The project has several objectives: working with aesthetic consequences in an emotionally challenging set-up; connecting the local and site-specific with wider discussions about the impact of the Anthropocene in an international perspective, and presenting an extended concept of sculpture within the context of the Sculpture by the Sea festival.

An area extending for some 200 m2 along the beach at Marselisborg Strand suddenly appears scorched, sooty and destroyed. The adjacent forest shows clear signs of fire damage, and the area appears to have been ravaged by a conflagration. Is this an act of vandalism? An accident? A work of art?

For the 2015 Sculpture by the Sea festival in Aarhus, I and Bjorn Godwin (Australia) set fire to part of the beach at Marselisborg as our contribution to the sculpture festival. The project served several objectives: working with aesthetic consequences in an emotionally challenging set-up; connecting the local and site-specific with wider discussions about the impact of the Anthropocene in an international perspective, and presenting an extended concept of sculpture that, within its specific context, contributed to greater general understand of the phenomenon of sculpture.

Partners: Bjorn Godwin, Hede DK, the City of Aarhus.

Medium: Approx. 200 m2 of rugosa rose shrubs, Hede Danmark