Basic Talks – Alan James Burns

Join us for a talk with artist Alan James Burns,

Alan James Burns (they/them) is a neurodivergent and environmental artist, curator and festival maker. Their practice is marked by socially engaged, and site-specific projects. The focal points of their highly collaborative practice are disability, the climate emergency, and the pursuit of a just society.

Recent projects include; ‘Disrupt Disability Arts Festival’, an annual festival taking place on at Project Arts centre and online; ‘Divergently Together’, 2024-26 a national Creative Ireland climate action project exploring the climate crisis through the perspective of disability; ‘The Waking Walls’ 2023, an immersive audio-lament that connects Caoineadh, traditional Irish mourning practices, to understanding experiences of ecological grief; ‘Our Place’, 2020-2024, a socially engaged sound art and placemaking project with Sinead McCann and St John of God that champions the human rights of people living with intellectual disabilities.

This talk will be Irish Sign Language (ISL) interpreted by Susan Foley-Cave.

Free, book or come on the day subject to availability.

Basic Talks is a series of talks with leading contemporary practitioners, taking place at the Hugh Lane Gallery. Curated by Basic Space in partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, BASIC TALKS is a platform for lectures, workshops, presentations, and performances. Speakers include artists, curators, writers, and critics who will generate discourse on producing, framing and exhibiting art. BASIC TALKS is a collaboration between Basic Space and the Hugh Lane Gallery, exploring alternatives in the dissemination of contemporary art and its discourses.

Host or Publisher Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane