General Idea

General Idea

One of my favorite conceptual art groups, General Idea has a web site. General Idea was a Toronto based collaborative of three artists who put together installations, performances, boutiques, and manifestos. From ARTFORUM on FILE MEGAZINE:

the three began working under another signature rubric, “Miss General Idea.” A 1971 altered photograph, which they called their “artist’s conception,” figures her as a transvestite, rubber-outfitted version of Hugo Ball at Cabaret Voltaire. Miss General Idea functioned as the group’s muse, and General Idea hosted a series of Miss General Idea beauty pageants that set out in countercultural fashion “to (capture) glamour without falling into it.” (Art in America, March 2005)

Two of the three have since died, only AA Bronson is still alive and working.