Decoration at Boom 2010 is bringing back colour and cutting-edge ideas for the emergence of a new aesthetic.

The indigenous people of the Caribbean did not build temples or cities adorned with monumental art. They represented their mythic heroes and gods in carvings of wood, stone and shell. These objects, called zemis, possessed supernatural powers, both in their finished form and in the raw material from which they were made.

Carved wood zemis took the form of birds, human figures and elaborately polished ceremonial benches called duhos, on which shamans and chiefs reclined during their trance journeys to the spirit world.

Greenstone frogs, enigmatic faces with staring eyes, spiral decorations and half-human, half-animal beings represented the powers of nature in visual forms.

At Boom 2010 decoration is created to ignite mind into another level of the perception of art. Paint, sculpture, digital live painting, acid graffiti or visuals will be presented during the August full moon. Some of the most influential visual artists and decorators of our time are fuelling curiosity about technology and materials for a noble purpose to arise at Boom: the emergence of a new aesthetic representing both the powers of nature and of our mind.