AA Bronson Peter Hobbs Queer Spirits Author:AA Bronson, Peter Hobbs From 2008 to 2010, the artist AA Bronson, formerly of the General Idea collective, and Toronto-based artist and academic Peter Hobbs collaborated to convene small groups of men in various locations (Banff, AL, New Orleans, LA, Winnipeg, ON, Manhattan and Fire Island, NY) in a secret group ritual titled "Invocation of the Queer Spirits." Invoking... more » the "queer" and marginalized histories of each site in celebrations of sexuality and memorialization, the groups performed something that Bronson has characterized as "a hybrid between group therapy, ceremonial magic, a séance, a circle jerk and a quilting bee." Queer Spirits explores all five performances in five chapters of photographic essays, primarily by Bronson, together with a brilliant and frequently humorous reflection on queer animals, forest rangers, shamanism and park sex by Peter Hobbs. A series of drawings by Chicago artist Elijah Burgher completes the volume.« less