{"id":594,"date":"2026-01-12T14:01:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ellipsis.pink\/phl\/?page_id=594"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:45:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:45:38","slug":"afrikaburn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ellipsis.pink\/phl\/?page_id=594","title":{"rendered":"AfrikaBurn | 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

teatime @ AfrikaBurn<\/span><\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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initiation<\/h3><\/div><\/div>
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In 2025 I undertook a deliberately labour-intensive making project for AfrikaBurn, shaped by the event\u2019s ethos of gifting and decommodification\u2014a temporary culture \u201cunmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising,\u201d where participatory experience is valued over consumption.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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planning<\/h3><\/div><\/div>
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Working under severe time constraints alongside exhibition deadlines, I nevertheless chose to prepare and use reclaimed clay that was ideal for the project. I threw small, thick-walled cylinders at cup scale, then hand-carved each form  so that every piece became  a unique gift. After bisque firing, I glazed the cups using a focused selection of my specially created glazes\u2014greens, browns, and red\u2014allowing variation to emerge through layering. In total, seventy chawans (tea bowls) were completed.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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outcome<\/h3><\/div><\/div>
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At the event, the objects became part of a small ritual. We set up a nomad-style bedouin camp near a major artwork, served tea in the bowls, and gifted the cups to anyone who came by. After initial hesitation, people settled into the invitation: they sipped their tea, viewed the artwork with cup in hand, sat on cushions, ate rusks, and began talking\u2014sometimes with us (my husband as collaborator and co-host), sometimes with other strangers. The camp became a small social infrastructure for slowing down: a lived counterpoint to acceleration and a practical enactment of attention, exchange, and presence. In that slowing-down I recognised what Hartmut Rosa describes as relationship with the world through contact, response, and transformation\u2014where attention replaces rushing, and an object functions less as \u201cproduct\u201d than as a carrier of encounter.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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