LAURA BURNS
CV
ONGOING
Artist, facilitator and writer.
Visiting tutor and workshop facilitator (upcoming Goldsmiths University, Falmouth University)
Member of artist collectives Decolonising Botany, LARK (Living Archive of Re-membered Knowledges), and Hungry Mothers.
TALKS, EVENTS, CONFERENCES
In the Borderlands Podcast, (interviewee) 2023.
Story Paths Podcast, (interviewee) 2023.
Decolonising Healing Practices, performance lecture, San Mei Gallery, London, 2022.
Borderland Practices, Artist Talk for the Heresy Project, Online, 2022.
Decolonising Botany, Artist Talk and launch of collective at Liverpool Bienniale, 2021.
Autonomous Flesh, Autonomous Stone Artist Talk with Liz Rosenfeld, Siobhan Davies Studio London, 2019.
Under the Tongue, Vocal Sounding Workshop for Welt ohne Außen, Martin Gropius Bau, 2018.
Sounding the Stones; Intuition and the Sacred, Performance lecture for Liverpool Hope University, 2017.
Decolonial Actions Artist lecture, Live Art Development Agency, 2016.
Verdant Intersections: Landscape, Ecology, Poetry, Performance, Performance lecture Birkbeck University, 2016.
Crossing Borders, Artist talk with choreographer Rosemary Lee. Siobhan Davies Studio, 2015.
Voicing Matters: Towards an Ecology of voice, place, becoming, Performance Lecture, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2015.
Towards an Ecology of Language, Performance Lecture, Royal Holloway University, 2013.
PUBLICATIONS
‘Practices of Reciprocity and Witnessing in More-than-human Collectivities’ in Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices Special Issue 'Somatics and Eco-Consciousness', 2021.
“River-Stone-Ceremony: Towards a Material Poet(h)ics of human-nonhuman Witnessing” PhD thesis, Goldsmiths Research Online, March 2020.
‘A Site for Unfixing’ interview with Lucy Suggate, for Material II Siobhan Davies Dance, 2019.
'The Performer in Live Art' in The Live Art Almanac; Volume 4. Ed. Keidan, L. Wright, A. Curtis, H. (published for Exeunt 2012, re-printed for LADA 2016)
‘The English Channel’ review of Liz Aggiss for Exeunt Magazine, 2014.
‘Tintern Abbey’ and ‘River Source’ The Interpreter’s House, 2014.
‘Franko B: This is Love’ at Fierce Festival, for This is Tomorrow, 2013.
‘The Ancestors Who Never Left’ PEN Atlas, 2013.
‘Speaking Bodies, Plural Voices’ SARMA Laboratory for discursive practices and expanded publication, 2013.
'Decolonising the Feminine; Idle No More’ Earthlines Magazine, 2013.
‘Wolf Island’ Under the Radar, 2013.
‘Speaking Bodies, Storied Land’; Earthlines Magazine, (shortlisted for Earthlines Essay Prize), 2013.
‘Survival Tactics’ review of Liz Aggiss at Arnolfini, for Exeunt Magazine, 2012.
‘Why Matter Matters; looking at material agency in the poetics of Elisabeth Bletsoe’. Tears in the Fence, 2012.
‘Re-imagining the Space Between’ Dispatches From The Invisible Revolution; ‘New Public Thinking 1: Reflections on 2011’, 2012.
UPCOMING
Creative Collaboration with Land: North, South, East, West, with Land Art Collective.
▲, published in Mattering Spiritualities, Ed. S. Battista and D. Mason, Routledge, forthcoming 2024.
QUALIFICATIONS
PhD practice-as-research in Fine Art, “River-Stone-Ceremony; Towards a Material Poet(h)ics of human - non-human witnessing”, Goldsmiths University of London, 2020.
MA Creative Writing, Bath Spa University. Distinction, 2012.
MA English Literature and History of Art, Edinburgh University. First Class, 2010.
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“Your Resonant Self; Integrating the shadow” with Sarah Peyton, 2023.
Ongoing nature-based rites of passage guide training with Animas Valley Institute, and the School of Lost Borders, USA. 2022- present.
Permaculture Design Certificate, with Starhawk, 2023.
Systemic Constellations Facilitator with Centre for Systemic Constellations, 2020.
KRI Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training, 2017.
AWARDS
Arts Council England Grant for the Arts, Wishbone, 2016.
DanceWEB Scholar, Impulstanz Festival of Dance, Vienna, 2016.
Arts and Humanities Research Council scholarship for doctoral research, 2014 – 2020.
SELECTED WORKS / COLLABORATIONS
Heron, (sculpture and film) part of Hidden Lineages Exhibition at Delapre Abbey, Northampton, April 2023.
Decolonising Botany at Documenta 15, Kassel, 2022.
Imaginal Anatomy Performance Artwork commissioned by MakeUp Productions, Berlin, 2022.
Groundwerk with Dani Bershan at Maerz Music Festival, Berlin, 2021.
Weaving Threads, performance research with Neele Rusduck at Ponderosa Dance, 2021.
Performer; Performances of Silvia Palacios Whitman, KunstFest Spiele, Hannover, 2019.
Performer; Space Shifters Exhibition by Josiah McElheny at Hayward Gallery, London, 2018.
Performer; Cat's Cradle for Silvia Palacios Whitman Retrospective, Tate Modern, London, 2018.
Performer; Occasions, Isabel Lewis Ten Days, Six Nights at Tate Modern, London, 2017.
Garden as Studio with Shelley Etkin (ongoing LARK collaboration), Ponderosa Berlin, 2017.
Gaorthadh, with Siobán Ní Dhiunnín; Firkin Crane Dance, Ireland, 2015.
Orgave, with Jan Lee Ming; Penned in the Margins, London, 2015.
SELECTED SOLO / DIRECTED PERFORMANCES
Unearthings, (ongoing solo) Performing Arts Forum, Goldsmiths University London, 2019.
▲, Kule Theatre, Berlin, 2018.
Hag Stone, Future Ritual II at vdf, London, 2018.
Cove, (director and performer), The Yard Theatre, London, 2017.
Almanac, National Platform Artist, SPILL Festival of Performance, Ipswich, 2016.
Wishbone, (director and performer), The Yard Theatre, London, 2016.
Word Undance, ArtsAdmin, London, 2016.
From Skip to Sky, Spontaneous Combustion Festival, London, 2015.
Bird Throat, Body Weather Project, Scotland, 2015.
Stone Throat, Live Art Development Agency and Lancaster Institute of the Arts, 2015.