Burns's work includes: performance art, locative media, audio, video, photography, sculpture, and installation.
Her practice engages in site-specific responses to locations through a reinterpretation of local mythologies, histories, and the eccentricities of people who inhabit those places.
Her work melds fact and fiction through alternative constructions of place and event, indirectly commenting on the authority associated with the dissemination of information.
Her work has been presented internationally in Reykjavík, Amsterdam, Belfast, New York City, and Los Angeles; and across Canada from Dawson to St. John's.
Burns continues to undertake freelance writing and curatorial projects, as well as mentorship and visiting teaching roles for various organizations and institutions.