Common Collective - Controlled Burn

May 10 - August 2, 2025 

Reid Gallery

Controlled Burn

Common Collective

  

Common Collective is a group of artists who design and build multi-sensory environments using video, sounds, and sculptural elements. They document transformations in the physical environment, exploring rural landscapes and post-industrial spaces. Controlled Burn is a site-adaptive video and sound installation that documents a barn burning that took place in the small town of Listowel, Ontario in 2018. A blank model of the barn suspended from the ceiling of the gallery serves as a 3-dimensional screen for video documentation of the fire. Behind the barn, a large single-channel video is projected onto and through a netted screen, filling the entire Reid Gallery with the video. Using video and sound from the day, Common Collective has created an immersive space that documents a specific event but touches on larger agricultural and resource discussions of the changing rural landscape.