General Idea
Life & Work by Sarah E. K. Smith
30. Louise Dompierre, interview transcript, New York City, July 26, 1991: 2, Manuscripts Series, Manuscripts for Publications and Artworks, General Idea fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, Ottawa. 31. Louise Dompierre, interview transcript, New York City, July 26, 1991: 17, Manuscripts Series, Manuscripts for Publications and Artworks, General Idea fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, Ottawa. 32. Frédéric Bonnet quoted in Sara Angel,“ How General Idea Predicted the Future,” Maclean’ s, July 28, 2011, http:// www. macleans. ca / culture / how-general-idea-predicted-the-future. 33. Louise Dompierre, interview transcript, New York City, July 26, 1991: 6, Manuscripts Series, Manuscripts for Publications and Artworks, General Idea fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, Ottawa. 34. Louise Dompierre, interview transcript, New York City, July 26, 1991: 4, Manuscripts Series, Manuscripts for Publications and Artworks, General Idea fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, Ottawa. 35. AA Bronson,“ Interview with Anne Pasternak and AA Bronson,” Creative Time( October 2008), http:// creativetime. org / programs / archive / 2008 / invocation / interview. html. 36. Louise Dompierre, interview transcript, New York City, July 26, 1991: 4, Manuscripts Series, Manuscripts for Publications and Artworks, General Idea fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, Ottawa. 37. AA Bronson, interview with Paul O’ Neill, NDP # 3( 2006), 2, http:// www. northdrivepress. com / interviews / NDP3 / NDP3 _ BRONSON _ ONEILL. pdf. 38. AA Bronson, interview with Paul O’ Neill, NDP # 3( 2006), 2, http:// www. northdrivepress. com / interviews / NDP3 / NDP3 _ BRONSON _ ONEILL. pdf. 39. As AA Bronson notes, at this point, the concept of an artist-run centre did not exist. Bronson, correspondence with author, January 3, 2016. 40. Art Metropole was also organized as part of Art Official Inc. 41. AA Bronson, correspondence with author, January 3, 2016. 42. AA Bronson, correspondence with author, January 3, 2016. 43. This location served as General Idea headquarters until 1993. AA Bronson, correspondence with author, January 3, 2016. 44. The destruction of the Pavillion was reflected in the 1977 – 78 exhibition Reconstructing Futures, first displayed at Carmen Lamanna Gallery in Toronto. As the catalogue explained:“ What had been conceived as staged pageantry evolves as the plot twists into a classic tragedy.” See“ Recon-Futures Catalogue and Installation,” 1978, Decomposition, Manuscripts for Publications and Artworks, Manuscripts Series, General Idea fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives. 45. The music in Hot Property is credited to the Dishes, a Toronto punk band that was part of the Queen West scene in the 1970s. Notably, General Idea had numerous and significant connections to punk and new wave music in this period; for instance, working with bands including Rough Trade. Further connections can be seen through Art Metropole, which at the time was a key location in Toronto from which to access imported punk singles. General Idea also published a special issue of FILE titled“ Punk’ Til You Puke,” vol. 3, no. 4( Fall 1977). For information on the Dishes and their connection to General Idea, see Sam Sutherland,“ Hot Property: The Dishes and the Northern Origins of Queercore,” in Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk( Toronto: ECW Press, 2012), 94 – 107. 46. General Idea, Hot Property, 1980.
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