Negative Thoughts is AA Bronson's first major project outside of the context of General Idea, the artist collective which he co-founded with Jorge Zontal and Felix Partz. From 1986 until the deaths of Zontal and Partz in 1994, General Idea focused on addressing the AIDS crisis. The group became known for their temporary public artworks, which used existing forms of communication and distribution, such as billboards, magazines, subway posters, television, and the Internet. The exhibition documented here combines three works by General Idea along with new works of Bronson's as a meditation on the themes of life and death in the age of AIDS. This accompanying catalogue, designed both to stand on its own and to extend the exhibition to a wider audience, combines an extended memoir with approximately 50 photographs of the artist and his friends to form an autobiographical reflection on Bronson's relation to death, AIDS, and life beyond AIDS.
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The person who wrote the description of this book had never seen it. Here is the description taken from the publisher's press release, which is accurate: "Bronson begins: "When I was younger, I considered myself 100% optimistic. But now, at the age of 53, I find myself cycnical, judgemental, and depressed." This memoir weaves together moments of trauma and intimacy, from early childhood to the recent past, to form a memoir that is "dark and deeply upsetting" (The Advocate). AA Bronson worked and lived as a member of the artists collective General Idea with Jorge Zontal and Felix Partz from 1969 to 1994. During their 25 years together "they produced an internationally acclaimed body of work that was witty, conceptual, and flagrantly gay." In their last seven years together, their work dealt almost entirely with the subject of AIDS. Both Zontal and Partz died of AIDS-related causes in 1994. The book is woven of fragments of memories: a fall down the stairs, a church for psychics, group therapy in the 60s, a motorbike accident, spreading ashes, a new age workshop for men, and the series of deaths which lie at the heart of the story. A selection of 36 color photographs divide chapters of text, and give the book an extraordinary visual richness."
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