Eat Me Alive
An interspecies fairy tale – We see a collection of speculative humanoids, insects, amphibians, and sea creatures collaboratively engage in ecological fictions, surgical workshops, and improvisational communication stories in the hopes of re-wilding the planet one interaction at a time.
Torsten Zenas Burns | FI
Torsten Zenas Burns is a video artist living in Finland. Burns received a BFA in video from the NY State College of Art & Design at Alfred University, and an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has created video, installations, and publishing projects exploring re-imagined education, speculative bodies, post-human improvisations, interspecies stories, Scandinavian mythology, Finnish folklore, family media archives, and ecological fictions. Long-term projects include collaborations with Monika Czyzyk, Darrin Martin, Hanne K. Burns, and Anthony Discenza (Halflifers). Burns’ selected video is distributed by Vtape, and Video Data Bank. Residency programs include Ucross Foundation, Headlands Center for the Arts, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, L.M.C.C. World Views Studio Program, Smackmellon Studio Program, Eyebeam, Harvestworks, The Outpost, Signal Culture, and f.eks. (AIR). Burns is a board member for Vartiosaari Artists ry co-running the artist house studios and residency program on Vartiosaari / Helsinki, Finland.