artworks
here follow - in alphabetical order – examples from sean burns main exhibitions of recent years. (earlier works are excluded from this list for simplicity). low resolution examples ov the artworks are included. all suites ov work are still available for exhibition. see home page for contact details if yu wish to request an exhibition or individual images.
dream horizon - dada south (disability arts, south east england). 2004
an electronic book of hours can be found at www.dada-south.org.uk/
guattari / deleusze (both part of the anti-psychiatry movement) in on the line talk ov two essential states ov existence: the first is ov being & is essentially conservative, while the second state, ov becoming, is radical. dream horizon traces this line ov becoming in prose poems and abstract graphics.
handsaw whose blade is feather – ovada, oxford. 2005
a powerful and provocative response to the universal declaration of human rights via live-literature, performance, improvised musics and visual installation. (with laura eades – performer, and gareth mitchell – musician)
point/s ov departure. humber mouth festival, hull, 2006.
digital residency creating body of work in sound/text/visuals.
andrew marvell grew up in hull, later representing the constituency as m.p. at a time of european war, he travelled widely and frequently satirised the enemy. point/s ov departure takes the reverse journey and gives voice to the urgent messages ov those excluded from the wealth of horizons dreaming. all these starting points offer both framework and freedom in which sean burn has generated a complex landscape - part dream, part real, revealing the hopeful undercurrents and secrets we ignore or are excluded from every day at our peril. raise yr gaze!
re:word. for fold gallery, kirkby stephen as part of fred: annual art invasion of cumbria. (www.fredsblog.co.uk/artists/7.html) 2005
re : word is a sequence ov poster-poems for the annual art invasion of cumbria. it is displayed throughout the lake district as a temporary public art trail and radically rewords wordsworth, bringing a rawer edge and new text for a contemporary audience, interrogating ‘the canon’ ov english literature.
scratch republic / all cut up. buddle arts centre, wallsend for the mimosa (disability arts) festival from arcadea. 2006
scratch republic and all cut up are re-examinings ov the ‘noise’ we are increasingly bombarded by. culture-jamming techniques as well as a cut & paste / resampling aesthetic remix /mash-up all this into something new; scratched, grainy, credible. i belong to the art brut / outlaw territory of art creating work that is marginal, essentially as an emotional response to political / social acts around us.
scratch republic is predominantly visual cut-ups
while all cut up is text-based.
the boundary above and the world below for barriers.
an installation (text-art prints and soundwork), the results ov a residency for dash (disability arts shropshire), summer 2007. (the soundwork can be found on this websites soundwork page)
those ov yu who saw an angel not realizin it cd jes be a hyperactive firin ov the visual cortex. queens hall arts, hexham. 2004.
(some work previously shown orleans house gallery, richmond, and artsway, new forest, both 2003). a text, sound and visual sequence exploring the winged state.
válkaovocekristusvodadítě. (warfruitchristwaterchild). cesta, tabor (czech republic). 2005.
bi-lingual installation mapping tabor in sound, text and art - the result of a residency
voodoodoll. lauderdale house, highgate, london, 2003. phoenix picturehouse, oxford, 2004. cesta festival, tabor (czech republic) 2004.
voodoodoll is a suite ov multilayered digital images combined with texts. the visuals combine charcoal drawings with photography and found, scanned items. these then had texts degraded, smeared, distorted and wound around them. (fully readable texts are also found in the exhibition.) viewers/readers are invited to witness this as a book laid out around the gallery walls which explore the lover and the loss.
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