3 Questions with AA Bronson


Artist, writer, and activist AA Bronson on vocation, engagement, and going solo.


The MFA in Visual Studies welcomes AA Bronson as part of the 2012-2013 Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series. You can also listen to a podcast of AA Bronson’s lecture.

“Artists don’t have careers.
They have vocations.”


Photo courtesy of the artist.


Artists don’t have careers, they have vocations. If you are looking for a career, best to consider some other path through life.


I don’t have a “creative practice.” I just do what I am driven to do. I am motivated because I am engaged; I am engaged because I don’t know any other way to be in the world.


I lived and worked for 25 years as one of three artists of General Idea. My two partners, Jorge and Felix, both died at home in 1994 of AIDS-related causes. In learning how to be a solo artist after years of collaboration, I started from what I knew: the fact of their deaths.


by Killeen Hanson, MFA ACD '12

— Posted on 10/02 at 11:00 AM

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