Fire Portal

Fire Portal
Installation and Performance comes to Phily Fringe and Cannonball Festival
Fire Portal is a multi-media installation and performance that uses fire both as a destructive
symbol and as a means of manifestation. Through dynamic performance, imagery, sound,
movement and of course projected flame, Red Rae grapples with the idea of burning down our
current systems of power to collectively imagine what might rise out of the ashes. There are so
many systems of power; late stage corporate capitalism, transphobia, white supremacy and
patriarchy to name a few, that many people would like to see destroyed. Fire Portal will draw on
extensive research into fire as a tool of both resistance and regeneration to create an audience
experience that feels both like being torn to pieces and built back up again.
Life evolved hand in hand with fire, holding that knowledge helps us to re-contextualize our
relationship with destruction. The fire portal opens in the space as well as into Red’s body,
peeling back their skin to unveil fiery dreamscapes, revealing that we all contain that which is
necessary for our evolution and destruction.
This show is recommended for audience members ages 18+ as it contains nudity and sexual
content.
Created by Red Rae
learn more about their work at https://raered.com/