Can I Curate Flux and Fire for an Event?

Absolutely!  The cost of curating Flux and Fire for an event is dependent on the diameter footprint size you want, temperature (summer or winter), how long you wish to run and how high you would like the flames.  Transportation, inspection, fuel and team operating costs will also affect the cost of curation.

Experience the Fire

Imagine during the evening a lone wanderer catches a glimpse of dancing flames. Because of our humanity, the wanderer is drawn to the flames; for to be around fire is to be connected to an intimate place where humans have always gathered.

What could these flames be…a bonfire, a burning sculpture, a random act of vandalism?

Instead they discover another wanderer dancing on a platform within a ring of fire - but not just any fire. This fire is brought to life by the dancer. It responds to their moves!

The dancer stops, the flames subside, light extinguishes and a space is left dark and cold beckoning our wanderer to explore the blue circle glowing on the raised platform floor.

They step up, glance at the cool blue lights surrounding them and give the “OK” sign to the Fire and Flux curators. The lights change to red and new Nuit Blanche wanderers come to watch.

As our wanderer explores the six foot diameter platform a flash of flames appears in the outer circle several feet away. The wanderer reaches out with another hand and a larger flash of flames rises on the opposite side of the circle.

Our wanderer quickly learns that it is their own movements over the red platform lights that create these series of flames. They control the hidden mechanisms, choreographing fire through motion; learning the secret of varying heights, and creating complex and beautiful patterns with the outer ring of flames. 

The patterns of flames and opposing moments of darkness are always in flux, ever transforming the shadows on the faces of other onlookers surrounding the ring - drawn to the dancing flames.

Through the Fire and Flux spontaneous and intuitive concentric ring of fire,  participants explore the mark-making potential of light in the darkness. The balance of movement, rhythm and inactivity captures the idea that art can be made anywhere, be temporary and articulated in flames.