Re election Day [Fire]

One day exhibition/event, Second Space Projects
Two-channel video installation, 3.16 mins and cardboard voting booths, charcoal, 5m x 5m x 4m, 2020.
Videography and photos by Lucy Foster.

I want to acknowledge and pay my respects to the Traditional Owners of Gunaikurnai Land, where this video was taken (state forest near Bruthen).

Examining our fragility, personal agency and responsibility, Re election Day [Fire] is an attempt to poetically re-stage the election day as a day of judgement and reckoning.

For the two-channel video, I have placed the original cardboard voting booths amongst the burned-out forest in the aftermath of the New Year Fires. A participant in the waiting game, the viewer is invited to observe the booths fall one by one, as if wounded, in this ghostly forest swept by the wind. 

The installation component presents the same booths which have undergone metamorphosis into the charcoaled towering forest, creating a visceral landscape to walk through and experience.

Incinerator Art Award artist talks in an online symposium with curator Jake Treacy: