A.K. Burns, Corporeal Soil, 2017
A.K. Burns, Corporeal Soil, 2017
13 Roland Barthes, Annette Lavers, and Colin Smith, Elements of Semiology (New York: Hill and Wang, 1968), 57. 14 Joanna Szupinska, “Máquinas Solteras: On the Bachelor Machine in Latino and Latin American Art,” in Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas (Riverside, California: UCR ARTSblock, 2017): 65. lative fiction is the bringing together of contradictory realities…The result is a slippage between self and other, male and female, ego and superego, robotic and organic, and science and faith.” 14 In Burns’ work, notions of representation, (political, environmental, and personal) are troubled through experimental and experiential processes which reveal the entanglement of existence. Artwork like Burns’ presents new temporal and spatial representa- tions through speculative encounters which articulate how hegemonic and supremic powers such as the American Dream are contemporarily tied to both existential issues such as climate collapse, and intrapersonal issues such as the articulation of identity and belonging. As Burns has said, binaries are not inherently wrong, however the power imbalances which govern through them require disruption if we are to navigate into a world of desire, celebration, freedom, and justice.
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