Flashover

Flashover is a monumental, immersive media artwork about bushfire. It reimagines a devastating moment of terror and beauty from the Black Summer fires. Pieced together from the memories of volunteer firefighters, Flashover contemplates the cycle of bushfires fuelled by the climate emergency and our collective inability to break society’s disastrous habitual loops. It evokes fires past, present and the inferno to come if we refuse to act.

Created by leading artist-researchers from the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, distinguished guest artists, and volunteer firefighters, Flashover combines cutting-edge photography, animation and immersive sound techniques to contemplate bush fires at a stunning level of intimate beauty and awe.