“Fuel Ladder” is a speculative research group composed of Oregon artists and a curator/scholar who will engage practice-based research engaging the climate crisis through the metaphor of wildfire. The hope is to provide a means of thinking through the complexity of the cycles of destruction and renewal that wildfire exemplifies as well as addressing the wider realities of our warming planet
Fuel Ladder presents: Ignition
Friday, November 18, 2022 6:00-8:00 p.m.
510 Oak Street, Main Space Gallery
Eugene, OR 97403
“Ignition” is the inaugural public event of “Fuel Ladder”, a recently established, interdisciplinary collective of artists, designers, and thinkers in Eugene, Oregon, who are exploring the climate crisis through the lens of wildfire. The evening will be less an exhibition than a participatory, conversation-sparking gathering around a set of objects-in-the-making. Please join us in lively exchange! We are curious about the ways that collaboratively-rooted creative works, dialogues, and actions might lead to new understandings of and relationships with wildfire—something increasingly part of everyday life in the Pacific Northwest. We are interested in moving beyond gut reactions and apocalyptic imagery to engage with wildfire in its troubling complexity, open-endedness, visceral and uneven impacts, sensorial dimensions, and (often-heated) political weight.
“Fuel Ladder” is supported by the Ford Family Foundation and the University of Oregon’s Center for Art Research.
More info about the project and participating artists can be found here.