Does Your Art Party Need a Philosophy?
Whenever a discussion of Burning Man’s philosophy gets big enough, someone who isn’t enjoying themselves always tries to ruin it for everyone by playing the “do we even need a ...Read More
To Reconcile Art and Commerce, Take Them Less Seriously
My first post in this series explored the way in which Decommodified art can do things that commodified art can’t. ...Read More
Earth Energy: An Interview with Burning Man Co-founder Will Roger Peterson
Photographer, conservationist, and Burning Man Co-founder Will Roger Peterson lives in Gerlach with his life partner and fellow Co-founder Crimson ...Read More
So Much Gratitude — For You (Yes, YOU)
Burners around the world kept the flame burning brightly this past year. Some of us built an ephemeral city in ...Read More
An Invisible Thread Connects Us: Paiute Shoshone Blessing and Tule Harvest
Black Rock City rises each year on the ancestral land of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone ...Read More
Anything Commercial Art Can Do, Decommodified Art Can Do Better!
In my first post in this series, I said that decommodified art can do things that commercial art can't. But ...Read More
Burning Man 2023: ANIMALIA
“Sometimes, I am the beast in the darkness.” ―Heather Durham The Black Rock Desert can appear at first glance to be ...Read More
Decommodify Permission: Make Incredible Experiences With What You Have
For the past year I’ve been visiting different Burning Man communities and offering to work with local artists and creators ...Read More
Inclusion, Freedom, and Discovery in “Unconfined”
Renowned human rights activist Dr. Victor Pineda spends his days teaching at UC Berkeley and running two global initiatives through ...Read More
Waking Dreams: The Legacy of Desert Siteworks
In this episode of the Waking Dreams series we’re going to time-travel back to the earliest days of Burning Man ...Read More