A.K. Burns (b. 1975) is Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist who views the body as a contentious domain wherein issues of gender, labor, ecology and sexuality are negotiated. Working to agitate these systems of value, Burns utilizes video, installation, sculpture, drawing and collaboration. Burns is currently working on Negative Space (2012-onging), a cycle of multi-media works that draw on theater, philosophy, quantum theory and ecological fragility. Conjuring and deconstructing science fiction tropes, Negative Space builds each episode around physical systems: sun, void, land, water, and body. The opening episode, A Smeary Spot , is a 4-channel 53 minute video installation that debut in 2015 at Participant Inc., NY. The installation that explores the ‘sun’ as a manifestation of power, a source of both life and death and around which the other episodes circulate. The following episode, Living Room was shown at the New Museum in NY, in 2017. It is a 36-minute, two-channel
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