zürich moves! - lectures and discussions: AA Bronson
Lectures and symposia
February 11, 2016
04:17 pm
– 05:17 pm
AA Bronson: Queer Spirits
Presented by Robert Steinberger.
Lectures and discussions as part of zürich moves! (16.–19.03.), festival for contemporary arts practice in performing arts
(free admission, limited seating, in English)
"As I write this text, sitting in my home on Fasanenstraße in Berlin-Charlottenburg, I wonder how best to describe a lecture that I have not yet devised. And yet it is self-evident how the lecture will emerge: as a series of images, drawn from the 60s to today, in which I am the central character; as a narrative, in which collaboration, community, glamour, AIDS, queer theory, death and dying, shamanism, and intergenerational sex all play a part. No doubt you, the audience, will see me in a variety of roles: from a skinny naked hippy to an aging nude shaman; as MC in the 1971 Miss General Idea Pageant; painting with poodles; invoking the spirits of the dead. I presented my first public performance in 1966; I cannot remember the title but I remember the scene well. Fifty years later I realize that not much has changed. I am still delight in art as living and life as art. I dedicate this lecture to those who are no longer with us and those who are with us still. We are a community of the living and the dead." AA Bronson
Presented by Robert Steinberger.
Lectures and discussions as part of zürich moves! (16.–19.03.), festival for contemporary arts practice in performing arts
(free admission, limited seating, in English)
"As I write this text, sitting in my home on Fasanenstraße in Berlin-Charlottenburg, I wonder how best to describe a lecture that I have not yet devised. And yet it is self-evident how the lecture will emerge: as a series of images, drawn from the 60s to today, in which I am the central character; as a narrative, in which collaboration, community, glamour, AIDS, queer theory, death and dying, shamanism, and intergenerational sex all play a part. No doubt you, the audience, will see me in a variety of roles: from a skinny naked hippy to an aging nude shaman; as MC in the 1971 Miss General Idea Pageant; painting with poodles; invoking the spirits of the dead. I presented my first public performance in 1966; I cannot remember the title but I remember the scene well. Fifty years later I realize that not much has changed. I am still delight in art as living and life as art. I dedicate this lecture to those who are no longer with us and those who are with us still. We are a community of the living and the dead." AA Bronson