Artist

General Idea

1969–1994 · Canadian artist collective

General Idea was Canadian artist collective associated with Conceptual art; queer art. Across Installation; video; publishing; performance, the work investigates media, branding and institutional language appropriated to examine celebrity, sexuality and the AIDS crisis. Meaning develops through the relationship between process, display and lived cultural experience rather than through a single signature motif.

Conceptual art; queer art