Fireworks
October 30, 2005
Performance Art
About the Program
For LIVE 2005, Martin Beauregard produced his performance Fireworks, using a slide projector and live sound effects. Beauregard's simulations fall flat, never reaching the needed climax in their fulfillment of his intention to wipe out wonder and make a big deal out of nothing. Martin Beauregard's performances flirt with disaster, reckless interventions, scenery that falls apart, half-finished machinery that explodes. His pieces are conceived in a universe where natural laws of physics don't apply. When these ideas come into contact with the physical properties of the real world, chaos ensues. It is in this ensuring chaos that his work emerges. Failure looms large; success is not an option.Artist
Martin BeauregardCoordinator
Daina WarrenIdentifier
2005.1030 FIRPart of the series
LIVE Biennial of Performance Art 2005Collection
grunt gallery Programming ArchiveLocation
grunt gallery (second location)116-350 E. 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 4R8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
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