One Day of AZT and One Year of AZT
“Our life was full of pills,” AA Bronson recalled of the early 1990s, “so they became part of our work.” At first, General Idea made a set of three pill-Shaped sculptures named after the drugs Amoxicillin, Bacampicillin and Carbenicillin. The pills kept replicating. The five coffin-sized units in One Day of AZT reference the daily dose of antiviral drug Felix Partz was taking. One Year of AZT represents his annual dosage: 1825 pills, which he called his “little helpers.”
Elegiac and quietly moving, these two works were made near the end of General Idea’s practice. The installation is intended to overwhelm, enfolding is in a pharmacological universe.
One Day of AZT and One Year of AZT
“Our life was full of pills,” AA Bronson recalled of the early 1990s, “so they became part of our work.” At first, General Idea made a set of three pill-Shaped sculptures named after the drugs Amoxicillin, Bacampicillin and Carbenicillin. The pills kept replicating. The five coffin-sized units in One Day of AZT reference the daily dose of antiviral drug Felix Partz was taking. One Year of AZT represents his annual dosage: 1825 pills, which he called his “little helpers.”
Elegiac and quietly moving, these two works were made near the end of General Idea’s practice. The installation is intended to overwhelm, enfolding is in a pharmacological universe.