A.K. Burns : negative space / [curated by Kelly Kivland] ; edited by Karen Kelly & Barbara Schroeder ; contributions by Mel Y. Chen, CAConrad, Aruna d'Souza, Megan Hicks, and Simone White ; conversation with Karen Archey.
Publisher:
Dancing Foxes Pressin association with Wexner Center for the Arts,
Copyright Date:
2023
Description:
167 pages : color illustrations, photographs ; 26 cm
Published on the occasion of the exhibition, "A.K. Burns: of space we are...." at the Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio, February 11-July 9, 2023.
Contents:
Foreword / Kelly Kivland and Gaetane Verna -- To think and feel a then and there : A.K. Burns's Negative Space / Aruna D'Souza -- Two step / Simone White -- A smeary spot / Karen Archey in conversation with A.K. Burns -- What is the right container for a life? / Mel Y. Chen -- Living room / Karen Archey in conversation with A.K. Burns -- Black earths : grounding in the z-axis / Megan Hicks -- Leave no trace / Karen Archey in conversation with A.K. Burns -- Landscape poems / CAConrad -- What is perverse is liquid / Karen Archey in conversation with A.K. Burns -- Artist's acknowledgments -- Afterword / Gaetane Verna -- Biographies.
Summary:
Deploying science fiction, material feminism, eco-anarchism, queer theory and technoscience, New York-based artist A.K. Burns (born 1975) explores the fraught relationships between humanity and nature in an epic multimedia work, Negative Space (2015-23). This nonlinear allegory provokes questions about marginalized bodies, environmental fragility and technology. Developed as a cycle of four video installations, Negative Space imagines new relationships to the spaces we occupy and the impact of our bodies in these spaces through imagery, research and critical and creative writings. Set in a speculative present, the tetralogy envisions a new materialist cosmology wherein hierarchical relations are transformed.Exhibition: Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA (11.02-09.07.2023).
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.