non_DU

A Temporary Space Making Intervention for Afrikaburn 2018

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Come have a good time and whilst doing so enable us to make a sensational Structure at Afrika Burn! BYOB bring everyone you know! (at Melville, Gauteng, South Africa)

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Perspective Render Sundown On Playa - Exited To Share this with 2018 Burners! Please contact us via email of you want to contribute in your own way! #afrikaburn #afrikaburn2018 #nondu2018 #tankwa #southafrica #desert #art #installation #burningman #tankwatown #sundown #burningart (at Johannesburg, Gauteng)

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What is non_DU

Non-Du – The Light Bridge

The Lightbridge is an experiential space that explores the threshold between the idealised state and what sometimes comes across as mundane reality. Just like a bridge that crosses a river so does the Lightbridge represent a pathway to a new reality. It’s a “bridge” on playa that transcends the traditional notion of change as radical departure into a new and very different reality. It rather shows change as that same reality, viewed through a new lens with a different attitude. This means we don’t have to cross 7 bridges to come to terms with existence, but rather just one, inside all of us - a bridge that is always there.

This is generated by the team’s realisation that Afrikaburn is a reality and experience right in the middle of the everyday experience. The difference lies in how we conceptualise this and how we transcend it. As a concept we want to embody this idea which stems from the concept of Non- duality as inherent in our love for the burn. Non-duality is the concept that nothing is ever separatethat everything is one. We want to reinforce togetherness in a time of separation and difference.

We also want to address bringing the burn with you into everyday life in this act. We want to encourage the embodiment of the principals of the burn implicitly rather than explicitly in each person crossing through the installation.

We use modest materials and simple structure to create novelty inside an existing trope. A slender and dynamic timber frame hugs a soft, undulating and sensual internal canvas like the many tents at the Burn, sheltering all of us from the harsh but enormously beautiful Karoo. The soft internal space represents and embodies rebirth and embrace. An organic experience formed through the protective envelope. Weather, dust and entropy are embraced as natural constituents of our experience of form; the installation will absorb the environment, just like the burners after the first good dust storm or even rain.

The two beginnings (not ends, our glass is always half full) in the artwork frame the experience of our celestial guide, our harsh but life giving sun, to its cyclical destiny in the east and west. By neither defining a beginning or end in the built project we reinforce the infinite in the finite, we open up for collective interpretation. Sunset and Sunrise are defining events, particularly during the burn, that in their cosmic dimension are never divided into day and night but nevertheless in its arising duality giving rhythm to our lives. We love the rhythm of playa; we love how close we come to our natural rhythms here. We are awash in our own rhythm here, we feel the burn as music, and we feel music is life.

We love the playa at night. It’s a place where miracles happen and where Alice can follow the rabbit down into the unknown. The light bridge will take part in this ritual. We see the installation as a backdrop for the activities around it, but also a hole to scamper into. It’s a way of expressing silhouette and movement through its skin, just like we all do with our skin and garb, as a light beacon, a glow-worm wriggling in the night wind reminding us to wriggle in our incarnation and embrace life as play.

Love

non_DU Crew