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World AIDS Day 2021 with AA Bronson and General Idea in collaboration with CIRCA
Global December 1 – 31, 2021 www.circa.art
AA Bronson and General Idea, VideoVirus, 2021, London, Piccadilly Lights rendering. Rendering © CIRCA
Watch now: an exclusive documentary on AA Bronson, General Idea, and VideoVirus from CIRCA
Launching World AIDS Day, 1 Dec 2021, CIRCA presents VideoVirus, a powerful new film by AA Bronson and General Idea. Reimagining their historic Imagevirus for a global audience, the artwork comes to life in a hypnotic video animation that virally transmits their activist message across billboards in London, Milan, New York, Seoul & Tokyo.
Throughout December, CIRCA is proud to partner with UNAIDS and Terrence Higgins Trust to mark 40 years since the disease was first recorded in 1981. A new work by AA Bronson, the sole surviving member of the General Idea art group, draws inspiration from the viral intentions of Imagevirus, which in the mid-1980s spread consciousness of the epidemic by reappropriating Robert Indiana's famous LOVE logo, virally transmitting the AIDS symbol through cities in the form of paintings, sculptures, videos, posters, and exhibitions. -
Podcast: AA Bronson speaks with The Art Newspaper
Photo © Piotr Porebski
On the occasion of Berlin Art Week 2020, The Art Newspaper spoke with AA Bronson about participating in one of the big shows opening during the week, at the legendary Berghain nightclub, and about his experience of living in the city.
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Art Basel Conversations Program with AA Bronson
Art Basel Miami Beach December 5, 2019, 5 pm
Photo © Andrea Rossetti
Stonewall at 50: Has LGBTQIA+ culture been normalized?
Art Basel Conversations Program with AA Bronson, Lotic, Carlos Motta, and Sharmistha Ray
Moderator: Stuart Comer, Chief Curator of the Department of Media and Performance at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art.
December 5, 2019, 5 pm – 6 pm
More information on the event can be found HERE.
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AA Bronson at the Toronto Biennial of Art
59 Lake Shore Blvd E, Toronto September 21 – December 1, 2019 www.torontobiennial.org
Archdeacon John W. Tims, ca. 1896-1899
Courtesy the Glenbow Archives, Calgary, AlbertaA Public Apology to Siksika Nation, AA Bronson's project for the first Toronto Biennial of Art, originates in family stories about his great-grandfather, the first missionary to the Siksika (Blackfoot) Nation, stories that do not agree with recorded (white) history. Many years of research have resulted in a book, a performance and an installation that together explore the generational trauma that has resulted from the colonization of the Canadian Prairies. Adrian Stimson is the great-grandson of Old Sun, the famous chief of the same period; he responds to AA Bronson's Apology with an installation and sculptures, generated in close dialogue with residential school survivors and leaders, to reveal the layers of colonization and Indigenous resistance in his community.
More information can be found HERE.
