iCRAG AiR, Summer 2023
AlanJames Burns will do a media takeover of Disability Arts Online social media accounts July 2023 to discuss the intersection of Climate and Disability.
Festival Makers Conference 2023, 11th May 2023
We will be presenting on ‘What is Festival Making’ as part of the Arts Council of Ireland Festival Makers Conference 11-12 May 2023
RHA / IPUT Wilton Park Studios
AlanJames Burns is one of the recipients of the RHA / IPUT Wilton Park Studios 2023. The RHA and IPUT Real Estate Artist in Residence Programme at Wilton Park Studios in Dublin 2 is a direct response to the ever-increasing studio crisis in Dublin. IPUT Real Estate, Ireland’s leading property company, continues to fully support […]
Our Place recieves Creative Ireland Bursary Award 2023 from Kildare County Council
AlanJames Burns’ collaborative socially engaged project Our Place with Sinead McCann and collaborating artists from Saint John of God Liffey Services: Aíne Walsh, David Carter, Keith Whelan, Laura Hickey, Aidan Winters, Conor Begley, David Carter, David Deane, Frances Quinn, Jonathan Smith, Niamh Fortune and Sean Winder, has graciously received the Creative Ireland Bursary Award 2023 […]
“Two new Insight Artists-in-Residence announced: AlanJames Burns and Erin Redmond” (Insight Centre)
AlanJames Burns grateful recipient of Artist-In-Residence position at Insight Centre Dublin City University a Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Data Analytics. The Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics artist-in-residence programme awards artists in the community who wish to engage in scientific research to further their own practice, fostering links between the arts and […]
Review of ABAM at Contemporary LYNX
As I look at the artist’s brain, slowly pulsating, they begin to describe it to me. “Wrinkly foreskin” they say at one point. “A Picasso”. Minutes pass, and the MRI of the brain recedes into a smaller and smaller image. At the point of implosion, where it becomes less an object and more a vaporous […]
“Insight: ‘Augmented Body, Altered Mind,’ delving into the workings of the brain(s) in real-time” (Clot Magazine)
There is an exciting interplay of technology and language in Burns’ practice. It is a specific use of language that layers on top of the work, creating space for feelings of affinity and allowing the possibility of an error; it embraces the fallibility of our minds, technology, and our relationship to it. It also points […]
“Opinion: Neurodiversity could be a powerful tool to help re-shape the world” (Journal.ie)
IN 2018, I was diagnosed with a learning disability, having severely struggled for decades with my relationship to language, words and printed text. The diagnosis came as a relief in some ways, as learning I had double deficit dyslexia allowed me to describe and articulate my experience. I found that people had a clearer understanding […]