Fire Will Be Here is a site specific video installation that aims to provide the conceptual and experiential framework within which to engage the beauty and destructive nature of fire.
Fire burns and fire destroys, but as the Western myth of Prometheus goes, fire has also been the most significant enabling condition of human civilization. This dynamic still holds true today. The burning of fossil fuels provides the clear 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. Most scientists agree that the burning of 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.
This installation was shown as part of the 2014 LUMEN festival on Staten Island. For more info visit:
ericcorriel.com/art/Fire-Will-Be-Here
lumenfest.org