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Bunny Jenny Photographer Jenny Woods
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“I don’t think, I feel”
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I have met Jenny Woods without actually meeting her. That’s the feeling I’m sitting with after only a short email correspondence and a dive into her universe of beautiful images and thoughts. Her work echoes her emotions and reflects the mood and place she’s in at that moment. her images are not only beautiful but sad, ugly, scary and happy at the same time. They are real. Jenny bares herself to me and the world. she’s honest about what she feels and she’s not hiding it. It clearly shows in her images. Text Fadi Morad
“I don’t believe in clothes or tamed hair, I’m a loner who lives in Brooklyn”
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“Sometimes I’m riding the train in the morning and it hits me that, at 22 years old, I’ve done things that most people only dream of and never have the courage to do. Even tho this city is tough and it starts to wear on me, I’m grateful that I made this leap two years ago with two suitcases in hand and some money in my pocket. With no job and a small mattress on the wooden floor of my first apartment. I’ve gone from nothing to everything all on my own, without the help of money from my family, only incredible support. I might struggle every day to find happiness but at least I’m living a life I can call my own.”
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“hands around her ankles, you bite your tongue as you catch a glimpse into the future.
she gobbles up your deceit, as you grasp her backside a little tighter.
hands sweaty and shaking you lie over her body like the dead flowers in the vase on your table.
you don’t love her like you say you do you don’t need her like she wants you to.”
Jenny Woods
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AfrikaBurn It is a sight to behold. Thousands of revelers, gathered in a giant circle around a towering burning artwork. Sparks rise into the star-filled African night sky. Faces glow in the warm orange light, beautiful outfits shimmer and extravagant headdresses catch the eye. You’re surrounded by fabulous beings snuggled in fake fur and ornate jackets of all colours and descriptions. An array of outlandish vehicles stand parked on the periphery… But it’s the energy – the massive sense of community – that strikes you the most. There’s an unspoken consciousness that here in front of the fire you are celebrating something unique and meaningful; as a group of people who understand what it means to give. What it means to play. What it means to express one’s creativity – freely and without fear of judgment. This is AfrikaBurn.
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Where magic happens The event started in 2007 and takes place annually in the Tankwa Karoo in South Africa. In the wide-open space of the semi-desert landscape a world is created by none other than the participants themselves. The event has a unique soul and the ten principles are the lifeblood. These principles are the same as those at Burning Man, of which AfrikaBurn is an official regional event. The guiding tenants are: communal effort, participation, civic responsibility, immediacy, deccommodification, gifting, leaving no trace, radical inclusion, radical self-reliance, radical self-expression. AfrikaBurn added an 11th principle, ‘each one teach one’, to encourage the sharing of knowledge throughout the community, in order to ensure the uptake of culture matches the growth in numbers. America’s Burning Man is where it all started – on San Francisco’s Baker Beach in 1986. Since then the event migrated to the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada and has grown to attract around 70.000 participants a year. AfrikaBurn is a long way from those numbers yet, having grown from a small community of around 1.000 people in its first year to around 10.000 in 2015. This has been a careful, conscious process, with the founders and organisers not wanting the event to grow too quickly or too big, in the interest of maintaining the essence. The size has allowed for the real sense of community to develop and blossom and the ‘Burn community’ in South Africa has flourished. The sheer scale of Burning Man – in terms of its history, the number of people and the scope of resources – makes it different from it’s African relative. But the freedom, the love, the creative expression, the gifting and the play are all very much present at AfrikaBurn. So what do the rather idealistic principles of this event mean? To start with, nothing is for sale at AfrikaBurn (except for ice – necessary for the days spent under the African sun!) Instead you are invited to be radically self-reliant. The Tankwa Karoo is a blank canvas upon which you need to make your home for a week. This means bringing all your own water, food, shelter and whatever else you need to be comfortable. Every attendee is encouraged to be a participant, bringing their gift to share with others. For some this is large-scale artwork and sculptures, for others it is hosting a theme camp – a daytime chill space, a movie theatre, a spectacular dance floor with some of the country’s hottest DJs. For others it may be a performance piece, providing eye-candy in the form of extravagant costumes, sharing
their talents as a fire-dancer, a poet, a stilt-walker. The blank canvas gives participants total permission to explore and experiment – as an individual and as a member of a community. This is a place where no dream is too big or small, no idea impossible, no gift insignificant. And the real magic is that the individuals in this community aren’t just dreamers, they are doers. They are exactly the kind of people who will help you make the wildest, most beautiful concepts come alive. Why do artists go to such effort to create, just for creation’s sake? “Seeing art as a gift is an inspiring way of producing it,” says artist and set builder Daniel Popper. Popper has gifted some of AfrikaBurn’s most memorable artwork over the years. His pieces incorporate different materials and mediums, and he increasingly collaborates with other artists – many met through the Burn – to include music, LED art and projection mapping. Artists like Popper spend months, raising tens and often hundreds of thousands of rands to produce their work; many of which will burn that same year. But Popper says it’s all worth it; “The Burn possesses a certain magic that is very accessible. It becomes a portal to a new world where possibilities seem endless”. Imagine what it is like to make people like that your friends? Imagine the world you could create together. And what if you could build that world outside of AfrikaBurn? This is where the true heart of the Burn lies – in the potential for cataclysmic change. Monique Schiess, one of the co-founders of AfrikaBurn explains; “burns are change-agents that open and reawaken all sorts of things in people that can go dormant in our passively consumptive default world. It wakes up activism, where fun and group projects are the vector that makes that change happen in ourselves, and so, the world.” “AfrikaBurn is not just an art festival. The creative projects and other forms of participation are just the mechanisms through which growth and change and relationships are forged. Some call it ‘burner culture’,” she says. As the AfrikaBurn mission statement says, “It is a chance to invent the world anew”. The experience of the Burn is incredibly empowering and life changing for the individual. New friendships are forged, new possibilities for collaboration in the default world are initiated, one can find fresh inspiration for one’s career, or be motivated to explore new careers entirely. “I found my own validation as an artist through the Burn. It gave me courage and reason to pursue a creative career.
The Burn encourages one to keep dreaming up and manifesting art,” says Popper. He is now in high demand, doing installations at festivals and events around the world. Verity Maud is another artist who’s work is growing at the Burn – she and her team were responsible for the temple ‘Metamorphosis’ at this year’s AfrikaBurn. She explains how the Burn inspires her: “When one is given an open invitation to create whatever you want, with no restrictions, it opens an entire world of possibility. When seeing what incredible pieces others bring to the table, it gives me permission and inspiration to create my own masterpieces. Seeing such works of genius displayed, is both humbling and inspiring. It’s a real catalyst for greatness,” she says. There are groups, such as Maud’s, which have gone on to facilitate transformation in their communities post the Burn. The Metamorphosis crew raised money for and renovated a home for abused women in Johannesburg. This is what it’s all about. “The event is a gateway into open source engagement and activism… the more you empower people, the more stuff happens without needing intervention. We’ve seen groups who’ve worked together in the desert who are now organising all sorts of things in their hometowns that are idealistic and about creating change for the better. So it feels like AfrikaBurn is doing its’ work in the world,” says Schiess. …As the San Clan effigy – the main Burn sculpture – collapses, the crowd cheers, the warmth of the structure in full flame almost more than those at the front can bear. When the marshals allow, people surge forward to stand by the glowing embers. Some take off their clothes and dance, shadows flickering on free, naked flesh. Others chat animatedly about the Burn, or stand quietly, with arms around each other, soaking it all in. After this it’s time to walk out into the centre around which all the camps and camping are set up – known as the ‘Binnekring’. The horseshoe shaped edge is lit up like a psychedelic Christmas tree and the sweet sounds of the various dance floors waft over to you. You join the crowds on foot and bicycle heading off across the plain to wherever your heart desires. As the embers of the burnt artworks fade, it is the sparks of consciousness inside each individual that grow brighter. These sparks can become flames, igniting a new world of possibilities wherever a Burner goes. And that is the power of this event, and the people it brings together. Photographer Jan Verboom, Text Lauren Clifford-Holmes
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AFRIKABURN > A Burning Man regional event, established in 2007 > Takes place annually in the Tankwa Karoo, close
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border of the Northern Cape in South Africa > Participant-driven event where people create art, theme
camps, mutant art vehicles, wear fabulous costumes, perform and much more > Drew around 1.000 people in its first year. > 10.000 people attended in 2015
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