A.K. Burns in Conversation with Geo Wyex and Kelly Kivland

A.K. Burns (she/her) has exhibited internationally at venues and festivals including Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France; MMK Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt, Germany; and FRONT International: The Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art in Ohio, among others. Negative Space was introduced with A Smeary Spot, debuting at Participant Inc. in New York in 2015, followed by Living Room at the New Museum in New York in 2017. In 2019, Leave No Trace premiered at the Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf, Germany, and was produced with the support of Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Learn more on Burns’s website.

Geo Wyex (he/they) is an artist and educator originally from New York who works in music, performance, poetry, and sound. His most recent record, ATM FM (2020), was released through Muck Studies Dept.—“a constellational narrative framework and imaginary city agent that surveys the bottom of low-lying water areas, ‘looking for stars out of what stinks.’” Muck Studies Dept. as a project is a Weltanschauung (worldview), with many forms and formats. Inspired by the aesthetics and methodologies of Black Atlantic poetics, investigative journalism, and storytelling theater, the project “connects mud, water, gas, ass, rocks, coins, keys, extractive industry, and sensual expression of belonging to that flood.” Wyex has presented work in New York at MoMA PS1, the New Museum, The Public, and The Studio Museum in Harlem; in Amsterdam at the Stedelijk Museum and Dutch National Opera; and in Lausanne, Switzerland, at the Arsenic Contemporary Performing Arts Center, among others. He was a resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in 2015 and 2016. His recent collaborators include A.K. Burns, Every Ocean Hughes, Colin Self, and Tourmaline. Wyex is currently based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and lives next to the Meuse River.

Learn more about Kelly Kivland on her staff page.