In the unique live performance is a performance accompanied by projections, sound, and live-narration. How To Build a Fire, Visual Arts MFA alum Kerri Flannigan explores connections to nature, changing climates and wildfire through the relationship with their father, Mike. As an adult, Kerri realizes that although their father is a fire expert, they don’t actually know that much about fire and they begin recording conversations with their dad.
This performance will feature excerpts of these interviews and conversations which eventually start to bring in additional fire experts as well as touching on memories of growing up on a fire research station, legacy of fire suppression and fire as “enemy” ushered in with settler-colonialism, shifting cultural views around wildfire, the state of the forest, and more. How To Build A Fire asks questions about what kind of relationships we should have with each other, with fire and with the land around us.
Runs 7:30-9pm Sat-Sun August 3 & 4 at Intrepid Studio, 1609 Blanshard. Tickets $5–$25 (sliding scale)
Co-presented by UVic’s Legacy Art Galleries and Impulse Theatre.
