Dangerous Delights

Workshop - Dangerous Delights - 10 Nights in Port

During Term 2 Visual Arts students participated in a workshop with Hana Priest of Dangerous Delights, in preparation for Crackle at the Walyalup Fremantle Festival, 10 Nights in Port.

Hana started performing with fire in 2004, after being inspired by the fire artists at Burning Man festival (Nevada, America). Since then, she has performed extensively throughout Western Australia, interstate and overseas.

She originally started her performance career as part of the duo “Fyredanz” and later went solo as “Fire Girl”. Hana started Dangerous Delights in 2012 and is the principal fire artist, troupe manager and booking agent.

Students sketched and developed designs for an artwork in collaboration with Hana, that will be created out of ceramic fiber rope and set alight for the event. It was a fantastic opportunity for students to engage in creative problem solving, working with the limitations of the materials to balance burn time and detail available to the work. Check out the incredible work which is a creative collaboration between the local community, fire artist Hana Priest in collaboration with Elly Sumner, local students and creatives from Blazing Swan in Walyalup Kourt on 12 August.

Hana started performing with fire in 2004, after being inspired by the fire artists at Burning Man festival (Nevada, America). Since then, she has performed extensively throughout Western Australia, interstate and overseas. She originally started her performance career as part of the duo “Fyredanz” and later went solo as “Fire Girl”. Hana started Dangerous Delights in 2012 and is the principal fire artist, troupe manager and booking agent.

Tickets are free RSVP here: https:// www.10nightsinport.com.au/whats-on/ crackle/

“This artwork shares insight into my experience of living with CFS/ME. While my chronic illness is seemingly invisible, I have depicted a sleeping figure to represent the most visible of my symptoms, which is enduring and intense fatigue in response to regular activities. The lone figure depicts the isolation I have experienced as my ability to live a “normal” life has been completely eroded. The carrion birds hidden in darkness symbolise how pushing myself for too long can consume my ability to both physically and neurologically function, much like how scavengers wait patiently for the dead so they can feast.” - Elissa Baker”