#aabronson

[harvardfineartslib]

“Queer Sprits” is an artist’s book that documents the past few years of AA Bronson’s performance as an unofficial queer shaman in “Invocation of the Queer Spirits,” a collaboration with Peter Hobbs. AA Bronson (1946 -) is an artist, healer, curator, and educator based in Toronto and Berlin. In the sixties, he founded a free school, a commune, and an underground newspaper. In 1969, Bronson formed the artists’ group General Idea with Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal. For the next 25 years, they produced living artwork of their living and working together and exhibited their work widely.  The group was known for their magazine FILE (1972-1989), “an alternative to the Alternative Press,” which focused on punk, queer theory, and AIDS activism.

Bronson was the Director of Printed Matter, Inc. in New York City from 2004 to 2010, and founded the annual NY Art Book Fair in 2005.

In “Queer Spirits,” AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs invoke the homometaphysical in New Orleans, Winnipeg, and Governors Island and Fire Island in New York. At each location they staged a unique Invocation, secret group rituals that unearth queer and marginalized spirits at each site.

The Harvard Fine Arts Library also holds File Magazine (v. 1-29) in its Special Collections. HOLLIS number: 990062723520203941

Queer spirits A.A. Bronson & Peter Hobbs. Bronson, AA, 1946- 1st ed. New York : Creative Time ; Winnipeg, Man. : Plug In Editions ; Zurich : JRP/Ringier, c2011. 176 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm. HOLLIS number: 990130723920203941

Happy Pride Month!

[robertknokeofficial]

Very honored to announce the other part of my forthcoming exhibition: A large scale drawing of the great AA Bronson will be on view at @cultureeditgallery in Los Angeles, opening September 2nd. cultureEdit Gallery 1105 N El Centro Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90038 @aa_bronson @caseyspooner @cultureeditgallery #aabronson #caseyspooner #robertknoke (hier: Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CS93SeHsjJJX0iiV7zUy1L7YUmo8q6SuILi8pI0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[moma-prints]

After General Idea, AA Bronson, 2018, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Acquired through the generosity of Richard Gerrig and Timothy Peterson Size: overall (closed): 18 7/16 × 19 5/16 × 3/8" (46.9 × 49 × 1 cm); sheet (each): 18 7/16 × 19 1/4" (46.8 × 48.9 cm) Medium: Book with fifty offset lithographs with screenprint cover on board

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/292765

[schuhtutehemd]

AA Bronson's Garten der Lüste at KW. #aabronson #kw #berlin #gartenderlüste 🎪 (at KW Institute for Contemporary Art)

[drawdownbooks]

Artist-Run Europe: Practice, Projects, Spaces / Available at www.draw-down.com / Part how-to manual, part history, part socio-political critique, Artist-Run Europe looks at the conditions, the organizational models, and the role of artist-led practice within contemporary art and society. It shows how artist-run practice manifests itself; how artist-run spaces are a distinctive part of visual art culture; and how they present a complex, heterogeneous and necessary set of alternatives to larger or more commercial institutions. How are artist-run spaces organized? How is value ascribed to these often transitory practices, and is this value recognized within the field? What do artist-run spaces add to the ecology of the civil society? Can artist-run spaces develop and be sustained without the need to institutionalize? Questions such as these are addressed by contributors including Jason E. Bowman, #AABronson #NoelleCollins #ValerieConnor #JoannaLaws #FreekLomme #MegsMorley #GavinWade and #KatherineWaugh / Edited by artists/curators #GavinMurphy and #MarkCullen this book contains an expansive and detailed index of artist-run spaces in Europe. #graphicdesign #typography #artists #artistrun

[worldfoodbooks]

NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: FILE VOL.4 NO.2 FALL 1979 : "TRANSGRESSIONS" (1979) • FILE Megazine (published 1972–1989) was a quarterly, then irregularly published art and culture magazine, written, edited and published primarily by members of General Idea (AA Bronson, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal). • The visual design and identity of FILE Megazine was a deliberate appropriation of LIFE Magazine. FILE's initial logo was the white block letters on red rectangle of the LIFE logo, with the letters re-arranged. This corresponded with the group's desire that the magazine be a “parasite within the world of magazine distribution”. The familiarity of the format would entice a broad range of unsuspecting readers outside the art- or mail-art worlds (including LIFE readers) to pick it up from newsstands. Initially the magazine served a dual purpose. It was a record and site of activity for the international mail/correspondence-art movement - the first mail-art project in magazine format. It was also the mouthpiece of General Idea, with editorials for each issue written by the group, elaborating on the group's core conceptual principles. The writing style of these editorials is noteworthy for its heavily ironic use of language, a parody of advertising copy, laced with double-entendres. Over the years the focus of FILE Megazine broadened to include the wider arts, culture and entertainment world, as General Idea's founders moved increasingly among the New York downtown circles of the 70s and 80s. • This "TRANSGRESSIONS" issue (edited by General Idea and Rodney Werden) includes Kathy Acker, Guy Hocquenghem, David Byrne, Jean Genet, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Colin Campbell, Francesco Clemente, The Clichettes, Robert Mapplethorpe, Martha and the Muffins, and others. Features the famous Nazi Milk Glass cover by General Idea. • More details on our website. One copy. • #worldfoodbooks #FILE #GeneralIdea #aabronson #felixpartz #jorgezontal #robertmapplethorpe #kathyacker #guyhocquenghem #jeangenet #1979 (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)

[abitmoredetail]

AIDS, General Idea, 1988 #toronto #artgalleryofontario #generalidea #aabronson #jorgezontal #felixpartz #aids #hivaids #popart (at AGO - Art Gallery of Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCMHngNgjDw/?igshid=nj0mq7je551q

[burninginwaterart]

A “Ziggurat” is a step-like form in Mesopotamian architecture, often used on temples to represent an interface of humans with the gods. General Idea, Shaped Ziggurat Painting #1, 1986, fluorescent acrylic, acrylic and latex on unprimed canvas. #generalidea #felixpartz #jorgezontal #aabronson #artistcollective #conceptualart #toronto #nyc #gallery @miandn #ziggurat (at Mitchell-Innes & Nash)

[randian]

General Idea Copyright (Blue) #1, 1987-88 @mai36galerie #generalidea #aabronson #mai36galerie #fiac #randianmagazine (at Grand Palais Champs Elyssee) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3uIdLGl5ff/?igshid=1yto16z6zhuf

[carlwilliamsrarebooks]

Rough, impulsive snap of #aabronson #occult #exlibris in a chance meeting with #russeltamblyn #crowleyanity figure

[1000sassa1000]

AABronson& Bradford Kessler

Return of the Prodigal Son, 2012

[journeytothecenterofmyminduk]

AA Bronson & General Idea @maureen_paley Until November 11th London _____________________________________ #aabronson #generalidea #maureenpaley #london #contemporaryart #installationart #painting (en Maureen Paley) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpHkl9DFUUW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pfn5phuo9gxq

[robertknokeofficial]

Beautiful day today with the great AA Bronson @aa_bronson and Mark Krayenhoff van de Leur @mjkvdl . (AA in front of his painting, holding the new print edition I did of two portraits of him that I originally drew years ago in New York.) ❤️ #aabronson (hier: Fasanenstraße) https://www.instagram.com/p/B09C__cgBmTQfHUAshklbcq2Su3Doa42RVrTfo0/?igshid=3nolu8tgng3r

[amirshariat]

First show of General Idea in New York since 1986 opened last night at Mitcell-Ines&Nash #generalidea #newyork #aabronson #zigurat #mitchellinnesandnash (at Mitchell-Innes & Nash)

[noahlyon]

Thanks to the 38,000 people that came to the LA Art Book this year! It was really fantastic! Super thanks to Shannon, Jordan, Printed Matter and the MoCA staff for making it all happen. Special thanks to AA Bronson for starting this beautiful phenomenon with the NY Art Book Fair back in 2006, I'm very proud to have been a part of it since its inception. Sixteen fairs in total! Love you all, thank you! #LAABF #AABronson #NoahLyon (at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA)

[drawdownbooks]

Artist-Run Europe: Practice, Projects, Spaces / Available at www.draw-down.com / Part how-to manual, part history, part socio-political critique, Artist-Run Europe looks at the conditions, the organizational models, and the role of artist-led practice within contemporary art and society. It shows how artist-run practice manifests itself; how artist-run spaces are a distinctive part of visual art culture; and how they present a complex, heterogeneous and necessary set of alternatives to larger or more commercial institutions. How are artist-run spaces organized? How is value ascribed to these often transitory practices, and is this value recognized within the field? What do artist-run spaces add to the ecology of the civil society? Can artist-run spaces develop and be sustained without the need to institutionalize? Questions such as these are addressed by contributors including Jason E. Bowman, #AABronson #NoelleCollins #ValerieConnor #JoannaLaws #FreekLomme #MegsMorley #GavinWade and #KatherineWaugh / Edited by artists/curators #GavinMurphy and #MarkCullen this book contains an expansive and detailed index of artist-run spaces in Europe. #graphicdesign #typography #artists #artistrun