THE QUASI COMPANY
BY LIRON & SHOOTZ

Midburn is the official regional event of the Israeli Burning Man community. For 5 days, a temporary city is established in the Negev desert, creating a platform which allows a communal life style of creativity, art and radical self-expression.  The Effigy plays an integral role at Burning Man and now at Midburn,  erected in the heart of the city.On the third day of the festival, all the citizens of the city meet around this installation for the fire ceremony, when the Effigy is set ablaze - an emotional and intense moment for all Midburn participants.

                                                                                                                           

At Midburn, the Effigy is mean to be an installation that  represents the formation of the city and the annual Midburn theme. We see the essence of this genesis  as people coming together to create a new reality: a momentary, temporary, free, reality. And with Abracadabra as the Midburn 2017 theme, this appeared to us a form of magic. 

 

Abra&Cadabra were born out of magic: the magic of the meeting and interaction among people, of mutual fertilisation and social inspiration, alongside the precision of shape, structure and the energy that emerges from this encounter.

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Built of "timber-webs", gentle yet precise, Abra&Cadabra meet to create the Zygote: Creating Life and Reality. Their creation is assembled from the same timber-webs from which they, themselves, are made of. Out of the ideas, the thoughts and the feelings, life is born, and endless possibilities arise.

The Effigy exhibits the process of creation as a mutual dialectic process: consent versus conflict, attraction as opposed to rejection, love and the loneliness within it. Encounters of individuals create a communal effort, filling in the spaces between them with a new reality that shines upon them, and illuminating them with a new light.