COLLABOTRONICA - CHICAGO 2010

TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS
PRESENTS:
COLLABOTRONICA:(CHICAGO)-60:00 2010

THE NIGHTINGALE
1084 N. Milwaukee
Chicago, IL 60642
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 13TH

8PM - $7-10 (SUGGESTED DONATION)

Torsten Zenas Burns works with lots of different mediums and with lots of different people. COLLABOTRONICA is a sample of different projects created in tandem with artists, Anne McGuire Darrin Martin, Christian K. Burns, and HALFLIFERS. Traversing through the worlds of Choreography, Performance, Video, and New Media, he explores the realms of performed identity through fantasy characters and has an interest in re-envisioning educational spaces. Often creating animated counterparts of his collaborators, TZB creates spaces where kinesthetics meets virtual life. For example, WHAT IF?BEYOND A CARNALOVE, made with longtime collaborator, Darrin Martin utilizes danceforms software that recreates choreography by Merce Cunningham. Weird and playful, TZB's works feel a bit like a good recess. The pleasure of movement and imaginative improvisation win the day. –Christy LeMaster / The Nightingale

SHIP TO SHIP

Variable date & Time-Torsten Zenas Burns

VEHICULAR VIDEO DOCKING

& Interfacing between three residency forms.

(Yellow Immersion Suit / Manbody / Pink Computer)

(Special thanks to Michael O'Malley)

KOREANAUTICA

15:30-2010 -(work in progress)-Torsten Zenas Burns

Scenes in KOREANAUTICA explore re-imagined space training workshops,gestural relationships,sculptural set-ups,and micro / macro music vehicle delivery systems. Further scenes investigate ritualistic medical treatments, bokko dancing, sexuality,hygiene, squidnautica man-infestations,and the video arts aboard a fictional Korean space station.

(STELARC - Workshop #1)
3:00-2009-Torsten Zenas Burns + Christian K. Burns
(THIRD-ARM) improvisations at the Holyokeresearch
gestural residency program.

What-if? Beyond a Carnalove

17:00-2009-Torsten Zenas Burns + Darrin Martin

Utilizing an excess of workshop materials to focus on the mating rituals of Orlan within the complicated foursome, simultaneously contextualizing her within a grouping of characters that push the boundaries of the very definition of the word carnal.Re-envisioned Orlan operations are performed by her lovers in tandem with intimate dates that develop their deepening relationships.

(JAIME – Workshop #2)
1:30-2009-Torsten Zenas Burns + Anne McGuire
I am Jaime Sommers! – (No! … I am Jaime Sommers)

I.S.L.A.N.D.S. (0): BIG COMBO

13:00-2010-HALFLIFERS
Part One:(DIDN’T WORK-DISTRIBUTION IS DOWN)

Dual trajectories through lush innerscapes propel us into
color-saturated action scenarios, where the mission to
re-establish identity and sustain communicatin linkage
is never-ending. Retreating the way we came, we find
ourselves further out --or deeper in?
Part Two:(DIDN’T WORK-DVD NOT BURNED)

A useful inanimate object, burdened with excessive
psychic residue, is funneled through HALFLIFE for a
complete wipe-down and a few healthy exersizes.
Part Three:(DIDN’T WORK-BOUGHT A BUILDING INSTEAD OF MAKING ART)

Frantic re-application of a fluid medium within
pre-sentized areas transports us to the edge of a
churning sea of potential activity. Pitted against the
pounding energy currents, we find we can barely hold
our own. And when the tap runs dry its time to move on!
Part Zero:(WORKING THE WORK)