Test Bed for Fire Trees
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="15px"][vc_column_text]The burning of any Match Tree, which takes hundreds of hours to make, is not done lightly. It is a gamble that aims, through destruction, to create new and more versatile artworks. Test Bed aimed to lay bare this gamble and the artistic process through a three-stage exhibition/ event at the Union Gallery Project Room, Kingston, Ontario. Stage 1: 23rd March - 10th April 2010: Union Gallery Project Room, Kingston, Ontario. [gallery columns="6" ids="794,808,797,795,793,819"] I presented a number of artworks and documents in the Project space to give a context to what I was making in the gallery. I wanted the audience ask: What in the exhibition is art and what is document? What has value and what does not? Within these object an endurance performance took place between the…