Torsten Zenas Burns

Born - Laguna Beach, California

Burns was born in 1968 and lives in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He received his M.F.A. in video and performance from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993.   Burns and Darrin Martin began their collaborations in the video and sculpture programs at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University where they both received a B.F.A.  

Burns creates videotapes, photographs, and installations exploring fictions that include zombie and afterlife relationships, experimental space programs, fictional medical practices, and psychic slapstick/splatstick routines. Burns has several collaborators including Anthony Discenza of HalfLifers, VIROCODE, and The Foundry dance group.

 

 

Artist Collection List

Title Year Runtime Collection
Actions in Action 1997 10 minutes 30 seconds Single Titles
Afterlifers: Walking and Talking 2004 16 minutes 15 seconds Single Titles
American Psycho(drama): Sigmund Freud vs. Henry Ford 1999 1 hour 17 minutes Curated Compilations
Aquatics 1997 6 minutes 30 seconds Single Titles
Control Corridor 1997 11 minutes Single Titles
Fear of Rescue 1997 10 minutes Single Titles
HalfLifers: Action Series 1999 21 minutes 30 seconds Single Artist Compilations
HalfLifers: Rescue Series 1998 28 minutes 30 seconds Single Artist Compilations
HalfLifers: The Complete History, 1992 - 2010 2011 2 hours 7 minutes 30 seconds Single Artist Compilations
Harvest 1999 12 minutes Single Titles
Homesteaders 1999 16 minutes Single Titles
I Am Today's Lesson Plan 2004 10 minutes 30 seconds Single Titles
I.S.L.A.N.D.S. Series 1998 23 minutes 15 seconds Single Titles
Mess Hall 1999 10 minutes Single Titles
Rescue Parables 1994 4 minutes 30 seconds Single Titles
Return to Rescueworld 1996 7 minutes 30 seconds Single Titles
Soft Science 2005 1 hour 3 minutes 45 seconds Curated Compilations