AfterBurn : Reflections on Burning Man

AfterBurn : Reflections on Burning Man. Lee Gilmore

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Author: Lee Gilmore
Page Count: 221 pages
Published Date: 31 Aug 2005
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication Country: Albuquerque, NM, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780826333995
Download Link: AfterBurn Reflections on Burning Man
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The Burning Man Festival is a weeklong spasm of radical self-expression held annually just before Labour Day since 1986. In late August 2003, more than 33,000 participants converged in Nevada's Black Rock Desert for this counterculture event staged as an experiment in temporary community. The participants gather to rid themselves of the conventional structures of their life and to 'sample' the alternatives in hundreds of theme camps. The climax of the festival comes when attendees erupt into cheers and applause at the burning of a forty-foot-tall human effigy described as 'part pre-technological idol and part post-technological puppet'. Both Lee Gilmore and Mark Van Proyen have attended Burning Man annually since 1996.

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