Burnett helped recover and configure The Milcom Memory Box, a “temporary deinstallation” currently at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in Manhattan. Special thanks to Federica Soletta, who took the lead on this important ESTAR(SER) project. More information here.
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Burnett worked with the “Always in Threes” Working Group of ESTAR(SER) to prepare the “PAS DE TROIS: THE MUSIC OF ATTENTION AND THE FRYE TRUNK” performance lecture, a new piece of dream-study delving the archival poetics of radical attention. Yes, there is organ music…
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The Milcom Memorial Library and Attention Library featured as an installation at Mana Contemporary from 2018-2023, and hosted programming, events, and exhibitions related to the ongoing work of the research collective ESTAR(SER). A follow-on installation, “The Milcom Memory Box,” is forthcoming later this year…
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Since 2018, Burnett has been working with THE FRIENDS OF ATTENTION, a loose coalition of artists, activists, and others who think about (and practice) forms of attention “resistant to commodification.” Lots of stuff here.
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Stills from Yara Flores’s short film The Kinetics of Textual Immersion appear in the new book from Dispersed Holdings: READING ROOM (2020).
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In addition, Burnett and Loh have a project, “Protocol for Two People and Two Unread Books,” in the volume.
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At the 2019 Spring Break Art Fair Burnett was one of the bootleg artists in Marisa Jahn’s “Rubbings and Bootlegs” installation. He did “bootleg” reinterpretation/knock-offs of selected works in the exhibition on commission.
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Yara Flores did a poster (“Self-portrait by a Friend,” 2018) in the “BB8 after BB8” exhibition, a post-hoc riff on the 2018 Bucharest Biennial.
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Yara Flores has a piece in Navigation, edited by Hinrich Sachs and his friends in Eindhoven.
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Yara Flores had work in the group show Please Touch: Body Boundaries at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City.
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The Spring, 2018 issue of CAC Journal features Yara Flores. A tenth Issue release celebration involved a new and celebratory commission — part of a trans-Atlantic mind-over-matter launch event on the 15th of April, 2018.
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Yara Flores has work in Nina and Conny Blom’s new book: Conceptual Art (2017).
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On 2 December 2016 Yara Flores’ solo show Greebles opened at Raygun. More here.
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Yara Flores had work in “Fifteen People Present Their Favorite Book (after Kosuth),” open from 26 October – 11 November 2016 at Škuc Gallery in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Yara Flores has new work in Tennis (Stockholm: Drucksache, 2015): a visual essay on the American Marxist artist-illustrator David Johnson Leisk (1906-1975).
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Burnett and a group of collaborators and friends installed a project at the 2015 Ljubljana Biennial. Here is a description (click for a few images):
Burnett has been appointed to the Editorial Committee of the Proceedings of ESTAR(SER). More about the research consortium here, and recent updates on new work in the community here.
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Burnett and his friend/collaborator Mark Dion recently assembled a portfolio piece on the purposes of science for the Chicago-based platform The Point. “What is Science For?” juxtaposes found text and installation views; it kicks off an eponymous “Symposium” section of Issue 8.
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Burnett has been involved with the work of an innovative consulting organization, which works to bring contemporary artists and large corporations together in unpredictable ways. The CDC/ICD is an ongoing project, with recent engagements at The New Museum and the Sean Kelly Gallery.
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In 2014, Burnett and Yara Flores teamed up to present “Pound vs. Stevens: The Rematch,” an installation in a pop-up exhibition which accompanied the Aesthetics of Information symposium at Princeton University. See more here, here, and here. This represented an outgrowing of work that began in 2009, a conceptual project involving chess and the novel.
For a taste of the earlier work, click here to read an experimental essay in “ludic criticism”; or click here to go right to the first fruit of the collaboration, an online computer program that lets you pit one novel against another in a chess match. The US Chess Federation recently ran a story about this project—click here to check it out.
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In 2012, as part of the IHUM “Pay Attention” workshop, Yara Flores and Burnett produced this short on Althusser’s “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.”
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Burnett and video artist Lisa Young teamed up in 2010 on a multimedia project that premiered as part of “Seeing from Above,” a conference at the Wellcome Collection, London. Part éloge, part montage, the collaborative piece, “Free Fall: The Life and Times of Bud ‘Crosshairs’ MacGinitie,” is an experiment in biographical sky-diving.