George and Dragon Public House is honoured to present an exhibition by
General Idea
at White Cubicle Toilet Gallery
Thursday November 9, 2006, 7 to 11 PM
With special contribution by assume vivid astro focus in the pub space

Co-curated by Stefan Kalmar and Beatrix Ruf
in collaboration with Kunstverein Munich and Kunsthalle Zurich

George and Dragon, 2 Hackney Road, London E2 www.myspace.com/georgeanddragon
General Idea website: www.aabronson.com/art/gi.org

General Idea was founded in Toronto in 1969 by AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal. Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal both died of AIDS in 1994. AA Bronson works as a solo artist today and manages the artists’ bookshop Printed Matter, Inc. in New York. For the past years he has been training as a butt massage therapist and “healer”.

General Idea’s critical enquiry into the relationship of art and the media, art and the market and art and AIDS, and more specifically into questions of identity and copyright as well as their practice of collective and autonomous modes of working and living, questions that are highly topical especially for a younger generation of artists.

For their exhibition at the White Cubicle, General Idea has covered the Toilet with their 1987 silk screened wallpaper, a work that appropriated Robert Indiana’s classical 1967 pop work LOVE, and gave visibility in the streets to the then recent phenomena of AIDS. In the same way the Magic Bullets, silver retroviral pill-balloons, give hope to finding a cure to the infection.

For their exhibition at White Cubicle, George and Dragon has invited assume vivid astro focus to do a collaboration in the pub space. Their 1995, SODOMY IS NOT A CIVIL RIGHT balloons, were produced as a response to right wing homophobic politics.

General Idea at White Cubicle is an extension of the exhibition GENERAL IDEA: FOUND FORMATS at Kunsthalle Zurich, 11 November 2006 - 7 January 2007 www.kunsthallezurich.ch

Special thanks to AA Bronson, avaf, Blow de la Barra Gallery, Nuno Antunes, Liliana Sanguino and Richard Battye
Dj of the night: Seb Patane