About the Artist A.K. Burns is an American contemporary artist and educator who explores the intersections of land, body, and time. A non-gender-conforming artist, Burns’ early career centered community through exploring gender and sexual identity in collaborative projects such as Community Action Center (2010), a video pornography with A. L. Steiner. With this inclination towards community, Burns took trans-feminist issues to other stages including various museum institutions (The Whitney, MoMA, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art) with the performance intervention The Poetry Parade… (2014) , and publishing with the project RANDY (2010 –13). In 2008, Burns also co-founded W.A.G.E. (Working Artists in the Greater Economy), a non-profit arts advocacy group which remains in operation, advocating for fair labor contracts between artists and institutions and sustainable, self-regulatory, and equitable fund distribution in the arts. Burns has also developed a rich repertoire of sculp- ture which often nods to notions of the ready-made in an appropriation of post-minimal impulses. It can be said that the core to all of Burns’ projects is the insistence that issues of politics and identity are not separated out into varying categories but rather stream into and affect all facets of existence.
Emily Small is an American scholar and emerging curator from Northern California whose interests focus on queer and feminist methodologies in contemporary craft, performance, and video. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2018 where she studied the historical intersections between performance art, textiles, and social activism.
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