about
Dianne Burdon is an artist, writer, and researcher concerned with bodies, sensing, feeling, and the daily realisations of utopia between people. A restless artistic practice has seen them evolve from a spontaneous approach to live musical performance, towards a slower consideration of sound and composition. This movement has led to an embrace of field recordings, drones, digital sampling, and patience in her sound work, building off extensive years of experimentation with sound design and self-taught home recording techniques.
Intertwined with her artistic practice are studies within and without the institution. Dianne’s current interest centres on the interaction between bodies and infrastructure. She is particularly interested in periods of transition, unsettling, breakdown, and fixing. Having recently completed an MSc at the University of Glasgow, exploring the material qualities of online DIY hormone markets for trans people and the new vernacluars of transness contained therein, Dianne is now studying for an MRes in Human Geography. During which time they will be developing a research proposal on the role of hotels in the UK forced migration process outside of major metropolitan areas.
As part of Extense, a collaboration with Glasgow based artist Clara Hancock, Dianne took part in the FieldARTS 2024 residency exploring sites of imperialist infrastructure along the Clyde corridor. During this residency the duo began to map an exploration into technology as a sensuous extension of the body, and how these extensions might translate fieldsites in ways that would ordinarily escape our sensory capacities allowing for unexpected insights to be generated. A project of playful study centred around untangling the epistemic constraints of energy futures.