Monday - The Warehouse

10am - Intro Warehouse, Current Exhibition, And Mid-day Activities

Morning Powerpoint

(Session 2, includes 3 additional slides)

2pm – Artwork Connections

3-4pm – Zoom Happy Hour (optional)

Meeting ID: 865 2035 2535
Password: 658370

Mid-Day Activity

For the mid-day activity, watch videos and read interviews/essays about three artists in the exhibition Psychic Wounds: On Art and Trauma at The Warehouse. Then, complete the worksheet in preparation for the afternoon discussion.

Part 1/4 – General Idea

General Idea was a collective of three Canadian artists—Felix Partz (1945–1994), Jorge Zontal (1944–1994), and AA Bronson (born 1946)—who worked together from 1967 to 1994. The group was formed in Toronto, moving to New York City in 1986, where they shifted the focus of their work from conceptual and media-based art to art addressing the AIDS epidemic. General Idea designed their work AIDS in 1986, appropriating the design from Robert Indiana’s famous work LOVE. Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal passed away in 1994 from complications due to AIDS, and AA Bronson continues to work as an independent artist.

General Idea, (Canadian), AIDS (Wallpaper), 1988, Hand–screenprinted wallpaper, Courtesy the artist and Maureen Paley, London

Next, read two short essays related to General Idea and their work AIDS. The first is an article from The New York Times about the origins of Robert Indiana’s artwork LOVE. The second is an essay about AA Bronson’s portraits of Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal, written by Andy Patton, an artist and a friend of Partz.

Part 2/4 – Mona Hatoum

Mona Hatoum was born in Beirut to Palestinian parents in 1952 and lives in London. Her work uses elements of minimalism and surrealism to explore connections and contradictions related to the body, home, and society.

Mona Hatoum (British Palestinian, b. 1952), Silence, 1994, Laboratory glass tubes, The Rachofsky Collection

Next, read a conversation between Hatoum and artist Janine Antoni for BOMB Magazine.

Part 3/4 – Kevin Beasley

Kevin Beasley was born in 1985 in Virginia and currently lives in Queens, New York. He works in a wide variety of media, including sculpture, installation, video, sound, and performance.

Kevin Beasley, (American, born 1985), The Dance, 2019, Polyurethane resin, raw Virginia cotton, housedresses, kaftans, t–shirts, du–rags, altered housedresses, altered kaftans, altered t–shirts, altered garments, and stainless steel fasteners, Courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York

Next, read the interview with Beasley from Art in America in 2014.

Part 4/4 – Worksheet

Kevin Beasley was born in 1985 in Virginia and currently lives in Queens, New York. He works in a wide variety of media, including sculpture, installation, video, sound, and performance.