(2010)RED/GLASS/CHINESE CANDY CENTIPEDE/CONSTRUCTION YELLOW CORN

KROWSWORK GALLERY - DECEMBER EXHIBITION

"SHIP TO SHIP" 3:00 - stereo - variable date - Torsten Zenas Burns
Vehicular docking & Interfacing between three residency forms.
(Yellow Immersion Suit / Manbody / Pink Computer)
(Special thanks to Michael O'Malley
for creating the sculptural pink form)

Krowswork Gallery presents: As X → ∞
Debuts Friday, December 4th as part of Oakland’s Art Murmur
Opening Reception, Saturday, December 12th, 5 to 9
480 23rd Street, between Telegraph and Broadway, in midtown Oakland

Krowswork inaugurates its program with “As X → ∞” (As X Approaches Infinity),* an exhibition of videos and photographs that explores ideas of the infinite, divinity, and the leap between reason and faith as a natural expression of the mediums themselves. Because they are “reality” based and poised at the intersection of the mechanical and the conceptual, video and photography are uniquely suited to emulate and traverse these philosophical pathways. In “As X → ∞” the artists record their specific engagement with the infinite as either direct references to spiritual or ritualized experiences, abstracted allusions to cosmic forms, or playful, elliptical manifestations of the paradox of attempting the approach at all, affirming Kierkegaard’s belief that “the only thing that can save [man] is the absurd, and this he grasps by faith.”
In the screening room, we will feature a 20-minute looped program of videos ranging from 21 seconds to 4 minutes with works by Usuna & Kristie Alshaibi, Animal Charm, Nate Boyce, Torsten Zenas Burns, Volkan Ergen, Sabine Gruffat, Kaliptus, Jason Livingston, Austin Muller, and Aaron Oldenburg. Though conceived individually, the works are curated to be seen together, presenting a complete meditation on the show’s subject. Visitors to the gallery are welcome to a cup of tea or coffee while they watch. Hundred-year-old oak pews with velvet cushions serve as seating and set the tone for a unique experience.
In the project room are an installation and video by RKDB which explore divination and ritual from the eyes of a clown-shaman. Also on view in the exhibition space is the work of five photographers: Gigi Gatewood, Adam Wier, Paula Catao, Walker Dukes, and Lauren Orchowski, whose works approach infinity from the perspective of the sacred, the profane, the fanciful, the ritualized, and the cosmic, respectively.

ARTSLANT REVIEW BY: JOSHUA HAGLER

ART SHOW & SCREENING:DECEMBER 5TH 7-10PM MOVIE POSTERS FROM GHANA+NOLLYWOOD FILM "HIGHWAY TO THE GRAVE"

Hand Painted Movie Posters from Ghana
Storefront Project Room
80 Race Street, Holyoke MA
by appointment through Dec. 5, 2009
Closing reception: Saturday Dec. 5, 7:00 - 10:00 PM
Contact: Nancy Sachs 413-330-4505

Three Holyoke exhibition spaces: The Storefront Project Room at 80 Race Street; The Parsons Hall Project Space at 360 Dwight Street; and the Taber Art Gallery at Holyoke Community College are pleased to present hand painted Ghanaian movie posters from the collection of Michelle Gilbert.

In conjunction with the closing reception on Saturday Dec. 5, 7:00 - 10:00 PM, additional posters and a film will be exhibited next door at the Parsons Hall Project Space, 360 Dwight St., Holyoke. (413)-265-8321- holyokeresearch@verizon.net
SCREENING: HIGHWAY TO THE GRAVE

Duration: 01:33:08
Director: Teco Benson
Starring: Regina Askia, Jide Kosoko, Ejike Asiegbu, Tony Umez, Segun Arinze, Lanre Balogun
Language: English

Starting in the 1980s, entrepreneurial operators traveled with video recorders and TV sets to rural Ghanaian villages. Creating makeshift movie houses, often in tents or open air cinemas, they showed violent and often bloodthirsty films on televisions run with generators. Though many were films from America and Asia, most of the posters seen in this exhibition were created to promote the Nigerian made films. Hand painted on the backs of flour sacks by local Ghanaian artists they combine elements of traditional African art and modernity. The artists, in their own styles, often painted these posters before seeing the film themselves. Sometimes they referenced images from the accompanying tape jackets to create these bold and often gruesome advertisements. Many of the images are purely from the artists imagination and may not appear in the film at all. The more shocking the poster, the more likely a show would sell seats. The canvases are tattered and faded from their use to promote the movie as it traveled from village to village. Some of the flour sacking labels bleed through to the front, and some have stitching or patches of odd cloth. This intriguing twist on form and function only adds to the beauty of this dying art.

Today mass- produced paper posters are replacing the hand-painted posters in Ghana. This exhibition offers a peek into that disappearing art form as well as an opportunity to purchase the work. Each poster will be available for sale for $350.00.

Michelle Gilbert teaches anthropology and art history at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY. Since 1976 she has done fieldwork in an Akan kingdom of southern Ghana on art, religion and politics on which she has written many articles.

VIDEO SCREENING @ SCREEN

SCREEN is a forum for viewing and discussion of works-in-progress by local film/video-makers hosted by the MIT Visual Arts Program.

FRIDAY - DECEMBER 4TH

MIKE PISO

SUSAN STEINBERG

TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS

KOREANAUTICA -(work in progress) 2009

Time & Location:

MIT Visual Arts Program
Fridays, from 7:00-8:30 pm
Joan Jonas Performance Hall
265 Massachusetts Avenue
Bldg N51, Room 337 on the 3rd fl.
Cambridge, MA 02139
For info call 617-253-5229

2009 PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION

WISTARIAHURST MUSEUM

December Gallery Photograph Exhibition:

“New Holyoke, 1999-2009”

Exhibit Opening:

Thursday, December 3 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Wistariahurst welcomes local artists and photographers in an exhibition entitled “New Holyoke, 1999-2009.” Ten artists have captured the essence of Holyoke’s last decade in photographs on display in Wistariahurst's Gallery from December 3rd to January 4th. Please join us for the exhibit opening on Thursday December 3rd from 6-8 pm . Gallery admission $3. Light refreshments served.

Wistariahurst Museum, 238 Cabot Street, Holyoke,Massachusetts

"DOUBLER-RED"

SPECIAL THANKS TO: SIMGE GOKSOY

MONTAGUE PHANTOM BRAIN EXCHANGE

Is a monthly event of challenging entertainments hosted/curated by a mr. cloaca. A typical evening will include 2 - 3 performing acts, a 15 minute lecture, selections from a guest DJ & sometimes a short video or film. Last wednesday of every month, 9pm to midnight, at the Rendezvous 78 3rd St Turners Falls, MA 01376 USA

MPBE #21:
Sord
Erin Schneider
Video by Torsten Zenas Burns + Darrin Martin
(LEARNING STALLS:LESSON PLANS)
Lecture on OULIPO by Laura Deutsch
DJ Scott Seward

Wednesday, October 28th, 9pm, Five Bucks!
at the Rendezvous
78 3rd St
Turners Falls, MA 01376

MASS ART FILM SOCIETY (VIDEO SCREENING)

MASS ART FILM SOCIETY SHOWS ARE HELD IN SCREENING ROOM 1 IN EAST HALL IN THE FILM DEPARTMENT @ THE MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART, 621 HUNTINGTON AVENUE IN BOSTON. WE ARE ACCESSIBLE BY THE GREEN LINE E TRAIN-LONGWOOD/MEDICAL STOP.
WEDNESDAY - OCTOBER 14TH @ 8:00pm

SHAPESHIFTER
works that investigate revolutions of exchange both political and sexual, transfiguration, transmutation and radical distortions of psychological entropy.

a night of film, video and performance
curated by Michelle Handelman

Featuring work by:
Robert Appleton and Brandon Olson
Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin Martin
Jillian Mcdonald
Bjorn Melhus
Shannon Plumb
Reynold Reynolds and Patrick Jolley
Abbey Williams

VIDEO_DUMBO 2009

VIDEO_DUMBO 2009
CURATED BY CASPAR STRACKE + GABRIELA MONROY
LINK: VIDEOPOD
SCREENING:
"BEYOND A CARNALOVE" COLLABORATION WITH DARRIN MARTIN

HHORRRAUTICA 4:CRYPTO

PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE
HHORRRAUTICA 4: (CRYPTO)
CURATED BY TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS
HOURS + DATES: OCTOBER 10TH/11TH + 16TH/17TH (12-5PM)
OPENING: SATURDAY 7-11PM - OCTOBER 10TH 2009

CLOSING RECEPTION: SATURDAY 2-5PM - OCTOBER 24TH 2009
CONTACT: 413-265-8321 FOR MORE INFORMATION / DIRECTIONS

THE 16TH CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL - CHICAGO,IL - SEPTEMBER 2009

THE 16TH CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL 2009
SEPTEMBER 10TH-17TH
An Open Relationship with Vannevar Bush
SISKEL FILM CENTER 1 - 164 North State Street, Chicago, IL
SCREENING: 78 min. 6:00 PM Friday, September 11th 2009

A New Ecology For The Citizen of the Digital Age | Nick Briz 2009
Model Homes | Nick O’Brien 2009
Somewhere Only We Know | Jesse Mclean 2009
The Return Of The Black Tower | Jennet Thomas 2008
es/ Synch Up Elements (Version Five) | Stom Sogo 2009
Mistake of a Hedge Monster | Harvey Benschoter 2009
MEHOH (VR1a) | Jon Satrom 2009
Untitled (2 Axes) | Timothy McConville 2008
What-If? | Torsten Zenas Burns & Darrin Martin 2009

SHAPESHIFTER - VIDEO SCREENING

ISSUE PROJECT ROOM
At the Old American Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215

SHAPESHIFTER – curated by Michelle Handelman
09/05 @ 8:00pm - Admission: $10

SHAPESHIFTER
works that investigate revolutions of exchange both political and sexual, transfiguration, transmutation and radical distortions of psychological entropy.

a night of film, video and performance
curated by Michelle Handelman

Featuring work by:
Robert Appleton and Brandon Olson
Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin Martin
Jillian Mcdonald
Bjorn Melhus
Shannon Plumb
Reynold Reynolds and Patrick Jolley
Abbey Williams

Tonight is the finale of Issue Project Room’s Fall Film/Video Series

SELF-SERVICE OPEN ART SPACE - VIDEO SHOW

SELF-SERVICE OPEN ART SPACE
WHITE HEAT PROGRAMM
INSIGHT DISCOVERY
Self Service präsentiert im WHITE HEAT:
SEBASTIAN KLEMM
INSIGHT DISCOVERY
AUSSTELLUNG
03.07.2009 – 11.07.2009
DO 30.07.2009, 20.00 Uhr
Katrin Mundt präsentiert im WHITE HEAT
Selbstversuche # 2 - Lernhilfen / Screening

Mit Filmen und Videos von Noll Brinckmann,
Torsten Zenas Burns & Darrin Martin, Jana Debus,
Dennis Feser, Stuart Marshall & Neil Bartlett,
Arianne Olthaar, Jennet Thomas, Jim Trainor

SCREENING:
Learning Stalls: modular syllabi and organic exchange

KOREANAUTICA (2009 BOOK PROJECT)

KOREANAUTICA

By Torsten Zenas Burns

Book Preview

KOREANAUTICA - (342 PAGES) SOFT OR HARD COVER

PASTFORWARD @ THE LAB (SAN FRANCISCO,CA)

SCREENING NEW COLLABORATIVE VIDEO WORK WITH DARRIN MARTIN
IN THE LAB'S 25TH ANNIVERSERY SHOW CALLED "PASTFORWARDS"
SCREENING:
WHAT-IF? BEYOND A CARNALOVE -17:00-2009-HDVIDEO
Opening Reception: Friday, July 31, 6-9pm
Exhibition Runs: July 31 – August 29, 2009
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays – Saturdays, 1-6pm
The Lab Gallery - 2948 16th Street · San Francisco CA

Featuring: Ellen Babcock, Jeremiah Barber, Philip Grant Davidson, Ryan Hendon, Raymie Iadevaia, Marielle Jakobsons, JP Kelly, Daniel Konhauser, Darrin Martin & Torsten Zenas Burns, Aaron Rosenstreich, Victoria Wagner, Andrew Wingler, and Megan & Blade Wynne.

GONZOQUEST - FINAL FRIDAY'S #6 @ PAPER CITY STUDIOS VIDEO:I AM TODAY'S LESSON PLAN

Time: JUNE 26TH, 2009 from 8pm to 11pm
Location: GonzoQuest @ Paper City Studios Holyoke,MA -- 3rd Floor
Organized By: Andy Laties / Info: GonzoQuest. com or 413-230-4913; alaties@aol.com

Event Description:

Dada artist Kurt Schwitters’s classic “Sonata In Primeval Sounds,”
also called “Ursonate,” is performed by Ursonate Urchestra
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COLLABORATIVE VIDEO SCREENING:
" i am today's lesson plan " 9:00/stereo/color/2007
by Torsten Zenas Burns & Darrin Martin
I am today’s lesson plan is a unique edit of Burn’s and
Martin’s epic LearningStalls: Lesson Plans, which utilizes
video as a trans-disciplinary curriculum exploring
diverse speculative fictions and reimagined educational
practices. Psychic surgery meets physical therapy as matter
and anti-matter merge under the choreographed supervision
of other worldly beings. In the search for new mind/body
experiences, Burns, Martin and other workshop participants
enact paranormal interactions, intersexual dynamics,
pseudo-testing methods, and staged quasi-therapy sessions.

5TH WALL PROJECT - (CHARACTER)

(IMMERSION SUIT) REINTEGRATION PROGRAM

RESSURECTABLES: HYYYGIENE (BBALL)

EDUPLASM: (TRANSITIONAL) SCHOOL-BUS SERVICES

RECALLATHON DVD RELEASE (2009)

RECALLATHON DVD RELEASE (2009)

Torsten Zenas Burns & Darrin Martin

collaborative video 1998-2009

PAYPAL LINK

RECALLATHON
What If?, 15:20 minutes, 2009
The Abominable Freedom
41 minutes, 2006
Volcanica, 9:30 minutes, 2004
Learning Stalls: modular syllabi
& organic exchange
23 minutes, 2003
Currents, 19:00 minutes, 2001
Recall, 14:00 minutes, 1998

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

GONZOQUEST - FINAL FRIDAY'S #5 @ PAPER CITY STUDIOS VIDEO:UNDERNEATH THE WORKSHOP-WAYS

Time: May 29, 2009 from 8pm to 11pm
Location: GonzoQuest @ Paper City Studios Holyoke,MA -- 3rd Floor
Organized By: Andy Laties / Info: GonzoQuest. com or 413-230-4913; alaties@aol.com

Event Description:
Dada artist Kurt Schwitters’s classic “Sonata In Primeval Sounds,” also called “Ursonate,” is performed by Ursonate Urchestra, with Lead Parachute and special guest Mitch Ahern, as part of GonzoQuest’s Final Fridays Open Mike Night, on Friday, May 29th at 8pm, Paper City Studios, 80 Race Street, in Holyoke. The open mike, interspersed with “Ursonata” movements, features performance poets, artists with slideshows, and musicians: sign up at 7:30pm.

Published in 1932, Kurt Schwitters’ “Sonata In Primeval Sounds”–also called “Ursonate”–is the granddaddy of sound-art poems: a 45-minute nonsense opus that develops 26 abstract themes in sonata form. Ursonate Urchestra co-founder Andy Laties’ rousing participatory interpretations were honored in Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art’s “Chicago Artists 1945-1995″ retrospective. His partners in Ursonate Urchestra are vocalist Rebecca Migdal and percussionist Eric Blitz; they are joined tonight by experimental sound ensemble Lead Parachute, featuring John Landino on trombone, Glove on guitar and tape measure, and Denis Luzuriaga on synthesizers. Invented-instrument maker Mitch Ahern rounds out the show with his electroluxo-pipophone.

Video Screening: by Torsten Zenas Burns
"UNDERNEATH THE WORKSHOP-WAYS" 10:00/stereo/2008
(BROOKLYN / VIRGINIA LIFECOACH DEGREE PROGRAM): Renewable energy coupling / Friendly fluids Gestation camping / Medical delivery projectiles…..

COTE COURT MEDIA ART FESTIVAL / FRANCE

2009 COTE COURT MEDIA ART FESTIVAL / PANTIN/FRANCE
Focus Shana Moulton - 2009
Shana Moulton crée à travers ses vidéos et performances des récits troublants et hilarants. En combinant humour décalé et sensibilité pop, avec un dispositif très simple, elle joue un personnage, Cynthia, dont les interactions avec le monde de tous les jours sont à la fois ordinaires et totalement surréalistes.On évolue dans un univers kitsh et mystique pour une expérience dont on ne sort pas indemne ! à ne manquer sous aucun prétexte...

Carte Blanche : Shana Moulton
The Visit and the Play / Stephanie Barber - 8 min
Troglodyte / Desiree Holman - 7 min
Trypps #6 (Malobi) / Ben Russel - 12 min
Tina's Turn / Ola Vasiljeva - 4 min
Le Cruel et le curieux vie du la Salmonellapod /
Ethan Kramer + Alex Bag - 12 min
I am Today's Lesson Plan /
Darrin Martin + Torsten Zenas Burns - 10 min 30
Double Dummy / Thomas Jennet - 7 min
Light is Waiting / Michael Robinson - 11 min

Focus : Shana Moulton
Feeling Free with 3D Magic Eye Poster Remix /
Shana Moulton - 8 min 30
Whispering Pines 7 / Shana Moulton - 6 min
Whispering Pines 8 / Shana Moulton - 7 min 30
Whispering Pines 4 / Shana Moulton - 11 min
Sand Saga / Shana Moulton - 10 min 30
Whispering Pines 6 / Shana Moulton - 6 min
Whispering Pines 5 / Shana Moulton - 6 min 30
Whispering Pines 3 / Shana Moulton - 7 min 30

Performance : Shana Moulton
Une performance haute en couleurs dans la lignée de son travail vidéo.

INSIDE OUT @ ATA

(ATA) ARTISTS TELEVISION ACCESS
992 Valencia Street / San Francisco, CA
Friday, June 12, 2009. 8PM $6 (About 70 minutes - TRT)

Inside Out: Solo and Collaborative Videos of Darrin Martin
Darrin Martin presents an evening of solo video works and collaborations with Torsten Zenas Burns, that ends a spring tour of his work that traveled throughout the country. The program includes highlights from his trilogy examining subjects of hearing loss and tinnitus, a constant ringing in oneís head. Videos from his ongoing collaboration with Torsten Zenas Burns exploring re-imagined educational programs that tap into subjects as diverse as psychology, polygamy and the occult will also be in the mix.

Volcanica, 2004, 9:30, collaboration with Torsten Zenas Burns
Monograph in Stereo, 2004/5, 17:20
Free to Be You and Me, 2006, 4:20
I am Todayís Lesson Plan, 2004, 10:30
collaboration with Torsten Zenas Burns
Other Turbans, 2007, 12:40
What If?, 2009, 15:30 collaboration with Torsten Zenas Burns

RESIDENCY FICTION SERIES ONE

SPECIAL THANKS TO:DENISE IRIS

RESSURECTABLES /FRIDASEARCH/TROPHY CITY

MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION 2009-GATZKE/BURNS/FRIDA
THANKS TO PAPER CITY STUDIOS/(PULP SCIENCE FICTION SHOW)

PULP SCIENCE FICTION SHOW & SPECULATION(ELATION)2

SPECULATION(ELATION)2

3 COLLABORATIVE VIDEO SCREENING EVENTS

May 1st, Swampland
846 Texas Avenue / New Orleans,Louisiana / 8PM / $5

May 6th, 7pm Austin Studios Screening Room
Avant Cinema,2.7
Austin Film Society
1901 E. 51st St. / Austin, TX

May 10th, 8pm, $5 entry
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd.)Los Angeles,CA

"INSIDE OUT" 2009 VIDEO TOUR
Darrin Martin will present an evening of solo video works and collaborations with Torsten Zenas Burns which investigate the intersection between speculative fiction and autobiography. The curation includes highlights from his trilogy of experimental shorts examines interiority and exteriority through subjects of hearing loss and tinnitus, a constant ringing in one’s head. Videos from his ongoing collaboration with Torsten Zenas Burns exploring re-imagined educational programs that tap into subjects as diverse as psychology, polygamy and the occult will also be in the mix.

1,000 PLACES TO DEFINE "GREAT"

1,000 PLACES TO DEFINE "GREAT"
2009 BOSTON GLOBE ARTICLE BY TOM HAINES
ARTICLE MENTIONINGPARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE
HOLYOKE,MASSACHUSETTS
VIDEO LINK

THE EUROPEAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

THE EUROPEAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL
OSNABRUCK,GERMANY - APRIL 22nd-26th 2009

Saturday April 25th
A Stroke of Genius (short video & film program)
Magical science and the myth of technology encounter one another here openly: Darwin sends his regards!

Le nouveau omiza, … / Ute Hörner / D / 5:00
What If? / WP / Torsten Zenas Burns & Darrin Martin / USA / 11:00
Binnenverblijven / Arianne Olthaar / NL / 4:00
Für Meiko / F.K. Flumen / D / 4:00
Prometheus/Odysseus / C. Onitsch / D / 6:00
Secret machine / WP / Reynold Reynolds / 10:00
Syscapes # Interlude / E. Schockmel / UK / 22:00