Art & Artists

Art is self-expression, so everyone is an artist in some form. InterFuse gives artists the unique opportunity to display art that is too large, too strange, too abstract or thought provoking to display at many other venues. InterFuse is also a perfect occasion to debut art that isn’t well known or is deeply personal. Midwest Burners encourages people to share their art, especially interactive art, with everyone at InterFuse.

A Personal Note From Tangle:

Art comes in many forms! It is not limited to stuff we see in museums. It could be self expression of performance, decorating a mundane carport to resemble a fishing boat, a snazzy costume you strut your stuff in, a choreographed or spontaneous dance, a 'create-it' workshop, setting up an interactive music maker or creating a beautiful meditation space, to throw out a few possibilities.

Burn events also have a plethora of temporal art, such as the grooving music being pumped from the speakers that you may never hear again, and the fantastic burnable art.

Tangle

Neither Midwest Burners nor Ozark Avalon can be held responsible for damaged art. While everyone looks out for one another, artists are ultimately responsible for the safety of their art at InterFuse. As an artist, you should consider lighting your art so that people don't stumble over it in the dark, damaging themselves and your work.

The Art List (Registered Art)

Listed in order of registration date.Get your art listed (registered) using the form at bottom.

Art Title Location Description

Ashtray Art Event

Earth Guardians camp

Artist: Brandon
Bring your artfully (or artlessly) built or decorated container for cigarette butts to InterFuse so you can participate in our exhibition of smokey talent. Bring your contraption to the Earth Guardian's tent so we can photograph it (or capture one of us and take us to your ashtray installation) and explain the best angle and lighting for appreciating your incredible talent/artistry in coming up with a way to do something with those marvelously nasty things left over after a smoke.

Prizes will be awarded for as many different categories as seem reasonable to the judges.

Singing Cow Cow

Singing Cow Camp (at Moon Hollow)

Artist: Thomas Cobian, The Neon Warrior
Neon art.

Kozmik Gellyphish

The MindLicker

Artists: Janelle and Dan
Fun, floaty, ultra colorful, and ready to play, these psychedelic Gellyphish will keep you mesmerized and in the flow! Dance among them, through them, with them; we promise, they won't sting, they swing!

The BEST damn
L(i)tehaus at InterFuse

L(i)tehaus Illumi-Naughti camp

Artists: L(i)tehaus Illumi-Naughti camp
Our band of misfits have risen above the depths of the watery underworld to provide illumination and enlightenment on shore. A Burner beacon in the night, to help you charter your course back home after a long evening of revelry. Why did we do this? Because we can, and, because this gives us a best vantage point for keeping an eye on everything, including you. Yeah, we've definitely got our eyes on you.

Your Art Listed Here

Musical Artists at The MindLicker
  • Sonic sonar sound guides for your deep sea journeys and aquatic audial bliss. Detailed lineup and timeslots will be posted at The MindLicker! DANCE HARD!!!!!

    MindLicker DJ's
    ABRAHM
    AIRYCK
    AKTIF
    ALIEN AUDIENCE
    CLANDESTINE
    CRAVE
    DJ DMT
    DOOHICKEY
    EVOLVE
    FATTY ACID
    GAIA
    MAD CATT
    MOLDY DIMENSIONAL PORTAL
    MOR
    PARADIGM
    PHAEDRUS
    PSYINTIST
    SEIPHERDJ
    SIRKIT
    SPIFF
    VAXINATION
    ZAC SLADE

Read more about The MindLicker on the Theme Camps page.

Musical Artists at Camp Bottoms Up
  • Camp Bottoms up is back!!!!

    Are you ready to dance-drink-and dance some more, well your in the right place. Stop by have a drink and check out the world famous sparkle bar voted best bar at Interfuse 08.

    At Camp Bottoms Up, "Partying is our art."

    Friday
    Nasty Nate // St Louis
    Koneka // Wichita
    Mark Jones // KC
    J Fortune // KC
    Dervishe // St Louis
    DJ HAX // Chicago
    NJN Trubl // Wichita

    Saturday
    Johnny C// KC
    MACE // San Francisco
    Radiohiro // Chicago
    Ding Dong // San Francisco
    Tom Foolerie // Midwest
    Andy B // St Louis

    At Camp Bottoms Up, "If your not dancing, Fuck You!"

Read more about Camp Bottoms Up on the Theme Camps page.

Musical Artists at 20,000 Ravers Under the Sea
  • Details will be available on-site.

Read more about 20,000 Ravers Under the Sea on the Theme Camps page.

Musical Artists at Portal
  • Portal will feature three talented DJs specializing in spinning vinyl. Currently rain is focusing on retro dance music and will be spinning for an hour or two when the sun is high in the sky, while Michael has been concentrating on trance and Sumo has been building his repertoire of drum and bass. Sumo and Michael will keep you dancing all night long. The Portal team has a huge selection of music and may bring out surprises at various times throughout the day, but once the sun goes down they'll bring out all the stops and keep the party going deep into the night.

Read more about Portal on the Theme Camps page.

Art Installations

InterFuse is the place for art installations! The art does not have to relate to the Aquatic Inferno theme, but it's fun if it does. Art may be installed anywhere at InterFuse except near the fire rings in Moon Meadow and Maypole Hill, and other areas marked off as reserved.

If your art requires altering the landscape (ex. digging large holes) you must contact the InterFuse Event Planners no later than two weeks before the event.

Neither Midwest Burners nor Ozark Avalon can be held responsible for damaged art. While everyone looks out for one another, artists are ultimately responsible for the safety of their art at InterFuse.

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Art Placement

There are only two types of Art installations that need to be registered for placement by InterFuse event planners:

1.) Fire Art installations
2.) Permanent and semi-permanent Art installations that will alter the landscape (ex. digging large holes).

If your art installation does not fall into either category, you may register anyway to have your art installation listed in the front gate handout. Seeing your art listed inspires other people to participate. Artists who register their non-fire, non-permanent art installations will still be free to pick their installation location upon arrival at InterFuse.

Fire Art must be registered no later than two weeks before InterFuse. Event planners will coordinate with the artists to ensure maximum safety while their Fire Art installations are lit. Coordinating with Event planners will make your art burn happen much smoother, as InterRangers and Arsonists will be on hand to help maintain a burn perimeter and keep an eye out for stray sparks.

If your art requires altering the landscape (ex. digging large holes) you must contact the InterFuse Event Planners no later than two weeks before the event.

All other artists who want their installations listed in the Front Gate handout must register no later than two weeks before the event.

InterFuse event planners have final say over installation placement and there is no guarantee that you will get to install art in your preferred location. InterFuse event planners will also be placing Theme Camps with large PA systems. Likewise, event planners will reserve certain areas for infrastructure installations such as the Main Effigy work area, the gate, the radio tower, parking lots, toilets, first aid/InterRanger station, etc.

It’s tough to balance everyone’s needs during placement so please bear with us and be cool about the process. It may feel annoying to have to find a place for your art installation AFTER sound camps, fire art installations, and infrastructure installations are placed. The flipside is that you still have a lot of freedom to pick your art installation location anywhere else at OA. If every art installation were placed, then you would have no say over your installation location at all. The placed camps/installations are not necessarily getting "the better deal."

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Art Cars

Art Cars (and infrastructure vehicles) are the exception to the no driving rule. You may drive your art car around to your heart’s content, but you MUST drive at 5 MPH or lower though. If you are bringing an art car to InterFuse, please inform the Parking Leads prior to arrival.

Please note that if we have to shut down the road because it’s too wet, you must park your art car.

Get On The Art List (Register)

Fill out the form below and press the send button. You will be contacted by an InterFuse Event Planner via email.

Telling the event planners about your art at least TWO WEEKS before InterFuse will get it listed on this page and in the Front Gate Handout. This will make people more aware of your art at InterFuse.

Sound camps can list their DJs and musical performers here, but Theme Camps should be listed and registered on the Theme Camps page.

Performance art should be listed on the Events & Performers page.

Do you intend to burn this art at InterFuse?

Yes. Contact me with additional burn information.


No.

Any location will do, like undetermined, my campsite, near the main effigy, Frog Bog, Moon Meadow, Lake Gaea, etc. If the art will be in your Theme Camp, give the Theme Camp's name.

Questions About Art & Artists?

Use web-based email to Contact The Event Planners.


"It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection;
through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence."

— Oscar Wilde