Confluence Lab
Sightlines "Just Futures"
Sightlines returns to one of Fuel Loading’s central insights: that fuels build up “not just via ecological accumulation, but also via...
top of page
Search
Confluence Lab
Sightlines "When the Smoke Clears"
Sightlines challenges artists to envision what happens when the smoke clears and we are confronted with fire’s impacts on human bodies,...
Confluence Lab
Sightlines "The Future is Patchy"
Sightlines, the third and final exhibition in our Stories of Fire series, builds on the themes of Ground Truths and Fuel Loadings, adding...
Confluence Lab
Fuel Loading "Feeling Fuel"
above: works by Fuel Loading artstis Suze Woolf & Kelsey Grafton As the introductory statement of the Fuel Loading exhibit makes clear,...
Confluence Lab
Loads and Ladders
Reckoning with landscape fire means reckoning with cultural fuels as well as ecological ones...
Confluence Lab
Fuel Loading: "The Build Up, the Burn, and the Burn Out"
Eric Onida’s Nearer My God to Thee depicts a marching band on fire, or perhaps a marching band emerging from fire; the bright reds of the...
Confluence Lab
Ground Truths: "The Wound is an Opening"
When I look at Enid Smith-Becker’s Witness, I initially see a scene of devastation. Columns of red interrupt an otherwise peaceful scene...
Confluence Lab
Ground Truths: "Boots on the Ground"
Boots on the ground: in many ways this is a clichéd phrase that, with its evocation of military action, brings to mind images of war,...
Confluence Lab
Ground Truths: "Ubiquitous Fire"
A key theme of the art that features in the Online Exhibition Ground Truths collection is the ubiquity of fire. To live in the Pacific...
bottom of page