

It was such a privilege to build a sonic world around this living archive.

Curated by @selene__preciado
Presented by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Photo documentation by @angeloriggi , 2026

#ladanceproject #ronathey #losangelescontemporaryexhibitions taken in L.A. Dance Project by @wicksimmons

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in the moment improv from Exquisite Drones with @wet__hands (2 parts!)

tender moment from Exquisite Drones
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EXQUISITE DRONES
Created by @wicksimmons
Presented by Dutch Kills Theater & The Tank
Composed by Jack McGuire, inti figgis-vizueta, Conrad Tao.
Performed by Wick Simmons and Jack McGuire
Scenic Design: @mrazzle.dazzle
Lighting Design: @iamitohane
Video Design: @laur400
Programmer: @ultrablacki
Movement Director: Danita Shaheen
Recorded Voices: Arga Reath and Blake Habermann
Production Coordinator: @sienayusi

Supported by @aquinnfoundation

📸 @findthelightphotography

#anthonyquinn #dutchkillstheater #thetank #thetanknyc #exquisitedrones #dronemusic #conradtao #intifiggisvizueta #jackmcguire #wicksimmons #newmusic #theatre @murraykuun_guitars taken in The Tank by @wicksimmons

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moments from my track “Quiver” for @circuitmom @ IML’s Victory Party at House of Blues Chicago! @hobchicago . 🔞 posted on SoundCloud! Thank you everyone involved with making this project, especially to @djjimchicago for all of your input 🫶🏼

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#IML #internationalmisterleather #houseofblues #dirtytalk #circuitmom #techno #kink #quiver #techhousemusic #edm #gay #circuit #circuitparty #electronicmusic #cello #sexsounds #soundcloud taken in House of Blues Chicago by @wicksimmons

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Next Spring I am excited to share that I’ve been offered a month residency with the @simresidency programme in Reykjavík, Iceland! 🇮🇸 🥶 I’ll be developing a durational work for cello, electronics, & light, turning Iceland’s winter daylight into sound through sonic photosynthesis. 🤓🔆

Excited to explore, experiment, and meet with artists from around the world. Thank you, SÍM ❄️

📸 @titilayoayangade @titilayoplayscello taken in Reykjavík, Iceland by @wicksimmons

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Fragmentalism: thank you @rubendarioartist & DWR for having me taken in Beverly Hills, California by @wicksimmons

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The Second Self at @briskfestival taken in Brisk Festival by @wicksimmons

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THE SECOND SELF: A boy haunted by a past that follows him into adulthood moves through the formative space between identity, trauma, and the bonds that shape who we become.

LA PREMIERE
August 22 & 23 • Brisk Festival @briskfestival
The Morgan-Wixson Theater • Santa Monica

Written by Hadrian Shawn Miguel
Co-directed by Hadrian Shawn Miguel & David Ty Reza
Live score & electronics by Wick Simmons @wicksimmons

Starring David Ty Reza • Enrique Quintero • Emma Valdez

Tickets ⬇️

https://sl1nk.com/blueprogram

https://tinyurl.com/mr4ytpum

#TheSecondSelf #BriskFestival #LATheatre #santamonica taken in Morgan-Wixson Theater by @wicksimmons

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my two fav backstage shots by @raggiobarrera from @welcometolace x @ladanceproject

textures, chains & raw hydes…👀

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@ronathey_4 work-man boots 💋

#cello #leather #boots taken in Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions by @wicksimmons

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We are honored to introduce Ron Athey, one of the performers in “RESILIENCE,” LACE’s upcoming performance art program.

This Saturday, July 18, from 7–10 PM, LACE returns to L.A. Dance Project (@ladanceproject) for an evening of re-stagings and new work by courageous survivors of illness, displacement, migration, or violence. Alongside Athey will be performances by Nao Bustamante, Gabrielle Civil, Johanna Hedva, Miller Robinson, and Kyoko Takenaka.

Ron Athey has been making performance works since 1981’s “Premature Ejaculation” (with partner Rozz Williams). The intersection of the HIV/AIDS pandemic with the body modification scene drove his 1990s stage work, the morbidity and strong community of this time begat the “torture trilogy,” theater based works with a cast of eight+ presented widely in the UK, EU, premiering at LACE in 1992, and onwards to ICA London; ExTeresa CDMX, SIGMA Bordeaux FR. “The Solar Anus” was Athey’s first solo performance in 1998. This 20 minute action was presented widely, its final showing at the Hayward Gallery London in 2006. Other solos include “Self-Obliteration,” and the “Incorruptible Flesh” series, described as the post-AIDS body/Epitaph.

A reclamation of the ecstatic [Pentecostal] voice was fully explored in “The Judas Cradle: An Operatic Duo Drama” (2004-6), developed with Juliana Snapper. “Gifts of the Spirit” with Opera Povera, was installed the Cathedral of Saint Vibiana in 2018. Carmina Escobar was the primi in this work and this kicked off a series of collabs leading up to their current project, “Vox Clamantis.” Two monographs on Athey’s work are 2013’s “Pleading In the Blood” and 2021’s “Queer Communion,” both on Intellect Press, followed by the same-titled survey show at Participant Inc. NYC and ICA LA in 2021. Ron Athey’s archive is at the Getty Center, his visual arts represented by Murmurs Gallery, Los Angeles.

Tickets are SOLD OUT. If you are no longer able to attend or need to update your attendance count, please cancel/update your order or DM us so we can give your spot to someone else. Walk-ins are welcome, but admission is not guaranteed.

Continued in comments. taken in L.A. Dance Project by @wicksimmons

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pleading in the blood of christ & aspiring culture scandals with @ronathey_4 for @welcometolace RESILIENCE at @ladanceproject
🙌🏼🩸 taken in L.A. Dance Project by @wicksimmons

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@realshawnsmith by @wicksimmons

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