# AlanJames Burns


## Posts

- ['Augmented Body, Altered Mind' at Light Art Museum, Budapest, 6 August 2024 - 29 June 2025 2025](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/augmented-body-altered-mind-at-light-art-museum-budapest-6-august-2024-29-june-2025-2025/): ‘Phantom Vision’ delves into the hidden layers of human perception, questioning our assumptions about reality.
- ['I Want to Ask a Question', a Solo Show by David Parnell, Now Open, May 2024](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/i-want-to-ask-a-question-a-solo-show-by-david-parnell-now-open-may-2024/): ‘I Want To Ask A Question’ by David Parnell is now open at Roscommon Arts Centre, presented in collaboration with Disrupt Disability Arts Festival. 
- ["I Want To Ask A Question' by David Parnell at Roscommon Arts Centrer,  11 April - 23 May 2025](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/i-want-to-ask-a-question-by-david-parnell-at-roscommon-arts-centrer-11-april-23-may-2025/): Disrupt Disability Arts Festival and Roscommon Arts Centre, is delighted to present ‘I Want To Ask A Question’, a solo exhibition by David Parnell.
- [Divergently Together](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/divergently-together/): TBGAS June
- [LP: Foram Science Week Event](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/lp-foram-science-week-event/): Foram – As part of National Science Week and European Geoscience Day 2024 November 11 to 19, Open Daily 11:00 to 5:00pm 14 Nov, European Geoscience Day, free event day. Venue: National Maritime Museum of Ireland, Dún Laoghaire. Through a public talk and installation, ‘Foram’ presents research from Burns’s artistic residency on board the Celtic Explorer research cruise CE23011. This expedition, led by chief scientist and collaborator Dr. Audrey Morley from the University of Galway and iCRAG, ventured to one of the most remote regions on Earth in July 2023. Here, amidst the icy expanses of the Arctic Ocean and […]
- [AlanJames Burns Announced for Basic Talks, October 2024](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/alanjames-burns-announced-for-basic-talks-october-2024/): AlanJames Burns will do a media takeover of Disability Arts Online social media accounts July 2023 to discuss the intersection of Climate and Disability.
- [Augmented Body, Altered Mind at Áras Éanna, Inis Oirr, 27-28 September, 2024](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/augmented-body-altered-mind-at-aras-eanna-inis-oirr-27-28-september-2024/): As part of the Augmented Body Altered Mind tour, the exhibition will travel to Áras Éanna, Inis Oirr
- [Foram](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/foram/): Foram 10 – 17 November 2024 National Maritime Museum of Ireland We all inhabit a vast, interconnected ecosystem, where every being – no matter how big or small – plays a vital role in fostering a harmonious world. Among these, Planktonic Foraminifera, or Forams, are tiny microscopic organisms with an outsized importance. These tiny beings hold essential clues about the Earth’s ancient climate patterns, helping us to better understand the effects of our rapidly changing climate. ‘Foram’ explores how all things, even what can appear as the most isolated and marginalised elements of our world, play a crucial role in […]
- [Our Place Kerry Exhibition, Kerry County Museum, 20 Sept - 20 Oct 2024](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/our-place-dublin-exhibition-kerry-county-museum-20-sept-20-oct-2024/): Our Place is a multi-sensory installation that explores themes of happiness, human rights, and belonging. The installation features an immersive sound artwork played through 10 speakers, a vibrant neon artwork, and tactile light artworks. The exhibition features distinct sensory areas with both group and individual seating. Exhibition accessibility additionally includes Lámh sign language video, braille, audio and captioned descriptions.
- [LP: Our Place at the Kerry County Museum](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/lp-our-place-at-the-kerry-county-museum/): Our Place – Kerry Exhibition Kerry County Museum is delighted to present ‘Our Place’ The Kerry County Museum presents ‘Our Place’. Opens Culture Night, Friday 20 Sept 2024 Exhibition runs from Saturday 21 Sept until October 20 A national art exhibition showcasing creativity, inclusion, and diverse voices from Dublin and Kerry. ‘Our Place’ champions the human rights of people living with intellectual disabilities by creating access to cultural expression and cultural spaces. More info
- [Our Place Dublin Exhibition, RHA Gallery, 6-22 Sept, 2024](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/our-place-dublin-exhibition-rha-gallery-6-22-sept-2024/): Our Place is a multi-sensory installation that explores themes of happiness, human rights, and belonging. The installation features an immersive sound artwork played through 10 speakers, a vibrant neon artwork, and tactile light artworks. The exhibition features distinct sensory areas with both group and individual seating. Exhibition accessibility additionally includes Lámh sign language video, braille, audio and captioned descriptions.
- [LP: Our Place at the RHA](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/lp-our-place-at-the-rha/): Our Place – Dublin Exhibition The RHA Gallery Dublin is delighted to present ‘Our Place’ Exhibition runs from Friday 6 Sept, to Sunday 22 Sept   A national art exhibition showcasing creativity, inclusion, and diverse voices from Dublin and Kerry. ‘Our Place’ champions the human rights of people living with intellectual disabilities by creating access to cultural expression and cultural spaces. More info
- [Augmented Body, Altered Mind Opens in Budapest, August 2024](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/augmented-body-altered-mind-opens-in-budapest-august-2024/): This month Augmented Body Altered Mind opens as part of ‘Phantom Vision’ at LAM – Light Art Museum, Budapest, until June 2025. This exhibition delves into the hidden layers of human perception, questioning our assumptions about reality.
- [Augmented Body, Altered Mind Townhall Arts Centre Cavan, 4-8 June, 2024](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/augmented-body-altered-mind-cavan-townhall-4-8-june-2024/): As part of the Augmented Body Altered Mind tour, the exhibition will travel to Townhall Arts Centre Cavan.  This exhibition will ignite the launch of the artist's and DCU’s latest project, Divergently Together, which leverages STEM technologies to empower disabled and neurodivergent communities in climate action.
- [National Launch of 'Divergently Together', May 2024](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/national-launch-of-divergently-together-may-2024/): Led by AlanJames Burns in partnership with the Insight Centre at DCU, Divergently Together harnesses STEM technologies to empower disabled and neurodivergent communities in climate action. 
- [Distinct Exhibition, 8 March-20 April 2024](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/distinct-exhibition-march-april-2024/):  Project Art Centre is thrilled to present Distinct, an exhibition curated by AlanJames Burns which explores the climate crisis through the perspective of disability. 
- [The inaugural Disrupt Disability Arts Festival Gets Underway, March 2024](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/the-inaugural-disrupt-disability-arts-festival-kicks-off-at-project-arts-centre-march-2024/): AlanJames Burns will do a media takeover of Disability Arts Online social media accounts July 2023 to discuss the intersection of Climate and Disability.
- [Disability Arts Online Content Takeover, February 2024](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/disability-arts-online-media-takeover/): AlanJames Burns will do a media takeover of Disability Arts Online social media accounts July 2023 to discuss the intersection of Climate and Disability.
- [Distinct](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/distinct-exhibition/): Distinct 8 March – 20 April 2024 Project Arts Centre Cecilia Bullo, Yvonne Condon, Richard Forrest, Michelle Hall, Vera Klute, Ruth Le Gear, Jane McCormack, David Parnell, Aisling Reina, Katherine Sankey, Suzanne Walsh. Project Art Centre is thrilled to present ‘Distinct’, an exhibition curated by AlanJames Burns that explores the climate crisis through the perspective of disability. Platforming eleven artists whose practices represent the diverse, intersectional voices of the disability arts community, the exhibition navigates how lived experiences of disability can help inform more sustainable ways of living. Exhibition preview and performance by Suzanne Walsh:  7 March 2024, 6.00pm – […]
- [LP: Augmented Body Tour](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/lp-augmented-body-tour/): Augmented Body, Altered Mind 27 – 28 September As part of the ‘Augmented Body Altered Mind’ tour, the exhibition will travel to Áras Éanna, Inis Oirr More info
- [Disrupt Disability Festival 2024](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/disrupt-disability-festival-7-11-march-2024/): Disrupt Disability Arts Festival is a vibrant celebration of disability art, curated by and for the disability community.   Festival launches, 7 March.  Performance Programme, 7-11 March.  Visual Arts Exhibition and Online Programme, 8 March – 20 April
- [Disrupt Disability Arts Festival](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/disrupt/): Disrupt Disability Arts Festival Disrupt Disability Arts Festival is a vibrant celebration of disability art, curated by and for the disability community. The festival had its inaugural year in 2024, followed by a powerful second edition in 2025, and continues to grow as a platform for disability-led artistic expression. The festival includes theatre, dance, literature-based performance and visual arts, all delivered through a range of accessible formats in relaxed spaces. This unique festival is designed to deepen the understanding of and appreciation for the richness of experiences and perspectives that define disability in Ireland. Disrupt Disability Arts Festival actively dismantles […]
- [Augmented Body, Altered Mind Garter Lane, 14 & 15 Feb, 2024](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/augmented-body-altered-mind-garter-lane-14-15-feb-2024/): As part of the Augmented Body Altered Mind tour, the exhibition will travel to Garter Lane.  Public Talk: Wed 14 Feb, 6.30pm Private Groups: Thurs 15 Feb, 11 – 2pm Public Access: Thurs 15 Feb, 3:30 – 5pm
- [Neural Landscapes, 9 Nov, 2023](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/neural-landscapes/): Join Aoibheann Greenan and AlanJames Burns for a conversation that will span the convergence of art and neurotechnology, as it relates to each of their artistic practices and a broader discussion of the work in The Ninth Muse exhibition. More info
- [Assemble, Project Arts Centre, 6 & 7 Nov, 2023](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/assemble/): AlanJames Burns is delighted to be speaking at Assemble at the Project Arts Centre. 
- [Augmented Body Altered Mind Westival, 26-30 Oct, 2023](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/augumented-westival/): As part of Westival arts Festival, Augmented Body Altered Mind opens at Custom House Studios + Gallery 26 Oct - 30 Oct; Launch: Thursday 26 Oct, 6pm
- [The Waking Walls](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/wakingnew/): A wholly distinct experience that uniquely draws upon the Irish traditions of lamenting and caoineadh/ keening to express emotions of ecological and climate grief felt due to lost heritage and ecology associated with climate change.
- [The Waking Walls -OLD](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/waking/): A wholly distinct experience that uniquely draws upon the Irish traditions of lamenting and caoineadh/ keening to express emotions of ecological and climate grief felt due to lost heritage and ecology associated with climate change.
- [Business to Arts Awards: Accenture Digital Innovation in Art Bursary](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/business-to-arts-awards-accenture-digital-innovation-in-art-bursary/): AlanJames Burn is honored to be one of the winners, receiving the €10,000 Accenture Digital Innovation in Art bursary, the for their work Divergent Together.
- [RTÉ Lyric FM, Culture File: The Waking Walls](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/culture-file-the-waking-walls/): AlanJames Burns will do a media takeover of Disability Arts Online social media accounts July 2023 to discuss the intersection of Climate and Disability.
- [RTÉ Tús Áite: Caoineadh Aeráide/The Waking Walls](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/rte-tus-aite-caoineadh-aeraide-the-waking-walls/): AlanJames Burns will do a media takeover of Disability Arts Online social media accounts July 2023 to discuss the intersection of Climate and Disability.
- [Clore Fellows 2023/24 Announced](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/clore-fellows-2023-24-announced/): AlanJames Burns will do a media takeover of Disability Arts Online social media accounts July 2023 to discuss the intersection of Climate and Disability.
- [Caoineadh Dúlra](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/caoineadh/): Caoineadh Dúlra is a groundbreaking series of events, in conjunction with artist AlanJames Burns’s ambitious theatrical project The Waking Walls (8th & 9th September 2023). 
- [iCRAG AiR, Summer 2023](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/icrag-air-2024/): AlanJames Burns will do a media takeover of Disability Arts Online social media accounts July 2023 to discuss the intersection of Climate and Disability.
- [Art  |  Disability  |  Climate Change](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/art-disability-climate-change/): An afternoon webinar exploring disability narratives in a changing climate through the work of Irish artists. 
- [LP: Landing Page Image (Launch LP3)](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/lp-landing-page-image-launch-lp3/)
- [LP: Landing Page Image (Launch LP2)](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/lp-landing-page-image-launch-lp2/)
- [LP: Landing Page Image (Launch LP1)](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/lp-landing-page-image-launch-lp1/)
- [Festival Makers Conference 2023, 11th May 2023](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/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
- [Our Place, Riverbank Arts Centre, July 14th – July 28th 2023](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/our-place-riverbank-arts-centre-july-14th-july-28th-2023/): Our Place is a new socially engaged exhibition explores themes of happiness, human rights, and a sense of belonging in cultural spaces.
- [RHA / IPUT Wilton Park Studios](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/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 a facility with three studios, in collaboration with the RHA. External Link
- [Our Place recieves Creative Ireland Bursary Award 2023 from Kildare County Council](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/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 from Kildare County Council. Our Place Read More
- [Augmented Body, Altered Mind](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/augmented/): TBGAS June
- [Disability Arts Online - Content Take Over](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/disability-arts-online-content-take-over/): Disability Arts Online – Content Takeover For the month of February 2024, AlanJames Burns took over the creative reins of the Disability Arts Online (DAO) magazine and their digital content with a series of pieces exploring the intersections of disability, climate change and the arts. The Content Takeover spanned DAO’s magazine and social media platforms. Through a set of interviews with artists working in the space of art, climate and disability, Alan, with the help of the team at DAO, created content including: Podcast with Prof Julia Watts Belser Climate Emergency Micro interviews with Khairani Barokka, Suzie Cross, Alice Hu […]
- [Our Place](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/ourplace/): Our Place playfully explores themes of happiness, human rights, and a sense of belonging by transforming the McKenna Gallery at Riverbank Arts Centre into a friendly multi-sensory environment through an electric combination of sound art, storytelling, tactile lighting and comfy seating for everyone to enjoy.
- [Sound On!](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/sound-on/): Sound On!   Sound On! is a creative sound artwork exploring experiences of human rights and happiness for and by people with a learning disability. The sound artwork consists of 3 sound tracks entitled; I Have the Right (2’ 47’’)Sounds of our Lives (3’ 51’’)Listen In (8’ 55’’) The Sound On! project is a collaboration between artists Dr Sinéad McCann, AlanJames Burns and Saint John of God Liffey Services Ireland who provide a range of support to adults with learning disabilities. The artwork was developed over a six-month period during the Covid 19 lockdown through weekly on-line creative workshops, facilitated and led by […]
- ["Two new Insight Artists-in-Residence announced: AlanJames Burns and Erin Redmond" (Insight Centre)](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/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 science communities to promote interdisciplinary research. The purpose of the residencies is to support artists, curators or producers to develop and research new, ambitious work intended for public presentation. The residencies will allow the artists impactful access to current research at Insight SFI Research Centre […]
- [Review of ABAM at Contemporary LYNX](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/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 cloud, the artist’s whispery voiceover characterises the moment of sublimation as “a rock into the wind / big bang.” This description is imaginatively precise but removed from its context it becomes less a description than a kind of parable… External Link
- ["Insight: ‘Augmented Body, Altered Mind,’ delving into the workings of the brain(s) in real-time" (Clot Magazine)](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/insight-augmented-body-altered-mind-delving-into-the-workings-of-the-brains-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 out a sense of resistance towards the normative and brings up the relationships between technology, language and bodies that are at the periphery of the capitalist, ableist system – queer bodies, disabled bodies, and migrant bodies… Read More
- [This Must Be The Place: AlanJames Burns (RHA Talk)](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/this-must-be-the-place-alanjames-burns-rha-talk/): Catch a talk by AlanJames Burns on their site specific work as part of the RHA This Must Be The Place Talk series on 27 Oct 2022 External Link
- [Studio](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/studio-content/): AlanJames Burns AlanJames Burns produces collaborative, interactive, socially engaged and site-specific exhibitions. The focal points of their artistic and curatorial practice are disability, climate change and the human mind. Full Biography PDF Enquires General: studio@alanjamesburns.com 
- [SITE CONTENT: Upcoming Events (Do Not Edit)](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/site-content-upcoming-events/): Upcoming Public Events
- [Silicone Synapse](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/synapse/): Silicon Synapse ‘Silicon Synapse’ is an immersive Virtual Reality and psycho-acoustic experience that will take you on a simulated journey into the personified mind of ‘Technology’. Listening to the inner dialogue of ‘Technology’s’ mind as it replays both sides of a lovers’ quarrel. ‘Technology’ and its life partner ‘Nature’ argue about the sustainability of their relationship and their future as a couple. ‘Silicon Synapse’ explores evolution, genetic engineering and transhumanism. Each viewer is engulfed by a conscious dream-like realm, as they travel through intense listening and visual experiences.  Silicon Synapse ‘Silicon Synapse’ is an immersive Virtual Reality and psycho-acoustic experience […]
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/privacy-policy/): Privacy Statement The studio of AlanJames Burns is committed to keeping your information private. We understand that your privacy and the security of your information are very important to you. The purpose of this Website Privacy Statement is to outline how we deal with the privacy of the users of this website. Please read the terms of this Privacy Statement carefully since by visiting this website, you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of this Privacy Statement. Collection and Use of Information Data The studio of AlanJames Burns collects only non-personal data on this website. Non-Personal Data Non-personal […]
- [Entirely hollow aside from the dark](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/hollow/): Entirely hollow aside from the dark is an immersive 19-32 channel psychoacoustic sound event taking place inside ancient natural auditoriums carved into the underbelly of earth’s crust. Using the cave as a physical metaphor for the mind, the cavern personifies the consciousness of Earth as she struggles with her worsening mental health brought on by humanity’s distressing of her body. In the darkness, an audible inner dialogue echoing Mother Earth’s thoughts and regrets unfolds and a symphony of choreographed sounds shifts around the cave, mirroring processes of the human mind. Entirely hollow aside from the dark aims to simultaneously break […]
- ["Opinion: Neurodiversity could be a powerful tool to help re-shape the world" (Journal.ie)​](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/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 of how I see the world when I was able to put a name on my difficulties. I’m a visual artist, and so you’d imagine that I spend most of my time creating art. But in fact I spend about 90% of my time on […]

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- [News](https://www.alanjamesburns.com/news/): Augmented Body, Altered Mind at Áras Éanna, Inis Oirr, September 27th- 28th, 2024 Augmented Body, Altered Mind Critically acclaimed artist Alan James Burns with DCU, Galway Arts Office and Creative Ireland presents an exciting interactive art experience on Inis Oírr this September. ‘Augmented Body, Altered Mind’, will mark the national launch of Divergently Together. This September artist Alan James Burns will be exhibiting immersive artwork ‘Augmented Body Altered Mind’ which will close the summer programme presented by Áras Éanna on Inis Oirr. Co-created by the public, this immersive artwork explores the intersections of the climate crisis, individual agency, and variations […]
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