Kay Burns
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Kay Burns is a Canadian artist based in Calgary, Alberta working with audio, video, computer/electronics, installation and performance art; she is also a freelance curator and writer.
Burns’ work often involves research and experimentation with New Media. Some of the topics she has investigated include low-frequency sound, displacement/resettlement, memory, issues of language, of silence and of communication. Much of her recent work involves the processes of collecting, interpreting and categorizing, as well as collaborations with the EMMAX collective, and Calgary’s the Ministry of Walking. Past works has included Dislocation/Relocation: Stories of Displacement (2003), (Quad Cam Project) Out of Place: HomeCam (2001-02), mind behind academic perceives in spite of sound (2001), and Random Access Memory (2000). Performatively, she has presented lectures as the fictitious researcher/ethnographer Iris Taylor in several international settings.
Burns has exhibited internationally including recent projects for Struts, Sackville, NB, and Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland. She also teaches at the Alberta College of Art and Design and the University of Calgary.
