Ron Athey

Wall Street during the bank panic in October 1907. Federal Hall National Memorial , with its statue of George Washington , is seen on the right.

01Lilly received early funding from the U.S. Navy and NIMH for dolphin communication research while designing his first isolation tanks.
02During his ketamine period, Lilly reported contact with entities he called ECCO — the 'Earth Coincidence Control Office' — in published accounts.
03He injected ketamine inside a floatation tank while the tank itself was submerged in a swimming pool, compounding the dissociation.

HIV-positive Ron Athey carved ritual patterns into collaborator Divinity Fudge's back, blotted the blood onto paper towels, and hoisted them over the audience on a clothesline. The NEA lost funding over it.