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AA Bronson

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Can You Apologize to an Entire Indigenous Nation?

by Andrea Rose Lacalamita October 22, 2020October 11, 2021

Is public apology a practice that should be abandoned, or should it be reimagined? Looking at AA Bronson’s “A Public Apology to Siksika Nation” provides some guidance.

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Inaugural Toronto Biennial Focuses on Climate While Dismantling Eurocentric Ideas

by Renée Reizman and Eunice Bélidor October 22, 2019October 29, 2019

In The Shoreline Dilemma curators Candice Hopkins and Tairone Bastien offer a consideration of “climate” that spans the tangible environment to the social. Here are some highlights to catch before the Biennial closes on December 1.

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AA Bronson Reflects on Rochdale College, His Family’s Colonial History, and General Idea

Avatar photo by Dorian Batycka November 28, 2018November 27, 2018

At 72, AA Bronson — co-founder of Toronto-based art collective General Idea, creator of the NY Art Book Fair, and former executive director of Printed Matter — is busier than ever.

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How General Idea Got Specific to Confront the AIDS Crisis

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado December 20, 2016December 21, 2016

A retrospective in Mexico City traces the Canadian trio’s evolution from Fluxus-inflected performance directives to twists on commercial objects and images directly addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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Rose Petal Mandalas, Queer Trauma, and Spiritually Intense Blowjobs

by Matthias Herrmann November 26, 2015December 1, 2015

VIENNA — How to tell the story of these exhibitions, filled with so many works by AA and his friends and collaborators, including installations, collaborative works, performances, and even an exhibition within the exhibition?

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Pick Up Our Awesome Limited-Edition Zine at the NY Art Book Fair, “Asshole”

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian September 17, 2015September 19, 2015

At the opening of Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair tonight, we’re launching a zine to help you navigate the fair and its many treasures.

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US History, Queer Life, and Witchcraft: How AA Bronson, Somehow, Comes Together

Avatar photo by Francesco Dama May 4, 2015May 10, 2015

LONDON — Hexenmeister, AA Bronson’s first solo show at Maureen Paley, calls to mind his recent House of Shame at the Gwangju Biennial, featuring Bronson’s particular combination of queer themes and shamanic practices.

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An Ecology of Affect and Desire: AA Bronson’s ‘House of Shame’

by Vassilis Oikonomopoulos November 7, 2014November 9, 2014

GWANGJU, South Korea — I visited AA Bronson’s House of Shame with a feeling of intense excitement and curiosity.

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AA Bronson on Queer Collaborations, Shamanism, and Korean History

by Stuart Comer October 9, 2014October 12, 2014

GWANGJU, South Korea — For the past several years, AA Bronson’s work has drawn on the acute awareness of radical pedagogies and alternative economies that he developed as a member of the Canadian artists collective General Idea.

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The Autobiography of Mark Jan Krayenhoff van de Leur

by AA Bronson September 26, 2014October 9, 2014

GWANGJU, South Korea — I have never been to South Korea before. Jessica Morgan warned that it would be hot and sweaty and of course Gwangju was exactly that — tropical!

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Peeking into the LA Art Book Fair’s Queer Zine Show

by Alicia Eler February 3, 2014February 6, 2014

LOS ANGELES — The LA Art Book Fair is for those who cannot afford to buy art. That includes everyone from recent MFAs to working artists, writers and curators, and collectors who like objects that take up space on the coffee table — not the wall.

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The Consolation of Temptation

by Mark Sheerin September 18, 2013September 20, 2013

ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands — The greatest temptations, in a show called The Temptation of AA Bronson, are not epicurean, sensual, or even sexual. Instead the visitor is torn between mysticism and reason, knowing that perhaps too much of either could be unbalanced.

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