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| Registered Art Installations 2009 |
| Name |
Description |
| THE MAN |
The largest and most central burnable
art structure at Kiwiburn is The Man, a 4 meter high
wooden effigy which will be burned on the Sunday night
after the Temple burn. "The Man" is the core
of the Burning Man festival, which itself has roots
in an ancient pagan ritual, 1000's of years old. Read
more about the history of the early years of Burning
Man here. Kiwiburn as New Zealand's Burning Man Regional
aims to inspire a similar bringing together of the community
as in the early days of Burning Man: "Today
a colony and soon, an international community of like-minded
friends — all drawn by this towering effigy —
a gateway to a primal ecstasy of communion, celebration
and consummation." |
| THE TEMPLE |
The Temple is a Burning Man tradition.
Each year, a non-denominational temple is built where
anybody can go to meditate, pray, perform ritual or
just contemplate quietly. Many people choose to write
messages to loved ones, or notes of things they would
like to let go from their past, or simply thoughts they
would like to put out to the universe and leave them
in the temple.
As the festival progresses and more people leave their
messages of hope, loss and life, an energy builds up
in the Temple, culminating in the burning on the last
night, a giant cathartic release of emotion.
The Temple will burn on Saturday night after The Man. |
| THE HICKORY DICKORY DOCK
STOP |
We would like to create an installation
of hanging art work from a large tree. With all types
of paintings, sculptures and lantins hanging in a variety
of ways! Under the tree will be paper and materials
for people to come and make their own art, which we
can then display and run a gallery off the tree- so
attach poles and washing lines around the tree, where
people can then come rest and draw in the shade and
make the gallery grow throughout the festival. Also
we will have a decorating cart- with face paints, feathers
and flowers, along with being in fancy dress ourselves!
We plan to decorate the masses and create an interactive
art gallery- where anyone can come and contribute their
pieces! |
| THE DODGY ROGER |
Large raft in the shape of a pirate
ship to be on the lake during the day and beached and
secured at night. The Dodgy Roger is Kiwiburn's (and
possibly the whole burner world's - since I think we
have the only (full) lake) - first floating Art Boat.
Pirates will be able to ride the ship, buckling swashes
and swashing buckles as the feeling takes them. There
may be a pirate party... Arrrr! |
| Dance Dance Decoration |
In the spirit of Burning Man's
Dance Dance Immolation, Dance Dance Decoration is a
dancing game (like the popular Dance Dance Revolution).The
difference is that failing dancers will be sprayed with
paint in an artistic fashion. Well sprayed with paint,
anyway. |
| Journey Past The Centre
Of The Earth |
Nowhere, Europe's regional burn,
is close to being the antipode of Kiwiburn. Which means
that by tunnelling in a fairly straight line past the
earths core, a suitable borer will arrive at Nowhere.We
plan to build such a machine using tried and tested
techniques. It will be set up at Kiwiburn and after
the festival will carry the intrepid crew (and a collection
of Kiwiana and photographs of here) to Spain, taking
around 5 months to make the trip. Also, it will arrive
upside down. |
| CUBIT - BOX OF MYSTERY |
The cube of mystery may or may
not make its way around. Something may or may not make
it's way out of the cube to you. You may or may not
like it. |
| THE FUTURE TREE OF DREAMS |
Come create your very own Dream
flag to hang in the Future Tree! Magic must happen!
Thinking about your dreams and wishes, finding materials
that can represent them, then binding them into art
and letting them go in the wind, is parallel to how
we need to treat our dreams in everyday life. Come sit
under the chilled space of a leafy tree, where there
will be baskets of fabrics and material bits 'n' bobs
for you to piece together representations of past and
present dreams for your future, or if you want, just
come create some whacky flag. All contributions of fabric,
buttons, badges, baubles, threads etc etc most welcome
:) Child friendly if child comes with caregiver. ;-) |
| THE PORTABLE MERKABA |
Sacred geometry orgone accumulator/generator.
The Merkaba, centrepiece of last year's kiwiburn temple,
rises from the ashes in a new incarnation. The now portable
form will travel to multiple festivals.The Merkaba combines
a structure of sacred geometry, an energy skeleton of
Reichian Orgone accumulator material, and a powered
orgone generator using more modern techniques developed
by the cloudbusting underground.It is both a place of
quiet contemplation and an active experiment in subtle
energies. Experience for yourself whether it feels different
inside, and in what peculiar ways, and record your impressions
in the logbook to share your thoughts with others. |
| ANDNA |
The art structure will be called
"ANDNA", which is simply (and boringly) DNA written
backwards and forwards. It will have the form of a DNA
helical molecule, with at least 8 simple bamboo burningman
figures (the atoms) positioned up the structure in such
a way as to define the helical structure. For the lower
figures, each man's face will have some unique characteristics
that will represent some significant event in past kiwiburn
history (the lower figures), while the upper figures
will have faces that represent likely/possible/highly
speculative events in future kiwiburn history. As for
my previous kiwiburn art efforts I am choosing to convey
the big picture of kiwiburn in a way that links everything
in kiwiburn history together, and then tie that into
the overall theme of the event. In other words where
kiwiburn has come from, where it is now, and where it
is going, and all in the context of one continuum with
a unique evolutionary signature or imprint. |
| THE
ONE |
Behold the illuminating light of the one. This
is a night-time installation |
| THE
LIQUID FOREST |
Outer light inspires inner light. |
| THE
AVENUE |
By making clear how the Man should be approached, the
Avenue delineates a sacred space. The Avenue delineates
the approach to the Man and, in a site-specific manner,
reflects the tensions inherent in the Whakamaru landscape
as a source of power for those disconnected from the
landscape. Or something like that. |
| OBSOLETELY
FABULOUS |
The future is now history. Obsoletely Fabulous is made
of used CDs strung together to create a curtain. When
hung from the tree, the wind will move it and create gentle
'plastic' music. Lit at night, the refracting light will
create beautiful patterns. people can walk thru the lower
parts and make their own 'music'.
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| YOUR
ART HERE! |
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Art
Installation Registration Form:
(questions marked with a *star are optional)
To see former art installation archive:
Installation Register
2008 |
