Is That All There is to Fire?
A show about boredom.

Over images of waiting, a woman reads:

He wrote: I've been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me. On this trip I've tracked it with the relentlessness of a bounty hunter. At dawn we'll be in Tokyo.

The woman who has received this letter tells us this. She reads us these words as images of men and women linger it that space between departure and arrival on a Ferry in Japan in Chris Marker's Sans Soleil.

Is That All There is to Fire?, which takes it's title from Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, has made a similar search - it has sought out that which constitutes boredom. These, which may not be about boredom at all, come together as components creating an open discourse on the theme. These include: stillness, repetition, emptiness, the potential for possibility, impossibility, insatiability - even the act of making some of these pieces. Boredom can be philosophical. It can be political. It can be a condition and it can be a choice. If anything, as a word, it is vague and open to the articulation of different ideas. In that sense, this show is about that word.