Hyperborea is a Burning Man Regional event for Central Canada which I helped produce, facilitate and participate in from 2017-2020. I wore multiple hats as a Fire Safety co-lead, board director, community conduct & consent co-chair, art grant artist and theme camp lead at overlapping times

All photos generously provided by Painted Negative and Fee Gunn

Sk8 Camp // Hyperborea 2019 // Photo Credit Painted Negative
Day time at Hyperborea 2018 // Photo Credit Painted Negative
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Beard Contest // By IT2SP // Hyperborea 2018 // Photo Credit Painted Negative
POPEPOPO // By Les Mains Dans Le Feu // Hyperborea 2018 // Photo Credit Painted Negative
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Sanctioned by the Burning Man Organization in Nevada, Burning Man Regional events take place all over the world, all year round. They can be a facinating way to experience the local art culture and the secret crowds that gather within them. By leveraging the same principles and rituals as Burning Man, these events provide new dimensions on which to experience regional micocosms as temporary experiential art landscapes.

art & culture

Hyperborea is perhaps best known for it's volatile Canadian weather in mid-may and highly technical art & engineering achievements in the forms of sculpture, circus, sound, art cars, fire artists, fire performers, theme camps, and highly tragic human centered dramas. 

theme camps

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fire performers

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fire art

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art cars

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sound

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circus

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sculpture

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Aeolian Resonator ArcShadow // By Shan Honoridez // Hyperborea 2019 // Photo Credit Painted Negative
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effigy & temple burn

Hyperborea's effigies and temples have historically been built, designed and concepted by groups of artists from the surrounding Greater Toronto Area and Montreal communities. My co-lead Trevyn Watson and I managed all pre-event burn planning, fire safety standards, and onsite management of burns, burn practices, fire art and FAST volunteers.

Fire Art Safety Team co-leads 2017-2019

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2018 effigy

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Le Soleil De Minuit // By Les Mains Dans Le Feu // Hyperborea 2018 // Photo Credit Painted Negative
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2018 temple

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The Temple // By Site 3 Wood Working Guild // Hyperborea 2018 // Photo Credit Painted Negative
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2019 effigy

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2019 temple

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