Untitled (Screen Tests)

A.K. Burns

Due to the process-based nature of the Session program, this project will undergo constant modifications; the features of this page provide accruing information on the project’s developments.

Date:
February 13–18, 2025

Please Note:
Closed Set - Filming is not open to the public.

Former Session artist, A. K. Burns will be undertaking several months of research and collaboration with a screenwriter, culminating with the staging at Recess of public screen tests that will be used to develop a new video work that mines the periphery of the horror-film genre.

About the artist

A.K. Burns

Artist

A.K. Burns is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in New York, born on the coast of Northern California in 1975. Using video, installation, sculpture, drawing, and collaboration, Burns explores systems of value and the body as a contentious domain wherein socio-political issues are negotiated. A.K. is a founding member of the artists activist group W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy). In collaboration with A.L. Steiner, Community Action Center, a feature length social sexual video portrait was released this fall simultaneously at Taxter & Spengemann, NY and Horton Gallery, Berlin. A.K. also launched the inaugural issue of RANDY, a feminist queer arts magazine, in collaboration with Sophie Mörner at Capricious Publishing. She received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.