artist books — Laura Burns

The imaginal anatomy books were made for Jule Fierl and Antonia Baehr for their project "Die Hörtromaune", premiering in Berlin, September 2022.

The Almanac prints map the constellations of performative encounters between an audience member, myself and a group of river stones from the River Wyre, Lancashire. They then become scores and divination symbols for future performative readings. Click on the right hand side of the image to scroll through.

The Almanac prints were integrated into a collaborative publication Flood Drafts under the expansive collective Hungry Mothers. Published with LOAM in 2021 the resonance scores live amongst essays, stories, scores, offerings by a collective of artists working at the intersection of ecology, art, performance, land and ancestral repair.

The Lizard Spirit Manifesto is a book of poetry / scores amalgamated from my site-specific practice during the period 2013-2018. — **The Lizard Spirit Manifesto** is a book of poetry / scores amalgamated from my site-specific practice during the period 2013-2018.

The Unearthings is a hand-bound zig zag book, documenting somatic visions and shamanic journeying carried out over the period 2016-2018, prompted by encounters with socio-political events, materials, place and relationships. — **The Unearthings** is a hand-bound zig zag book, documenting somatic visions and shamanic journeying carried out over the period 2016-2018, prompted by encounters with socio-political events, materials, place and relationships.

This zine was published after my ongoing one-on-one performance Almanac, first performed at SPILL Festival of Performance, 2016. It is an almanac of relations and resonances recorded after each encounter with a participant. The participants were invited into a visualisation and imaginal encounter with the body of stones and the body of river. The resonances of each stone constellation that emerged became another score for future encounter.

This zine was made as a record of the performance collaboration WISHBONE. Four performers were invited into relationship and encounter with land and ancestral traces. The dances that emerged from this deep memory and collaboration with more-than-human, leave their traces in this memory/score book.

The triangle text is a body of writing that emerged through my ongoing research and relationship with the River Wyre, and the Forest of Bowland, in Lancashire UK. It weaves the encounter with that place, ancestral histories of rupture/enclosure, the resonances of the Pendle witches, and how to re-birth the imaginings of place within structures of oppression or languages of erasure. The zine is available as a print-by-demand. Please contact me for details.