VIEW EVENT INFORMATION: Burning Man
The Burning Man Art You Have To See This Year: The Folly
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Date: Thursday 8 August 2019, 12:00 AM
Media: Mixmag

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About the organization Burning Man:
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Sub-Types: Event Production, Event Promotion, Entertainment Production, Entertainment Promotion, Ticketing Agent
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Much of Burning Man's allure centers around the sound camps and art cars, coupled with a quirky vernacular all its own. However, the soul of Black Rock City has always resided within the structures, the artists and the builders. In 1990, when the event moved from Baker Beach to the high-desert of Nevada, known as Black Rock Desert or simply "the playa", this vast landscape quickly became a canvas for a rag-tag troupe of brilliant nerds to flex their engineering ingenuity. They came to explore the furthest reaches of pure creation with absolute freedom, to test the boundaries of human resilience, to reimagine a model for communal connection, and to celebrate this sliver of time we all share with shenanigans and pyrotechnics. Today, the Burning Man Organization builds three main structures: Center Camp, The Man, and The Temple. Most everything else - all of the art, the camps and the performances - are manifested by the citizens themselves, by Burners, who put years of their lives into these tangible notions of radical self expression and cultural commentary. This desert becomes a city built by the people, for the people, and when the event is in full swing, there’s nothing like it on Earth. Aside from the scorching conditions found in the dusty, alkaline-expanse of Black Rock City, the logistical, structural and psychological challenges behind creating large-scale art on playa are frankly unparalleled. Not to mention the slim budgets and exorbitant bodily hours required to conceptualize and assemble a fruitful offering. Now bring all these conditions to a desert environment that’s literally trying to kill you - and a curious petri dish of strange sentiments and elaborate offerings begins to reveal itself.
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