Burning Man

The festival Burning Man is a great musical and multi-coloured meeting until the indescribable one which takes place each year in the desert of the Nevada. It takes place the last week of August, first Monday of September being non-working in the United States (Labor Day).

In English, burning man means man which burns .

It is Larry Harvey which initiated in 1986 the festive cremation of a giant mannequin on the beach of Baker Beach, which faces the Golden Spoils Park with San Francisco. In 1990, the event is moved in Nevada to have the place to accommodate installations ( Art Camps ) and participants ( Burners ) increasingly many.

This wandering city which is reconstituted each year is today the third city most populated of Nevada during the one weekend time (at the beginning then six days), named . The event attracts from now on groups of participants coming from Europe and Asia, provided that they may find it beneficial finances and to be found in the environment of this environment except standards. The publication of photographs on Internet sites of participants reinforces a higher bid in the creativity to make “extremely” and to disguise themselves.

The participants tend to gather in bands posting of the vestimentary and identity topics marked, interfering the culture developed by the urban groups with a certain form Tribal ism revived in the improvisation.

From an individual point of view, the experiment makes the good share with the personal expression and the creativity taking again the spirit of the movements known as alternative , though the thickening of the participants does not make it radical (one can speak about a physical and sensory test).

An episode of the series Malcolm is also entitled Burning Man , during which it goes there in family.

Statistics of frequentation

Progressive success of the festival Burning Man, according to the reported figures of has timeline one BurningMan.com :

Bibliography on the subject

KRISTEN, Christine: Reconnecting art and life At Burning Man. in: Raw Vision, NR. 57 (Winter 2006), S. 28 - 35.

VAN PROYEN, Mark/GILMORE, Lee (eds.): AfterBurn: Reflections one Burning Man. New Mexico City: University off New Mexico City Near

PIKE, Sarah Mr. 2001. Goddesses and Apocalyptic Article Making Sacred Space At the Burning Man Festival serves. In: Mazur, Eric Michael/McCarthy, Kate (eds.): God in the Details. American Religion in Popular Culture. London/New York: Routledge, 155-176

KOZINETS, Robert V. 2002. Edge Consumers Escape the Market? Emancipatory Illuminations from Burning Man. In: Newspaper off To consume Research, 29, June 2002,20-38

HOCKETT, Jeremy 2004. Reckoning Ritual and Counterculture in the Burning Man Community: Communication, Ethnography, and the Coil in Reflexive Modernism. Essay. Albuquerque, New Mexico City: The University off New Mexico City

DOHERTY, Brian 2004. This is Burning Man. The Rise off has New American Underground. Boston/New York: Little, Brown and Company

CHEN, Katherine 2004. The Burning Man Organization Grows Up: Alternate Blending Bureaucratic and Structures. Essay. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University

BÖNNER, Bertine 2005. Das Burning Man Projekt - Religiosität und Spiritualität in Black City Rock'n'roll? Eine ethnologische Perspektive. Magisterarbeit. Grin Verlag

See too

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External sites

burningman.com - official site
Burning Man France - official site of the French community
Burning Man on Google Maps - air Sight of Burning Man

Sites of fans

Burning Man photographs by Scott London
Slideshow from Burning Man 2003
Burningman.com
Google Maps satellite view off the Black Rock City site
Hand-drawn map off Burning Man 2005 (Psyche)
Photo essay from has Burning Man virgin' S perspective
Burning Man 3D - ten years off stereoscopic photographs
Playa-dust.com - Photographs of Burning Man by Tristan Savatier
Photos by Barbara Traub de Burning Man -- 1994-2003 and 2006