i play with words in a variety of ways :   sometimes conventionally and sometimes un- before owning our labour we owned our voice - yet this is too often denied, language our first battlefield.  my work across visual poetry / theatre / spoken word / sound(mappings) / performance / installation and film challenges ownership of language/s

sean burn is a writer, performer and outsider artist with a growing international reputation.  actively involved nationally in disability arts, he was shortlisted for a dadafest disability arts award 2009 and earlier this year completed a major residency at the new gallery walsall in association with dash (disability arts shropshire) where he worked to ‘reclaim the languages of lunacy’.  his plays are performed by breaking binary; ctc; first draft; free-thinking festival (radio three); gobscure; half moon; maverick; pegasus; paines plough; queens hall arts; under construction; weaver-hughes ensemble in association with oval theatre; zeitgeist.  his thirty poetry films have received many screenings worldwide, as well as at tate modern and national film theatre studios, london. exhibitions / installations / performances have been presented and toured with arcadea; cesta, czech republic; dada-south; dash; the door (birmingham rep); fotofeis and grampian hospital arts trust; fold and fred; gulbenkian canterbury and lit up; humber mouth festival; interarte, germany; lancaster university and lancaster litfest; new word order; odins glow; ovada; platform 00000008; shout festival; stanley picker gallery and the live art development agency.  he has had three spoken word cd’s released, most recently speaksong with gareth mitchell, musician. skrev press (www.skrevpress.com) published a third full-length collection of his writing – wings are giving out – (isbn 978-1-904646-56-3) in 2009.

two new books are due in 2012 - molotovs happy hour (a novella from skrev press) and dante in the laundrette (a book of poetry from smokestack).

sean’s work can be found at http://vimeo.com/user2623542 (film), http://audioboo.fm/seanburn (soundworks / shorter spoken word),  http://soundcloud.com/burnsean (soundscapes)  and www.flickr.com/photos/burnsean (photos)

contact burn.sean@googlemail.com

or follow his blog at  http://gobscure.wordpress.com