AA Bronson

2019 Exhibition Artist

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AA Bronson (born in 1946, Vancouver, Canada; lives in Berlin, Germany) is the great-grandson of Archdeacon John William Tims, the founder of Old Sun Industrial School on Siksika Nation, Alberta, and the grandson of the principal of St. George’s Residential School in Lytton, British Columbia (both schools were brutal in their treatment of Indigenous peoples). AA is a founding member of the artists’ group General Idea (1969–1994). His most recent publication is AA Bronson’s House of Shame (Edition Patrick Frey, 2021).

Exhibit

AA Bronson at 259 Lake Shore Blvd E

Bronson’s multi-year project, A Public Apology to Siksika Nation, responds to European genocide, including his great-grandfather’s role as the first missionary at Siksika Nation and founder of the Old Sun residential school. (Old Sun, an influential Siksika leader, is an ancestor of Bronson’s collaborator, Adrian Stimson.) Generated from ongoing dialogue with Stimson and extensive research […]

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September 21 – December 1, 2019

AA Bronson, A Public Apology to Siksika Nation, 2019, multi-media project with publication, installation, and performative components in several stages. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art. On view at 259 Lake Shore Blvd E as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art (2019). Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid. Courtesy the Toronto Biennial of Art.
AA Bronson, A Public Apology to Siksika Nation, 2019, multi-media project with publication, installation, and performative components in several stages. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art. On view at 259 Lake Shore Blvd E as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art (2019). Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid. Courtesy the Toronto Biennial of Art.
AA Bronson and Adrian Stimson visit the Old Sun Residential School, now a community college, on Siksika Nation reserve, March 25, 2018. Photo: Ben Miller.
AA Bronson, A Public Apology to Siksika Nation; and Adrian Stimson, Iini Sookumapii: Guess who’s coming to dinner?. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art. On view at 259 Lake Shore Blvd E as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art (2019). Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid. Courtesy the Toronto Biennial of Art.

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Program

A Public Apology to Siksika Nation

How does history become personally accountable in a post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission era? AA Bronson delivers his Apology to Siksika Nation, an atonement for his ancestors’ role in cultural genocide, while Adrian Stimson responds. Food will be shared following the performance. Image Credit: AA Bronson, A Public Apology to Siksika Nation, performance at the 2019 […]

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September 21

11:00am – 12:00pm

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