Fire burns and fire destroys, but as the Western myth of Prometheus goes, fire is one of civilization’s most fundamental building blocks. This dynamic still holds true today. The burning of fossil fuels provides the majority of the energy needed to fuel our civilization, but in what seems to be a direct corollary, the more we burn, the more we get burned. Scientists agree that burning fossil fuels at contemporary rates is the leading cause of climate change, which itself is the leading cause of the sizable increase in the number of wildfires occurring each year. Our triumphs dance with our destructions, and never have the two been sunk deeper inside each other.
Fire Will Be Here provides an experiential glimpse into what it would feel like to have the destructiveness of fire wrought upon you.
Fire Will Be Here is a site specific video installation of variable dimension. It runs for 2 minutes on loop and was presented for the first time at the LUMEN Festival on June 28, 2014. It measures 17' x 15'.
Fire Will Be Here was a fiscally sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts.
