AA Bronson

AA Bronson is a Canadian artist and one of the founding members of General Idea, the artist collective active from 1969 to 1994. His practice spans publishing, performance, installation, and healing, with a sustained engagement with artist-run culture, distribution, and the institutional frameworks of contemporary art. As a co-founder of Art Metropole, Bronson helped establish one of the most significant artist-run centres for the distribution of artists' publications and multiples in North America.

Publications collected here document Bronson's practice and editorial work, including anthologies, catalogues, and printed matter through which his ideas entered institutional and private circulation.

  • Original 1979 AA Bronson and Peggy Gale, eds., Performance by Artists, Art Metropole, Toronto. Softcover with white ground and bold black title typography, 'Performance by Artists' in large sans-serif type, editors' names below, Art Metropole imprint at foot. Interior page from 1979 Performance by Artists, Art Metropole. Black-and-white photograph of Ulay and Marina Abramovic in a durational performance, two nude figures facing each other with a clothed photographer between them in a narrow doorway.

    AA Bronson & Peggy Gale, eds. — Performance by Artists

    AA Bronson & Peggy Gale, eds. — Performance by Artists