General Idea, Playing Doctor

General Idea was a collective of three Canadian artists, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson, who were active from 1969 to 1994, initially in Toronto; from 1986 through 1993 they divided their time between Toronto and New York before returning to Toronto for the last few months of their time together. Pioneers of conceptual and media-based art, their collaboration became a model for artist-initiated activities and a prominent influence on later generations of artists. Image File history File links Generalidea. ... Image File history File links Generalidea. ... General Idea, Playing Doctor General Idea was a collective of three Canadian artists, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson, who were active from 1969 to 1994, initially in Toronto; from 1986 through 1993 they divided their time between Toronto and New York before returning to Toronto for the last... General Idea, Playing Doctor General Idea was a collective of three Canadian artists, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and A.A. Bronson, who were active from 1969 to 1994. ... General Idea, Playing Doctor General Idea was a collective of three Canadian artists, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson, who were active from 1969 to 1994. ... For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...

General Idea's work inhabited and subverted forms of popular and media culture, including beauty pageants, boutiques, television talk shows, trade fair pavilions and media. Their work was often presented in unconventional media forms such as postcards, prints, posters, wallpaper, balloons, crests and pins. From 1987 through 1994 their work addressed the AIDS crisis, with work that included some 75 temporary public art projects. Their major installation, One Year of AZT/One Day of AZT, was featured as a project at the Museum of Modern Art and now resides in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. Most recently, the three giant inflatable pills from their 1991 work PLA©EBO were displayed during Toronto's 2006 Nuit blanche. A beauty contest, or beauty pageant, is a competition between people, based largely, though not always entirely, on the beauty of their physical appearance. ... Look up boutique in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... British postal card, used in 1890 A postcard or post card is typically a rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended for writing and mailing without an envelope and at a lower rate than a letter. ... Printing is an industrial process for reproducing copies of texts and images, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. ... Poster from the Spanish Revolution A poster is any large piece of printed paper which hangs from a wall or other such surface. ... Mary Cassatts painting of two ladies drinking tea in a room with red-blue striped wallpapers. ... Balloons, like greeting cards or flowers, are given for special occasions. ... In heraldry, a crest is a component of a coat of arms. ... PIN can mean different things: Personal identification number Postal Index Number Personal Internet Name. ... Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). ... View across garden, in new MoMA building by Yoshio Taniguchi. ... National Gallery of Canada on Canada Day. ... Nuit Blanche (White Night in English) is an annual all-night cultural festival. ...

Retrospectives of General Idea's work toured Europe and North America in 1984-85 and again in 1992-93. More recently, a retrospective of all of General Idea's editions from 1968 through 1995 has toured North America and Europe, including the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Munich Kunstverein, Kunstwerke (Berlin),the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo in Sevilla [1] and the Kunsthalle Zurich. General Idea has been featured in the Paris, Sydney, Sao Paulo and Venice Biennales, as well as Documenta (1982). The Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh are operated by the Carnegie Institute and located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ...

Both Partz and Zontal died of AIDS in 1994. Bronson continues to work and exhibit as an independent artist, living and working in New York. The General Idea Archive now resides at the Library of the National Gallery of Canada. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...

Canadian musician Peaches recorded a song entitled "Felix Partz" on her album The Teaches of Peaches. A Peaches promotional photo. ... The Teaches of Peaches is an album by Peaches, released in 2000 (see 2000 in music). ...

External links

• General Idea
• AA Bronson
• Interview with AA Bronson and Felix Partz
• General Idea: Found Formats at Kunsthalle Zurich. Documentary video at Vernissage TV.
• Text on The Boutique of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, by Lilian Tone