A Personal History of Pyromania

In this intimate, darkly comic essay-performance, writer Brendan Mac Evilly reflects on the meanings and functions of fire in life and art. Moving between childhood experiments with homemade fireworks, family and national history and his novel Deep Burn, Mac Evilly traces his lifelong fascination with flame, asking why we’re drawn to fire and what it can transform. Combining live reading, ceramics, projected media and sound, A Personal History of Pyromania considers fire as a force of attraction, creation, remembrance and release.