Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin Martin

Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin Martin

Biography

Burns and Martin began their collaborations in the video and sculpture programs at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University. Together, Burns and Martin have based their single channel videotapes and current sculptural works on their research into diverse speculative fictions and re-imagined educational practices. Burns creates videotapes, photographs, and installations exploring fictions that include zombie and afterlife relationships, experimental space programs, fictional medical practices, physical and psychic slapstick. Martin creates sculpture, print, performance and video works that examine various relationships the body has to urban architectures, landscapes, interactive technologies, and physiological and psychological testing procedures.

Burns was born in 1968. He received his B.F.A. from the School of Art & Design at Alfred University and an M.F.A. in video and performance from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Martin was born in 1969. He received his B.F.A. from the School of Art & Design at Alfred University and an M.F.A. from The University of California, San Diego.

Burns and Martin have shown at venues including The New York Video Festival; Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; Madrid Museum of Contemporary Art; Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art; Champ Libre, Montreal; MOOV 2002 Festival, New York; and the Paris/Berlin International.

Burns lives in New York. Martin lives in Alfred, NY.