Residency of AlanJames Burns

hosted by 180° - Laboratory for Innovative Art Festival

Participating countries:

  • Bulgaria
  • Croatia
  • Ireland
  • United Kingdom
  • Film
  • Theatre
  • Visual Arts
© Sheila Rooney

Period

  • From 01-02-2026 to 31-10-2026
Generation #4

Website

Address

Sofia

Project summary

Unmasking Nature is a site-specific, interactive project informed by the natural environments the artist will encounter in Croatia, the UK and Bulgaria while presenting at each festival. The artist has developed video works, sensory walking events and interactive workshops in the context of Irish sites including Cavan Burren Park, and will develop the project further through new site-specific engagements and participatory workshops with audiences in Croatia, UK and Bulgaria through the EFFEA. Unmasking Nature connects new publics to the healing potential of the landscape and reflects on the place of the human within nature by exploring neurodivergent ways of engaging with the environment.
© Leka Mendes

Artist

AlanJames Burns

Biography: AlanJames Burns is a neurodivergent environmental artist, curator and festival maker working at the intersection of disability and the climate emergency. Their work involves immersive, socially-engaged and collaborative projects. They were the Arts Council of Ireland Clore Leadership Fellow 2023-24.
Recent projects include 'Divergently Together,' a project with neurodivergent communities using BCI technologies to celebrate non-linear perspectives on the climate crisis; ‘Augmented Body, Altered Mind’, 2022, an immersive interactive experience exploring neurodivergence and climate change; and 'Sound On!’ (2021–), an Artist-in-the-Community artwork exploring human rights and happiness for and by people with a learning disability. AlanJames is Director of Disrupt Disability Arts Festival.
Contact: alan@alanjamesburns.com
Website: http://www.alanjamesburns.com
Social media: https://www.instagram.com/alanjamesburns/?hl=en
Work: https://www.alanjamesburns.com/unmasking/ https://www.alanjamesburns.com/augmented/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hRSstJLhBI4KV8_Ni4USwZGBCLmd7JzfMqfzGhpqG8Y/edit?tab=t.0

Participating festivals

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