Bill Burns
Media: Mixed Media, Video, Installation
What expectations or hopes do you have for your time at Emma Unplugged 2014?
I expect to meet other artists and get some talking done. I would like to do some drawing.
What attracted you to attending the event?
I love wild animals and Saskatchewan in the summertime.
What have you heard about collaborative events (or Emma in particular)?
I have not heard that much but what I have heard is good.
What is your current creative process? Do you expect that will change or be challenged at Emma, and if so, how?
I tend to discuss my projects with other artists until I feel I’m on the right track. I think I will continue this process.
How have collaborative events influenced you, your art and your creative process?
My collaborations have helped me think from other perspectives - ones that I don’t always agree with. This can be good.
What are you expecting from Emma Unplugged 2014?
I would like to have fruitful discussions with artists while on hike.
Who have you met through collaboration? Why do you value that connection and relationship?
I have met a lot of artists and children through my conceptual choral work with the Dogs and Boats and Airplanes choir.
What have you learned through collaboration?
I have learned it is good to listen and try out a few things and that failure is sweet.
More about Bill
Bill Burns’ work about animals and civil society has been shown and performed around the world. His projects have been produced at the Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen (2011); Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2008); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2006); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2007); the Fondacion Cristina Enea, San Sebastien, Spain (2010); the Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul,Korea (2003).His 2002 project at the Wellcom Trust in London entitled, Everything I Could Buy On eBay About Malaria, is considered a seminal work in the area of electronic collecting.
He has published nine books, including Dogs and Boats and Airplanes told in the form of Ivan the Terrible, published by Space Poetry, Copenhagen (2011); and Three Books and a CD about Plants and Animals and War, published by Verlag de Buchhandling Walther Koenig, Collogne (2011). His forthcoming book entitledHansUlrich Obrist Hear Us will be published by YYZ BOOKS, Toronto (2014).
