The Main Event
At the heart of InterFuse is a giant sculpture (sometimes called "The Man" or the "Main Effigy"), which is set on fire at the height of the event.
The Tesseract (Main Effigy)
At the epicenter of the Oddity will sit The Tesseract, the fourth dimensional equivalent of the cube. Come fold your experience through this structure. Map out your mischief on its planes, intersect with other adventurers, and hurtle off in unexpected directions!
On Saturday night (10:00 PM), oddities of all shapes will converge on the Tesseract to create a space for fire performance and celebration. At the height of this event, we will transfigure the Tesseract into an abstract form of smoke and memories.
The 2010 Effigy Construction Crew is deep in the project's design phase and will post new information here as it becomes available.
As InterFuse 2010 approaches, much more information will be found here including the effigy's basic blueprints, a detailed effigy description, notes on how you can participate, and more. Come back soon!
If you would like to volunteer to help build or decorate The Tesseract, use the form at the bottom of the Volunteer page. You will be contacted by email with additional information.
Two fire-breathing sea serpents guard the depths of this steamy, boiling Aquatic Inferno! Every water creature is invited to swim through and play in the serpents’ sea cave. You may leave the leviathans burnable gifts and write messages on the cave walls.
On Saturday night, all denizens of the deep will display their unique skills of fire and celebration to inspire the serpents to shed their skins in the flames of regeneration and creativity!
NEWS UPDATE FOR 2009: The time for Saturday's Main Effigy Burn has been changed from midnight to 10:00 PM. Tell your neighbors!
The effigy will be closed off at 4:00 PM on Saturday so the Arsonists can prepare it for the burn. All art, messages, decorations, mini-effigies, etc., must be piled around the effigy by this time.
How YOU Can Participate:
Treasure Chest
The Giving Tree is coming back this year but this time it’s in the form of a Treasure Chest hidden within the briny depths of the Sea Serpents’ Cave! The Treasure Chest is a place where you can leave items you no longer want or need, and/or take something you'd like to give a new home. As we learn to embrace a lifestyle of "Reduce, Reuse, & Recycle" and conscious consumption, the Treasure Chest promises to be an inspiration for both the giver and the receiver.
Maybe you have some books you are done reading and would like to find a new home for them. Or perhaps you have an extra pack of AA batteries that you'd like to offer up to help someone who forgot to spring spares. Leave a coffee cup, a cigarette, or a packet of Excedrin. Do you want those green glow sticks for dancing tonight? Ooh yeah. They are yours! Toys, pois, clothes, jewelry, food, tunes, body paints, incense, whatever... The possibilities are endless! So, go rummage through your closets, and look under the bed... Give new life to some of your previously cherished items. Make way for the new! What have you got? Bring it!
The Treasure Chest will be removed before the burn and none of the stuff in it will be burned.
Decorate The Serpents
What do you think sea serpents look like? Come paint scales, body accents, and messages on the serpents! Paints and brushes are provided but you may bring your own too!
Bring Offerings
You’re invited to leave relics lost at sea, offerings, and companion sea creatures to accompany the Serpents into the Inferno on Saturday night. Make sure that all art you leave is made of organic materials that are not toxic to burn. Please secure all mini-effigies and added art so it doesn’t blow away and create MOOP (Matter Out Of Place).
The effigy will be closed at 4PM on Saturday to prepare it for the burn. You may not decorate it, add art, or rummage through the Treasure Chest after this time.
The Burn
On Saturday night at 10:00 PM, InterFusers will gather at Moon Meadow. Fire spinners, drummers and other performance artists will build our energies to a fever pitch. Then we will set fire to the effigy's four dimentions and we'll see what happens!
But the celebration doesn't end there! The energy we build will be dispersed through the InterFuse community as participation kicks into high gear everywhere, all night along.
There is no meaning assigned to the burn. It's completely subjective. Each person comes away with their own personal meaning.
Past InterFuse Effigy Burns
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| InterFuse 2004 Wheaty |
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InterFuse 2005 Der FrankenMann |
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InterFuse 2006 The Pantheon |
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InterFuse 2007 The Pyre-amid |
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InterFuse 2008 The Television |
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InterFuse 2009 The Sea Serpents |
Related Links:
- Events & Performers
- Campground Map (from the InterFuse 2010 Front Gate Handout)
- Art & Artists
- Fire
- Theme: A Spacial Oddity
- Volunteer
Drumming At The Main Event
Here is a good website for drum rhythms - it also has sound bites so you can hear the rhythms. Some rhythms to check out are: Baladii, Maqsuum, Sayyidii, MaSmuudii, Ayyuub, and Malfuuf.
Related Link: Sound & Music
Questions About The Main Event?
Use web-based email to Contact The Event Planners.
"Yes, dance. Dance and dream. Dream that you’re Mrs. Henry Jekyll of Harley Street, dancing with your own butler and six footmen. Dream that they’ve all turned into white mice and crawled into an eternal pumpkin."