Ron Athey's oddly moving performance art piece makes us stare at our own mortalityAt first sight, the intricately tattooed naked male body trapped on the metal rack could be a corpse. Hooks in his cheeks pull back his skin and pinion him to the frame. On his chin there's an Egyptian-style beard, although it's unlikely that any Egyptian king went to the afterlife impaled on a baseball bat.There is both a vulnerability…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM on June 2, 2014