AFTERLIFERS: WALKING &TALKING-VARIABLE TIME-(C)2004

Unliving and Undead partners shuttle between the day and night in their custom gravicles
talking,walking and exploring residency activated splatstick......

The HalfLifers exhume cinema's favorite incarnation of mindless, decaying mortality, 
the Zombie, in the hopes of breathing new life into this misunderstood figure. 
From a panel discussion in an old TV studio to a quarantined helicopter high above 
California's rolling hills, these life-challenged entities walk, talk, and chew on some of 
the more difficult questions concerning the whole linear birth-death system.

HALFLIFERS
HALFLIFERS is an ongoing collaborative project created by longtime friends
 Torsten Zenas Burns and Anthony Discenza. Burns received his BFA in Media 
Art from New York State College of Art&Design at Alfred University in 1990 and 
an MFA in Performance and Video from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993. 
He currently resides in Brooklyn,NY. Anthony Discenza received a BFA in studio 
art from Wesleyan University in 1990 and an MFA in video from C.C.A.C. in 2000. 
He currently resides in WestOakland, CA. The HALFLIFERS create videotapes and 
installations exploring speculative fictions including (afterlife)relationships, rescue-rituals
splatstick and reimagined vehicle manifestations.
Their installation projects have shown at New Langton Arts [SF], SMART Project Space 
[Netherlands] And most recently showed their new work "Universal Rescue" in the group 
show The Omega Manual at the Smackmellon gallery [NY]. Single-channel works, including 
The Rescue, Action, Island, and Pioneer series have screened at the Museum of Modern Art [NY]
the New York Video Festival, the Whitney Museum of American Art [NY], Pacific Film Archive[ca] 
CinemaTexas [TX], Impakt Festival [Netherlands] EMAF Festival [Germany], Pandaemonium 
Festival [UK],Pleasuredome [Canada],and, most recently, [25hrs] Video Art Foundation, 
Barcelona, [Spain]. 
Contact: 
http://www.vdb.org