LIKELIKE kicks off the 2025 season with Nick Crockett’s video installation Fire Underground.
Fire Underground is an animation which presents a fantasy loosely based on the events of the West Virginia Mine Wars, the Homestead Steel Strike, and other labor conflicts in US history. While a labor conflict escalates into a war, the dead and dying find themselves in a prehistoric carboniferous swamp deep below ground, where strange creatures are stirring in the dark. The story is framed by scenes from a surreal “museum at the end of history” where heroes from America’s past are immortalized forever as animatronic statues and looping dioramas, alongside prehistoric creatures, war machines, and other historical artifacts.
The piece was made with the game engine Unity. Most of the props and characters were made out of physical materials like clay and tinfoil, and captured with photogrammetry.
Friday April 4
7-11PM
During the Unblurred gallery crawl
205 North Evaline St
Pittsburgh, PA