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Bill Burns

Hans Ulrich Obrist Hear US

Table of Contents page no.

Proposal 2-9

Press (related) 10-14

Portfolio (related) 15-19

CV 20-23

MASS MoCA, North Adams, USA (study 2012)

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Hans Ulrich Obrist Hear Us

Hans Ulrich Obrist Hear Us uses sheeps milk, timber, farm labour, ritual and language as itsmaterial. It asks us to take a critical look at the our situations, our economies and our institutions. Hans Ulrich Obrist Hear Us would take place in somewhere in Kingston. It has two parts as follows.

First, I propose to make a sign on a prominent building venue to be decided. The sign would bear the expression Hans Ulrich Obrist Hear Us or a similar entreaty. The expression "Hear Us' comes from a prayer form known as a litany. Litanies are call and response prayers.

Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (study 2012)

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The names on the proposed sign and the othersigns in this series such as, Hou Hanru, Beatrix Ruf and Hans Ulrich Obrist, come from my knowledge of the field as well as my personal experience. Second, I propose a series of public events involving sheeps milk, wool and timber. My proposed project draws attention to our relationship to the city, the farm, the woodlot, the life of animals, the life of people, the citizen, the regime. In short, the project asks, in a round about kind of way, what is the shape of the world we want to live in.

This second part would take the various forms including sheepshearing, sheep milking, log carving, log piling and coating logs with milk. My questions reflect my curiosity about our situation in art and beyond. Hans Ulrich Obrist Hear Us trades on market fetishization and hagiography. My project asks, What is art?What is ritual? What is resistance? What do we long for? The following pictures documents of a sheep shearing and milking performance studies and the art world celebrity logs and gloves from installations at MASS MoCA (North Adams, USA), ICA (London) and Mulherin + Pollard (New York).

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Making Sheeps milk and wool performance and studies. (MKG127, Toronto, 2011)

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Installation views at Mass MoCA (2013) top explaining logs to the board (remade photo after William Burroughs and Brion Gysin) bottom: log pile, work glove machine and drawings

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Installation views from Mulherin + Pollard, New York. Chalkboard is 160 x 300CM; logs are 160CM long each)

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above: studies for Tate Modern, London and New Museum, New York. Hans Ulrich Obrist is director of the Serpentine Gallery in London. Steven Cohen is a collector in New York.

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above: studies for MASS MoCA and Museum of Contemporary Art, Rio de Janeiro. Adam Weinberg is director of Whitney Museum. Iwona Blazwich is director at the Whitechapel Gallery.

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above: studies for Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin and Singapore Art Museum. Beatrix Ruf is director of Kunsthalle Zurich and Hou Hanru has been curator of Shanghai, Istanbul and Lyon Biennials.

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Sarah Milroy, Globe and Mail, Toronto, September 2012

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Robert Enright, followed by an artist project by Bill Burns (next 3 pages), Border Crossings, Winnipeg, winter 2011

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above: installation view from left showing proving machine for gloves, bespoke log bags and watercolours. below: watercolour detail from a Brownnosers Story.

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Bespoke Log Bags, unbleached cotton and zippers (log bags are about 90-160 cm long) (2012)

Proving Machine for work gloves, (a robotic machine for testing durability of embroidered art world celebrity work gloves) (2010/2012)

Bespoke Art World Celebrity Work Gloves, 12x16cm (2000-2012)

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watercolour detail from a Brownnosers Story or Hans Ulrich Obrist Priez Pour Nous.

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watercolour detail from a Brownnosers Story or Hans Ulrich Obrist Priez Pour Nous.

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watercolour detail from a Brownnosers Story or Hans Ulrich Obrist Priez Pour Nous.

more pictures: http://billburnsprojects.com/?page_id=1246

press : http://billburnsprojects.com/?page_id=1143

my web site: http://billburnsprojects.com/

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Bill E. Burns email: animalsafety@gmail.com

EDUCATION 1988 Master of Arts (Fine Arts) Goldsmiths' College,

University of London, London, England

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS and PROJECTS selected 2014 Helsinki Photo Biennale, Helsinki

2013 Biennale de St Etienne, St Etienne, France Davis Museum, Barcelona, Spain 2012 Mulherin + Pollard, New York

C4 Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 2011 Mendes-Wood Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2010 Fundacion Cristina Enea, San Sebastian, Spain

MKG 127, Toronto, Canada Quebec City Biennial, Quebec, Quebec

2009 Kunsthalle KBH, Krabbesholm, Skive, Denmark AM Richard Fine Art, Brooklyn, New York

2008 Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England MKG 127, Toronto, Canada

2007 KW ICA, garden project, Berlin, Germany California State University - Fullerton, Los Angeles

2006 Amden Utopian Colony, Amden by Zurich, Switzerland 2005 Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada 2002 Wellcome Trust, London, England 2000 Art Resources Transfer, New York 1996 Art Resources Transfer, New York 1994 303 Gallery, New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS selected 2013 MASS MoCA, North Adams, Mass, USA 2011 Arnolfini, Bristol, England

Kunstraum d21, Leipzig, Germany 2010 Tensta Konsthall, Spanga - Stockholm, Sweden 2009 Kunsthallen Brandts Odense, Denmark

Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark Andreas Grimm Galerie, Munich, Germany

2008 Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles AKI, Enschede, The Netherlands

2007 El Basilisco, Buenos Aires, Argentina Orchard 47, New York

2005 Museum of Modern Art, New York 2002 Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

PUBLISHED BOOKS and EDITIONS selected

2012 Dogs and Boats and Airplanes Childrens Choir, 33 RPM vinyl LP, Big Pond Small Fish, Toronto and EKS MFG Brooklyn, New York

2011 Dogs and Boats and Airplanes told in the form of Ivan the Terrible Version, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, Denmark Three Books and a Record about Plants, Animals and War, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Cologne, Germany

2010 Two Boiler Suits and a Play List for Primates, YYZ, Toronto

2008 The Flora and Fauna Information Service:

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0.800.0FAUNA0FLORA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England

2007 Bird Radio, KW ICA, Berlin, Germany, and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Cologne, Germany

2006 Five Books about Safety and Animals, Boxed edition of books published by 303 Gallery, New York, Plug In, Winnipeg, William English, London

2003 Urban Fauna Information Station, (Burns, Gould, Vatnsdal collaboration), FGH and Mercer Union, Montreal and Toronto

READINGS and PERFORMANCES selected

2010 Bird Songs for Afghanistan, Fundacion Cristina Enea, San Sebastian, Spain

2009 My Life in the Art World, Titus Auditorium, a reading, Museum of Modern Art, New York

2008 The Flora and Fauna Information Service, ICA, London, England

PUBLISHED PROJECTS selected Dogs and Boats and Airplanes (Ivan the Terrible Version), Esopus, New York, Winter, 2012 My Life in the Artworld, Border Crossings, Winnipeg, Winter, 2011 Bird Radio for Afghanistan, Centre-fold Artists Project, C-Magazine, Toronto, October, 2010 Dogs and Boats and Airplanes, photo work, Prefix Photo, Toronto, 2011 The Last Book, contribution to anthology edited by Luis Canmitzer, National Library of Argentina, Buenos Aires, 2008 The Story of the Museum of Safety Gear for Small Animals, Alphabet City, MIT PRESS, Cambridge, USA, 2002 How to Help Animals Escape from Natural History, (bear version), HQ Magazine, Sydney, Australia, October, 1999 How to Help Animals Escape from Natural History, (penguins and deer versions), Harper's Magazine, New York, April, 1999 The Needs of Animals, RE/Search, New York and San Francisco, 1996

AWARDS and COMMISSIONS selected Kone Fellowship, Helsinki, Finland, 2012 MacDowell Fellowship, Peterborough, New Hampshire, 2005, 2009 Leon Levy Foundation Grant, New York, 2009 Danish International Visiting Artist Award, (DIVA) Danish Arts Agency, Copenhagen, 2008 Ministry of Culture Travel Award, Bienal del fin del Mundo, Government of Argentina, 2007 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, New York, 2002 Wellcome Trust Commission, London, England, 2002 Weatherspoon Art Museum, Production Commission, Greensboro, North Carolina, 2002 Overseas Research Scheme Award, ORS, Government of the United Kingdom, (declined), London, England 1998-2000 Wysing Arts, Production Commission, Cambridge, England, 2000

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L'APAPE, Foreign Artistic Research Grant, Government of France, Paris, France, 1997

CATALOGUES selected Oh Canada/ The Veblen Good, MIT PRESS, Cambridge, USA, 2012 The Museum Show, Arnolfini, Bristol, England, 2011 Catastrophe, Manif dart 5, Quebec City Biennial, Quebec, 2010 I-Land, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark, 2009 Rethink Kakotopia, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009 Safe: Design Takes on Risk, essay by Paola Antoinelli, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2006 Betes de Style, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2006 Safety Gear for Small Animals, MOCCA, Toronto and Cal State University Fullerton, Los Angeles, 2005 Sign and Sound, essay by Wayne Baerwaldt, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, 2003 Evento Teorico - Forum Arte-Vida, Octava Bienal de la Habana, Havana Cuba, 2003 Everything I could buy on eBay about Malaria and Mosquitoes, Wellcome Trust, essay by Denna Jones, London, England, 2002

BIBLIOGRAPHY selected

Steven Lam, Anne Sophie Witzke, Politics of Ecology, (Bill Burns Safety Gear) Third Text, London, December, no. 120, 2012 Sarah Milroy, Hey its me Bill, Globe and Mail, Toronto, p.R5,, September 1, 2012 Sam Thorne, Museum Show, Frieze Magazine, London, April 2012 Sarah Bassnett, Bill Burns Three Books and a CD About Plants and Animals at War, Journal of Artists Books, Chicago, Winter 2012 Melanie Pocock, Museum Show, This is Tomorrow Magazine (www), London, December 2011 Louise Sarant, Almasry Alyoum, Bill Burns - Artist takes on ecological cause, Cairo, Egypt, November, 08, 2011 Martin Herbert, Artforum, preview of Museum Show at Arnolfini, New York, September, 2011 Regina Papachlimitzou, Museum Show, Aesthetica Magazine, London, England, October 2011 Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times, London, England, September, 23/24, 2011 Bryne McLaughlin, Canadian Art Magazine, online review, Toronto, August 26, 2011 Robert Enright, Bill Burns, Border Crossings, Winnipeg, Winter, 2011 Murray Whyte, Shear Artistry Bill Burns, Toronto Star, Dec 3, 2010 Jennifer Allen, Recent publications ... Bill Burns, Mousse Magazine, Milan, Italy, October, 2010 Gentiane Belanger, Bill Burns: Of Animals ..., C-Magazine, p24-29, Toronto, September, 2010 Ulrika Stahre, Fran pardis till klimathot, Aftobladet, Del 1, sidan 5, Stockholm, Sweden, Mar. 6, 2010 Review, Domus Magazine, Rethink: Kakotopia, Milan, Italy, November, 2009 Madeleine Bunting, When Nature Calls, (photo), Guardian, London, England, Arts p. 19 December 3, 2009

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Jennifer Allen, Boiler Suits and a Play List for Primates, I-Land Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark, 2009 Renay Egami, The Lake Journal, University or British Columbia, Kelowna and Vancouver, Fall 2009 Mark Pawson, Variant, Glasgow, Scotland, Summer 2008 Rachel Dixon, The Green Agenda - Bill Burns, Guardian, London, England, February 6, 2008 Jennifer Gabrys, www.afetall.org, Afterall, London, England, August, 2008 Judith Hoffsberg, Bird Radio, Umbrella, Los Angeles, Winter 2008 Birgit Sonna, Gasmasken fur Hasen, Sddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, p 45, Feb. 12, 2008 Theo Douglas, For Their Protection, Orange County Weekly, Los Angeles, p33, Feb. 23, 2007 Stefan Koldehof, Lachen als Gegner der Angst, Welt am Sonntag, Berlin, p66, Oct. 23, 2005 Hillarie Sheets, Safe Keeping, Time Out, New York, Nov. 10-16, 2005 Aaron Dalton, Designer Gear for the Apocalypse, Wired, San Francisco, Oct. 17, 2005 Sarah Milroy, Champion of the (fury) little guy, Globe and Mail, Toronto, p.R5, January 22, 2005Judith Hoffsberg, Urban Fauna Information Station, Umbrella, Los Angeles, 2004 Park Soo-mee, Sign and Sound, Joong Ang Daily, Seoul, Sept. 5, 2003 Holland Cotter, Up in Arms, New York Times, March 21, 2003 Jessica Lack, Bill Burns, The Guardian, London, England, Sept. 16, 2002 Martin Herbert, Bill Burns, Time Out, London, England, p 55, Sept. 5-11, 2002 Claire McKenna, Everything I could buy about Malaria on eBay by Bill Burns, British Medical Journal (BMJ), London, p.225, July 27, 2002 Helen Sumpter, Bill Burns, London Evening Standard, London, England, p.43, July 5-11, 2002Mark Swartz, When Pain Strikes, New Art Examiner, Chicago, Winter 2000

WORKS in COLLECTIONS selected Cabinet des Estampes, (editions and prints) Geneva, Switzerland Museum of Modern Art, (books, photos and editions) New York Wellcome Trust Collection, (sculpture, drawings) London National Gallery of Canada, (books, prints and editions) Ottawa Beth Rudin-Dewoody Collection, (sculpture) Los Angeles Hoggard Wagner Art Collection, (multiples), New York Victoria and Albert Museum, (books) London, England Cleveland Art Institute, (books), Cleveland Albright-Knox Art Gallery, (books) Buffalo, New York Tate Britain, (books and ephemera) London The Getty Center, (audio works, prints and editions) Los Angeles Robert Menschel Media Arts Center, University of Syracuse, photographs) Syracuse, New York Roman Kurtzmeier Collection, (editions), Basel, Switzerland Chelsea College Rare Books Collection, London Institute, (audio works, books and editions), London

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