Afrika Burn
In the Tanqua Karoo on a farm called Stonehenge is the site of an epic event - Afrika Burn! Every year thousands of people gather to express themselves at this sacred site. At the heart of the site is the Playa (spanish - the beach) where the artworks and outdoor performances take place. Around the circumference of the Playa is the Binnekring (Afrikaans for inner-ring). Attached to the Binnekring are various Theme Camps that merge with ordinary camping areas surrounding the Playa in the Buitekring (outer-ring). Streets branch off from the Binnekring, with the 'spokes' named according to a clock (1'ish through to 12'ish) and the cross-streets taking on different names each year. Around this core various peripheral extensions and areas have formed based on a growing demand.
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Afrika Burn 2008 - Theme: Power
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Ballooning in the Wind
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A flower like assortment of balloons blooming and blowing in the wind.
Bulbinella
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Bulbine (q.v.); Gk. -ellus, -ella = diminutive.
Burning Mail 2008
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Every year a different incarnation, but always the same fine service you can sometimes rely on! With the catch-line "we'll deliver your mail ANYWHERE!", what they may be better at is delivering your male somewhere and abducting you for their own nefarious postzmanly duties. Knock, knock, who's there?! So get right down and lick a postman's stamp and he'll have your loveletter delivered, whether within the burn or into the unreal world.
Dreamcatcher, The
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An olde school combi converted by Jay and Lotto using Jay's renowned tree-house building technique. Jump aboard and lie in one of the bespoke nets, or ride one of the outboard net-chairs. Once you're in the web, it's not easy to get out of!
Drum Session at Sunset
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Frenetic beats pulverized the air around the gathered people. The capable ringleader draws his hands apart and as one the silence rings out deafening even the dying vibrations of the drums. A chorus of whooping and cheering send shivers down the collective spine as the pied piper of the burn leads the entourage on through the desert across the stone smattered playa.
Great Aunt Euphorbias Tearoom
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A tearoom stall and theme camp at Afrika Burn 2008.
Hamster Wheel
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Is it artwork? Is it a mutant vehicle? It's certainly big enough to be a mutant, so perhaps a muntant artwork? Whatevs, it's a giant hamster wheel. You stand inside it and it rolls around. Lekker. A few more of you get in. Yaaa. Even more lekker!
Heart-Phoenix
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The 2008 Burn character of Justin Friedman - creator of FLOW (For Love of Water) campaign and director of Greenhouse Creatives.
Lofty ambitions
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The long black plastic bag-creature sucked in cool vapours. Basking in the sun it inflated and slowly, gradually starting rising from the desert floor. Hovering on a tendril anchored to a human, it languidly flexed its etiolated body cavity.
Love Puppets by Daniel Popper
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Created by installation artist extraordinaire Daniel Popper, these were amongst the first of his Afrika Burn creations. The first year (2007) featured just one, the second year brought a partner. Strapped to a backpack rig they were carried by one person but could be handled by many to produce wondrous flexible effects.
Oxalis
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From the Greek oxys = sharp, sour or acid and (h)als = salt. The plant is frequently consumed for its sour taste caused by the oxalic acid, particularly the flowering stalks of O. pes-caprae. In large quantities the oxalic acid inhibits digestion and in stock leads to the condition 'dikpens' or bloated belly.
Stony
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A red car with a red head and blue eyes! Stony ruled the desert space with his stony name and blue-eyed stony glare!