#Queerspirits

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“Queer Sprits” is an artist’s book that documents the past few years of AA Bronson’s performance as an unofficial queer shaman in “Invocation of the Queer Spirits,” a collaboration with Peter Hobbs. AA Bronson (1946 -) is an artist, healer, curator, and educator based in Toronto and Berlin. In the sixties, he founded a free school, a commune, and an underground newspaper. In 1969, Bronson formed the artists’ group General Idea with Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal. For the next 25 years, they produced living artwork of their living and working together and exhibited their work widely.  The group was known for their magazine FILE (1972-1989), “an alternative to the Alternative Press,” which focused on punk, queer theory, and AIDS activism.

Bronson was the Director of Printed Matter, Inc. in New York City from 2004 to 2010, and founded the annual NY Art Book Fair in 2005.

In “Queer Spirits,” AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs invoke the homometaphysical in New Orleans, Winnipeg, and Governors Island and Fire Island in New York. At each location they staged a unique Invocation, secret group rituals that unearth queer and marginalized spirits at each site.

The Harvard Fine Arts Library also holds File Magazine (v. 1-29) in its Special Collections. HOLLIS number: 990062723520203941

Queer spirits A.A. Bronson & Peter Hobbs. Bronson, AA, 1946- 1st ed. New York : Creative Time ; Winnipeg, Man. : Plug In Editions ; Zurich : JRP/Ringier, c2011. 176 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm. HOLLIS number: 990130723920203941

Happy Pride Month!

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World AIDS Day and the first advent Sunday, I've never thought about that combination of events before. Do I mourn what is lost, or celebrate what is to come? I think today I'll do both. I'm going to celebrate all those queer spirits, think for a while about the generation of workers, thinkers, artists and activists that we lost. Today I remember them and thank them. #worldaidsday2019 #worldaidsday #generalidea #imagevirus #keithharing #davidwojnarowicz #queerspirits (at Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5hpxJnoOrn/?igshid=17abs9g0x5861

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Queer Spirit Invocation (En & Fr) ©

(written for a ritual performance made in Paris at the queer week 2017 and in Rennes)

I, Witch and In Charge, Who welcomes the injured, Through my healing spells, With my calming hands, And with my devoted soul, I call you,

You, the urban dandelion, Courageous lion’s tooth, Whose existence is a triumph, You, the alchemical organ, Whose transmutes shame into pride, Child of the stars.

By the faggots’ shedding blood ! By the mutilation of the androgynous ! By the exile of dykes! Oh Queer Spirit I invoke you !

Witch at the Burning Stake, Seed of belladonna, And Hydra’s head, Charm of the night, And immortality,

Envied Orgasm Sacred Cyprin, Spring’s ejaculate,

You, the terror of normality, The sanctified punk, As naked as dressed, A living proof of temerity, Oh Queer Spirit I invoke you!

Mistress of magic, A change of consciousness manager, Spirit manifested, and materialized, Infuse your presence, In this room, here and now.

You, the urban dandelion, Courageous lion’s tooth, Whose existence is a triumph, You, the alchemical organ, Whose transmutes shame into pride, Child of the stars.

Turn us into a tree, With hardened bark, With an acid sap, With cicatrizing leaves, Whose roots will be deep.

Turn us into a smiley anger, Remind us that we are at the origin of freedom, Give us the furious eye of the assassin, And the corpse of our torturers. Teach us the fury to exist,

Come, In our breaths, And the black of our clothes, And when fatigue takes us, Teach us to rest.

Come! And arm us with invisible daggers, And of a burning armor made of nettles, To cross all storms.

By the brambles’ thorns, By Gods’ insolence, By Ariadne and the links she weaves, I invoke you!

Make us strong Disrespectfully happy. And I conjure you, Revive the power in us, The power behind the world, the stars, The vital force. And this for eternity. Original text :

Moi, Sorcière et responsable, Qui accueille les abîmés, Par mes sorts guérisseurs, De mes mains apaisantes, Et de mon âme dévouée, Je t’appelle,

Toi, le pissenlit des villes, Dent de lion courageux, Dont l’existence est un triomphe, Toi, l’organe alchimique, Dont la volonté transmute la honte en fierté, Enfant des étoiles.

Par le sang versé des pédés ! Par la mutilation des androgynes ! Par l’exil des gouines ! Oh Queer Spirit je t’invoque !

Sorcière sur un bûcher, Graine de belladone, Et Tête d’Hydre, Charme de la nuit, Et immortalité,

Orgasme jalousé, Cyprine sacrée, Éjaculat du printemps,

Toi la terreur des normalités, Le punk sanctifié, Aussi nu qu’habillé, Preuve vivante de témérité, Oh Queer Spirit je t’invoque !

Maîtresse de la magie, Régisseur du changement de conscience, Esprit manifesté, et matérialisé, Infuse ta présence, Dans cette pièce, ici et maintenant.

Toi, le pissenlit des villes, Dent de lion courageux, Dont l’existence est un triomphe, Toi, l’organe alchimique, Dont la volonté transmute la honte en fierté, Enfant des étoiles.

Change nous en arbre, A l’écorce endurcie, D’une sève acide, Aux feuilles cicatrisantes, Dont les racines seront profondes.

Change nous en colère souriante, Rappelle nous que nous sommes à l’origine de la liberté, Donne nous l’œil furieux de l’assassin, Et le cadavre de nos tortionnaires. Enseigne nous la fureur d’exister,

Viens, Dans nos souffles, Et le noir de nos vêtements, Et quand la fatigue nous gagne, Apprends nous à nous reposer.

Viens ! Et arme nous de poignards invisibles, Et d’une armure brûlante faite d’orties, Pour traverser tous les orages.

Par l’épine des ronces, Par l’insolence des Dieux, Par Ariane et les liens qu’elle tisse, Je t’invoque !

Rend nous fort Irrespectueusement heureux. Et je t’en conjure, Réveil le pouvoir en nous, Le pouvoir à l’origine du monde, des étoiles, De la force vitale. Et ce pour l’éternité. © 2017 Jah Egregius

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Queer Grimoire soon available in french and in english, with all the magic poetico queer empowerment ritual text we wrote.

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