HOLYOKE RESEARCH/ PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE/ DEMOFORMANCES/ VILM/ MOBILE GEOGRAPHY/ COLLABOTRONICA RE-IMAGINED BOOKS + MAGAZINES/ HHORRRAUTICA/ SPECULATIVE FICTIONS/ RESIDENCY PROGRAMS/ CURATIONS/ KOREANAUTICA Torsten Zenas Burns is an artist and media arts educator living in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Since 2008 he has been curating exhibitions, video screenings, performance art events and magazine projects for PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE based in THE UNCANNY PIONEER VALLEY.
11/14/14
10/18/14
COMPOSITE ARTS MAGAZINE NO. 17 EDUCATORS
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| COMPOSITE ARTS MAGAZINE NO#17 EDUCATORS - LINK HERE ARK3: THE WORKSHOP SCENARIOS (EMBEDDED PHOTO PROJECT) ![]() |
8/22/14
VIDEO SCREENING @ ATA / SAN FRANCISCO, CA
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ATA / Special 30th Year Anniversary Program
Friday, September 5, 2014, 1:00 pm, Ends Sept 6th, 7:00pm.
This September, Artists’ Television Access celebrates its 30th anniversary. This 30-hour marathon screening continues ATA’s tradition of extreme performance and endurance art. The screening begins at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, September 5th, with a brief intermission at 4:00 a.m., and ends at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 6th.
The program will draw from ATA’s long history and beyond of independent, underground, experimental film and video, with work by ATA’s global network of friends, collaborators, and artists. This event is a fundraiser for ATA!
Featured Artists: Alfonso Alvarez, Allison Leigh Holt, Andy Puls, Anne McGuire, Authority Office, Beth Lisick Ordeal, Bill Brown, Bryan Boyce, Bureau of Inverse Technology, Chris Ritson, Cineflix/8 Bit Cinema, Cliff Hengst, Craig Baldwin, Craig Goodman, Damon Packard, David Cox, Dynasty Handbag, Emily Kuehn, eufloria*, Eva Konig, Gary Gregerson, George Kuchar, Greenpeace et al, hobbypopMUSEUM, Jean Poole, Jennifer Locke, Jeremy Rourke, Jesse Drew, Jodie Mack, Joe Gibbons, Kal Spelletich, Kara Herold, Kelly Sears, Kerry Laitala, Kota Ezawa, Lori Varga, Lucy Thane, Mads Lynnerup, Mark Bain, Marshall Weber, Matthew Silver, Mitche Manitou, Molly Hankwitz, Nao Bustamante, Negativeland, Patrick Lichty, Poets Theater (featuring George Kuchar and Scott Hewicker), Rebecca Whipple Silverstein, Richard Mitchell, Ruby Howl, The Helen Lundy Trio, Tommy Becker, Torsten Kretchzmar, Torsten Zenas Burns, Total Shutdown, Vanessa Woods, Wendy Farina, Xiou Ping and more…
Guest Curators: Craig Baldwin, Molly Hankwitz, Karla Milosevich, Anastasia Pahules, Linda Scobie, Lucy Thane, and Kathleen Quillian, with the event organized by Gilbert Guerrero.
Plus pancakes at 6:00 a.m. Free, unlimited coffee refills!
Join the event on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/145496265625510/
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6/9/14
PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE - JUNE 2OTH EVENT
PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE:
SPECULATION(ELATION)5
IS PLEASED TO HOST THREE MEDIA SCREENINGS IN OUR VILM ALLEY.
WOMEN WITH KNIVES FILM TOUR (TRAILER)
PRESENTED BY LAUREN COOK / KELLY GALLAGHER / CHARLOTTE TAYLOR
TOOTH AND NAIL CURATED BY DARRIN MARTIN
PIXIES - SILVER SNAIL
AND
THE BUNNIES - HESITANCE TRIP
DIRECTED BY MATTHEW NEWMAN / MOUNT EMULT / THE BUREAU RECORDS
SPECIAL THANKS TO: PRONOBLEM
THE SCREENING PROJECTION WILL TAKE PLACE FRIDAY, JUNE 20TH
(9-11PM) RECEPTION 7:30PM / THE EVENT IS FREE
PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE: VILM ALLEY / 362 DWIGHT ST. HOLYOKE, MA
4/23/14
4/1/14
3/27/14
3/8/14
CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL
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| 2014 PROGRAM |
Shorts Program 6: Their Hive Energys - 88min
“‘Misery’ doesn’t like ‘company’, – but ‘company’ does love a ‘party’, so come join in on a catastrophic celebration, and do ‘hang on’ tight, – because it’s a steep ride down into the depths of a soul in meltdown mode!” – Video Data Bank
Fantasy is the only morsel available to the leashed dog. – Andy Roche
No man is an island. Give praise! – Iain Bonner
Familiars is an experimental video project re-imagining the Skinner families Massachusetts Wistariahurst family house and grounds as a fictional residency program populated by speculative Holyoke entities. Scenes include variable collaborations between: Kitten & Catman, A living relative, Baseball ramblers, Silk worms, Immersion Man with radar, Frozen birds in a bell jar, Japanese & American mill workers, Ectoplasmic typewriters and spectral publishing entities. – Torsten Zenas Burns
An experiment in silence and its effect on perception. – Whitney Johnston
The second in McCabe’s comedic love letter series. A woman’s missive to her lover archly attempts to patch up an argument. (French with English subtitles) – Kate McCabe
Here is Everything presents itself as a message from The Future, as narrated by a cat and a rabbit, spirit guides who explain that they’ve decided to speak to us via a contemporary art video because they understand this to be our highest form of communication. Their cheeky introduction, however, belies the complex set of ideas that fill the remainder of the film. Death, God, and attaining and maintaining a state of Grace are among the thematic strokes winding their way through the piece, rapturously illustrated with animation, still and video imagery.” - Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
Conjuror’s Box, the latest work in the Muse of Cinema Series, was made using several D.I.Y. collage techniques including: CINEGRAMMING, hand-painting, and the re-animation of magic lantern slides. Conjuror’s Box takes the viewer through the looking glass, to immerse them in a fiery pane of hand-painted wonders. Conjuror’s Box summons forth primordial images of beauty from the hand painted imagery to images of transformation, metamorphosis, and chimera to literary and even ancient, biblical references. The fiery hole becomes a mirror fusion of past and future deaths. – Kerry Laitala
All you ever wanted to know about how sexploitation genius Russ Meyer got to be…Russ Meyer. Watch it! See it! Go! Go! Go! – Todd Rosken
1/21/14
1/17/14
DEMOFORMANCES SCREENING IN NETHERLANDS
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| PHIRE (INSTALLATION) BY ETEAM / DEMOFORMANCES (VIDEO) BY TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS LINK: INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM |

12/31/13
THE BLEEDING GROUNDS
THE BLEEDING GROUNDS
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS, CURATIONS AND
VIDEO SCREENING HISTORIES 1990 - 2013
TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS / VIROCODE
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS, CURATIONS AND
VIDEO SCREENING HISTORIES 1990 - 2013
TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS / VIROCODE
12/12/13
12/1/13
11/9/13
PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE PRESENTS:
LAKE HITCHCOCK CENTER FOR THE BOOK ARTS
MAGAZINE 1: THE UNCANNY PIONEER VALLEY
MAGAZINE LAUNCH & LOOPED VIDEO SCREENING
VARIABLE INDEX
The 122 page magazine will include alternate covers, artist pages, national & international
dispatches, research projects, puzzles and secrets from over 45 contributors.
THE EDU CORRIDOR
The magazine will also include student project pages and video from both
Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA, Department of Communication, Media and Theater arts
and Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, Department of Art.
VIDEO CURATION
Accompanying the publication will be a special one night only looped
video screening curated around the theme of performance art for the camera.
TIME & DATE & ADDRESS
PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE: 362 DWIGHT ST. HOLYOKE, MA
EVENT & RECEPTION (FREE): SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23RD, 7-10:30PM
ALTERNATE COVERS
DARRIN MARTIN / DENIS LUZURIAGA / SCOTT REILLY
AMY JOHNQUEST / BANNERQUEEN / FAFNIR ADAMITES
RJ MESSINEO / SUZANNE LOMANTO / JIM SHEA / SAMUEL ROWLETT
DISPATCHES
GREG SAULMON / CHRIS NELSON / JUSTIN P. WEST
JAY DUCHARME / SAMUEL ROWLETT / DAPHNE BOARD
KARL ERICKSON
THE EDU CORRIDOR
HOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE / PERFORMANCE ART
FOR THE CAMERA CLASS - STUDENTS
BROOKLYN COLLEGE / DIGITAL VIDEO CLASS - STUDENTS
ARTIST PAGES
JAMIL HELLU / SARA BLISS / HOWIE CHERMAN / DENISE IRIS
KARL ERICKSON / BODYBANKS & CAT GIRL GENERATOR
MIRIAM DYM / ALEXIS FEDORJACZENKO
CHRISTIAN BURNS - burnsWORK / ANTHONY DISCENZA
MITCH PATRICK / GX JUPPITER-LARSEN / THE HATERS
ARIEL KOTKER / SIMGE HOUGH / DAN GREENWOOD / DIAGRAM A
BAIRD SOULES / SYNTHHUMPERS: JIM SUPANICK & JOSH SOLONDZ
PUZZLES
KARI GATZKE / GX JUPPITER-LARSEN / READYMADE
LOOPED VIDEO SCREENING:
(PERFORMANCE ART FOR THE CAMERA)
SARA BLISS / DENISE IRIS / KARL ERICKSON
BODYBANKS + CAT GIRL GENERATOR / MIRIAM DYM
NEIL YOUNG / CLOACA / CHRISTIAN BURNS - burnsWORK
MITCH PATRICK / SAMUEL ROWLETT
GX JUPPITER-LARSEN / THE HATERS
SYNTHHUMPERS: JIM SUPANICK & JOSH SOLONDZ
ARIEL KOTKER / BEN HERSEY
DAN GREENWOOD / DIAGRAM A / MONICA PANZARINO
KAREN CHOY + AMANDA FIGUEROA - BROOKLYN COLLEGE
MICHAEL SAVAGE + ANGEL MARTINEZ - HOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
PRONOBLEM / CHRIS NELSON / HOWIE CHERMAN
AMARA HARK-WEBER / MERCEDES TEIXIDO
10/17/13
PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE @ THE CANAL CREATURE CRAWL
PARSONS HALL PROJECT
SPACE
PRESENTS:
MOBILE GEOGRAPHY PERFORMANCE SERIES #6
PHOTO-INTERACTABLES & COS-PLAY VOLLEY(BALL)))
A HYBRID PERFORMANCE SERIES PAYING HOMAGE TO TWO
ARTISTS AND ONE SPORT ALL SPAWNED IN HOLYOKE, MA.
THE INDIVIDUALS ARE:
WILLIAM
WEGMAN (CONCEPTUAL ARTIST / PHOTOGRAPHER)
KNOWN FOR VIDEO ART AND COLLABORATIONS WITH HIS MANY DOGS
ARTHUR ADAMS (COMIC BOOK ILLUSTRATOR)
KNOWN FOR HIS 1990’S CREATION “MONKEYMAN & O’BRIEN”
THE SPORT IS:
VOLLEYBALL (INVENTED BY WILLIAM MORGAN IN 1895)
PHOTO-INTERACTABLES
PHOTO-INTERACTABLE
(WEGMAN-ENTITY) #1
4X6ft. Mixed media interactive photo stands.
PHOTO-INTERACTABLE
(ADAMS-ENTITY) #2
4X6ft. Mixed media interactive photo stands.
COS-PLAY VOLLEYBALL X2
Costume volleyball event with two joined nets.
The variable project is a collaboration
between
The City of Holyoke, PARSONS HALL PROJECT
SPACE, media artist Torsten Zenas Burns and students from Holyoke Community
College - Performance Art for the Camera class taught in the Department of
Communication, Media and Theater arts.
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
City of Holyoke
Jeffrey
C. Bianchine: Creative Economy Coordinator
Canal Creature Crawl / Nancy Howard Smith / M.I.F.A.
Signs Plus, Holyoke, MA
Kari Gatzke
/ Denis Luzuriaga
Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA
The Dept. of Communication, Media and Theater
arts. Holyoke, MA
HCC (EMS) student participants
PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE /
HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS
EVENT
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26TH - 4PM-12AM
HERITAGE STATE PARK / 2ND CANAL / HOLYOKE
CITY HALL
10/10/13
10/5/13
HALFLIFERS SCREENING / TORINO, ITALY
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| ARTISSIMA INTERNATIONAL FAIR OF CONTEMPORARY ART NOVEMBER 2013 AFTERLIFERS VISIT ITALY / BLOOD ORANGE PROPS ACTIVATE |
9/28/13
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