“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
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