Venture back out to the dusty, dusty Playa with Diablo for a recap and interviews with some of the artists from this year's Burn!
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2016 Honorarium Installations
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2016 Black Rock City Art Installations
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We began the tour in the BMIR Air room because the Christina was running late
Our first guests were the creators of "Usra Major", Mr and Mrs Ferguson
- Reaching to grab what is within her grasp is Ursa Major, a 14 foot tall, grizzly bear sow. She may simply be reaching for berries but perceivably she is reaching higher: to the northern sky and the constellation that is her name, Ursa Major. In navigation, the constellation is useful in pointing the way to the North Star.
Ursa Major’s pose is inspiring, she brings the gaze and hopes of the participant skyward. She also demonstrates respect for the bears and nature, her pose is not like a taxidermy bear. She is in her natural state and unthreatening.
With a durable, unique material that was used on their previous Burning Man project (Penny the Goose), Ursa Major’s fur will be made of US and Canadian pennies. The pattern and feel will be like fur.
Then a Preview of Russian Art Project for 2017 "Birding Man" (Dazzle!)
Larry Harvey on Charlie Rose
Information on "Le Attrata" by Therm
Katie Hazard Central Arts Team interview and info on "Pulse Portal" by Davis McCarty
A portal acts as a gateway to a distant and magical world. Pulse Portal is a freestanding laser cut parabolic archway made from steel and tessellated dichroic acrylic pyramids. Juxtaposing futuristic materials that reflect the viewer and the rugged landscape will provide a sense of awe and inspiration as they step onto the playa. The combination of these materials and geometric design will create an effect that simultaneously feels space age and classic effectively placing the viewer in a time portal.
(Space Whale?)
"Inside the Mind of Da Vinci" - by Phoenix Rising and Wrecking House (G-Spot with Michelle Riley)
A larger than life sculpted head is partly submerged in the earth from our Renaissance past. In a dust storm you stumble upon it and are awed by its presence as the sands blow off of it. Walking around the large sculpture you can enter: Inside The Mind of DaVinci.
The back of the head is cut out into two archways allowing entrance into the hollowed out interior of the piece. The interior has etched into the surface, Leonardo’s sketches and writings. Geometric shapes that illuminate colors of blue, red and yellow create a unique and pleasant atmosphere with beautiful colored shadows cast by the sun inside the head.
The inside of the head is a resting area where there are cement balls to sit on that can be pushed and rolled leaving written words in the sand. It is a community spot for gathering and sharing artistic and inventive ideas. The piece consists of concrete, bronze, recycled glass and metal.
*Greed (Avaricia) by Marco Minaya, Visiones del Sueño, from Peru --Self-Funded-- (Dazzle!)
Throughout history the ruling classes have attracted and utilized the creative genius of the brightest minds to build and preserve wealth and power. In reciprocation the inspired have sought out the wealth and resources of the rich and powerful to realize their dreams. Resulting in some of the most inspirational and destructive forces that the has seen from the time of the Renaissance to present day.
*Renaiximent - (Renaissance) by: pink intruder (miguel arraiz + david moreno) from: Valencia, Spain (Dazzle!)
A combination of geometry and sculpture with techniques used in the Fallas festival from Valencia, Spain.
A reinterpretation of grotesque decorations from Valencia Silk Market, UNESCO Heritage building from XV century.
Grotesque decorations at this building were used by civic society to laugh at and face against established power and rules.
Molds and pieces hang in the inside of the installation and create a space for participants to interact.
A golden cube in the desert to attract people inside, where they become part of an art installation that mixes the contemporary language of the latticed architecture of the pavilion with the cardboard pieces and molds of a traditional Fallas guild.
The cube lays over a wooden mosaic of thousands of pieces assembled by social collectives. The debate between traditional and contemporary is held over the floor that has been built by the collective. Neither the tradition nor the experimen
URL: http://www.pinkintruder.com/?p=476 Contact: info@pinkintruder.com
Plug 4 Play Collective (Promo) -(Diablo)
A confluence of elements in African-American, Caribbean, & Latino culture in New York in the ‘80s gave rise to one of the most formidable music genres of the century: Hip-hop. Plug ’n Play pays tribute to the essential power of hip-hop & its foundational elements: Emceeing (oral), Deejaying (aural), Breaking (physical), Graffiti (visual), & Knowledge (spiritual).
Plug ‘n Play is a large orange wooden electrical plug protruding upwards. Surrounding the Plug are five Quad Boxes with interior exhibits; each visually represents one of the five elements of hip-hop.
We plug in; we explore & examine the almighty vinyl record, the mic, & the crowd. In our DJ Dojo, feel with your hands what it’s like to drop the needle on the record & physically engage with actual vinyl. Passersby can tune in on turntablism demonstrations, scratching lessons, & roundtable sessions on the Elements. We’ll also have lectures, films, sonic history trips, & other interactive moments. “If music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it.”
Info. on Sinner Stage --Self-Funded-- (Diablo)
Matt Walker
The Sinner Stage is a heathen theater setting with three large steel and rebar sculptures on it. The Devil’s Throne stands powerfully in the center cushioned with sensual red velvet, and on one side is The Satan Andrew’s Cross, both standing over 8′ tall with 4′ ceramic horns looming overhead. On the other side is The Dark Star, with the appearance of a sand worm crossed with a flower it is poised, blossoming, and ready to strike. It is made with 560′ of 1/2 inch rebar twisted and woven together forming the base/stem, 33 ceramic thorns, and 5 large ceramic petals/horns at the top reaching 12′ tall.
*Out Late ---Walk-in--- (Diablo)
Matt from Berkley
Oz and team from Eastern Washington
Mentioned:
Piazza di Ferro
The Ascension Pendulum
Bloom (Actually Grove)
Roshanai (Illuminate) Charles Gadeken
This year the Iron Monkeys will pay homage to our craft by building a functional, participatory blacksmith shop on playa. Encircling the shop will be a public gathering space, encouraging the community to observe, discuss, and contribute to what is happening in the shop.
by: Taylor Christensen - Lotus Ranch - Camp Shakin Bacon
The Ascension Pendulum is a blend of architecture and technology that serves to identify the unique touch human interaction represents while illustrating the beauty of the participant’s experience. The 34′ tall tetrahedron will support a large pendulum capable of drawing intricate patterns into the playa. By capturing the movement of the pendulum, three projectors draw an identical image in light on every side of the structure. This project’s goal is not only to put the participant on display, but to involve them in creating a continually changing art piece. The amazing thing about the human element is that it is inherently random and by harnessing this, our project ensures that the same pattern can never be created twice unless by a robot in controlled circumstances. What this means is that each participant will be involved in not only creation, but synthesis, creating something completely new that cannot be replicated which represents each persons individuality in a aesthetically pleasing way.
Visualized as a grove of beautiful low hanging trees, Grove is an interactive art installation that uses breath sensors to create a meditative and immersive experience. A reflection on the interdependence of breath, Grove uses biofeedback sensors, connecting our inner workings with tangible art installations.
Grove brings together artists from India with neurotechnologists and architects from America, making it a truly global collaboration. Grove is a meditation on the interdependence of breath. Every time we breathe in, we inhale the ‘out breath’ of a tree around us, placing ourselves in a constant state of union between the macro-forest outside, and the micro-forest of alveoli within our lungs.
Grove uses technology related to the quantified self, to break down the idea of self entirely and to remind us that we are all interconnected, through breath, to every living creature on this planet; from the leaves on trees to the sand of the desert.
*Electric Renaissance, Keith (Dazzle!)
Hot Dog Hats -Fluffers
15 for 15
*Axis Mundi --Self-Funded-- (G-Spot)
by: Jason Hickey & Kat Caric
A huge geodesic dome with large streaming panels of fabric attached as its crown, sheltering a sacred circle of life-sized handmade goddesses, is Axis Mundi. Inside, five glass women stand holding space in a healing circle of the feminine. Come enter this transformational arena – a circle of glass! Hand-cast thick blocks of glass, sculpted with reliefs of the female form and arms outstretched in compassion, welcome Participants. The circle they surround seems closed, yet calls you to duck under to enter. Overhead are spirit-charged oil paintings of soul stirring imagery, continuing the healing work of this place. Bells blow on the wind overhead. The space is alive, pulsing. At times it will be a quiet healing meditative space and other times there will be drumming, rattling, journeying, ritual, or even ecstatic dance for those who dare join in, or just watch and be changed. Find your center, your Axis Mundi.
*Trasparenza by: Andrea Greenlees --Self-Funded-- (Diablo)
by: Andrea Greenlees
TRASPARENZA, Temple of Transparency, celebrates emerging from darkness into light. It is an experiential installation that takes a chapel-like form, that Burners can enter and enjoy both inside and out. It is a playful and whimsical tribute to the genius of Leonardo da Vinci and the glories of the Italian Renaissance, a Florentine Folly. The structure is totally transparent, made of clear cast acrylic panels exquisitely laser-cut with intricate imagery. The words ‘Saper Vedere’, meaning ‘knowing how to see’, line the entrance. This was the phrase Leonardo used to describe the dominant skill of his own genius and the transparent installation plays with this notion.TRASPARENZA is a humanist chapel celebrating human endeavour and creativity, and the artist as inventor, where Burners form a colourful congregation visible to everyone outside. At its heart stands a completely see-through sculpture, “Vitruvia”, that explores the concept of ‘Divina Proportione’ using the body of a woman rather than a man.
*Oid by Michael Christian (Diablo with Kevin Biall who built the Trees for the center of the Temple last year)
*La Victrola --Self-Funded-- (Diablo)
La Victrola is a 35 ft tall Art Nouveau gramophone. Around its base is a fully immersive turn-of-the-century cabaret featuring the live music and performances from another era. During daytime hours, La Victrola will play the old time music of crackly old 78s to all who cross its path. Each evening, the cafe tables and lounges will be filled by the audience and performers will grace its stage. On a playa dominated by digital technology and music, La Victrola offers a counterpoint of jazz, blues, bluegrass, classical, and vaudeville that formed the foundations of what we hear today.
Mentioned
Parasolvent
Medusa Madness
Medusa Madness
Dare to stare and be mesmerized
by: Dan Benedict
“Parasolvent” is an interactive kinetic sculpture. A 23 foot tall rotating ring of parasols that open as they ascend and close as they fall.
Parasols are protective devices created to shield us from the elements. Here they represent the emotionally protective devices we believe are protecting us, but are in fact hindering our progression. This is a meditative piece about letting them go. The parasols exit a human figure, blossom (open) as they rise, and decay (close) as they fall. Parasolvent was inspired by the artist’s first Burning Man in 2013 and chosen as an Honorarium piece for 2014.
*Wish Upon A StarWay with DD --Self-Funded-- (Diablo)
by: Deborah Davies (Dd)
Standing over 15 feet tall, StarWay is a star thrown to earth with two of its points sticking into the earth. It is a star made of over two hundred individually lit stars that twinkle internally, yet glow under a bank of UV light in blue, yellow and green. StarWay twinkles happily in the dark and yet it will twinkle more brightly if you make a wish on it. In order to make a wish on it you need to be in possession of a ‘wishing star’ that you place on the ‘wishing console’. StarWay shows that the more we wish the brighter the world will be.
by: Artists of the Burntanical Garden
from: Reno, NV
When we’re sitting by a fireside, all of our senses become absorbed in the experience. The calming focus of attention relaxes and calms us. The Burntanical Garden provides the multi-sensory stimulation of fire through a collection of one-of-a-kind art pieces. It is a respite from the chaos and sensory overload of the Playa.
Fire Art Pieces – Each art piece is a unique creation from a different artist. The fire-art pieces utilize standing flame to create a calm, sociable atmosphere; a place to keep warm, and to make friends. Individual art pieces are arranged within the garden, with seating, to create a space to appreciate each piece. Pyrocents ensure participant safety and answer questions about each art piece.
Fence – The 20’x30′ garden is bordered by a steel panel fence. Fence panels are constructed of rectangular welded square steel tube frames. Individual artists will ‘fill-in’ the blank canvas with cut sheet steel designs, which are welded in place.
The Man /Guild Workshops (Diablo)
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*Vibraj with Dania --Self-Funded-- (G-Spot)
Vibraj (Haitian for vibratory) is a climbable wind harp and percussive instrument, designed to give the wind a voice. Vibration as the main expression attempts to point at the interconnected nature of the universe. Sunrise, Sunset, and colored light animate painted climbable surfaces. The top half of an S curve is produced by combining 28 wooden boxes acting as resonating chambers for the harp portion into a curved climbable staircase. The bottom part of the S curve is steel pipe bent into multiple curves and welded together producing a flute like instrument for the wind, and a percussive instrument for human interaction. LED spot lights with slowly phasing color create animated night views with the painted portions of the instrument. Citizens interact with Vibraj by climbing on, viewing changing color patterns, plucking, strumming, singing with, and pounding out rhythms. Designed to give the wind a voice Vibraj expresses via the elements.
*Octacius with Peter Hazel (G-Spot)
Octavius is a giant octopus covered in a bright mosaic of hand-cut ceramic tiles in shades of orange, blue, and purple. The eyes and suckers are molded glass, and glow with the light of hundreds of LED bulbs, symbolizing enlightenment from within. Representative of the octopus spirit, Octavius inspires the participant to adapt fluidly to new or uncertain circumstances and explore deeper emotions. He also invites participants to open their hearts to the natural wonders of the world, deciphering complex puzzles and thus finding answers that may have seemed difficult or impossible at first.
*Endless Prospect of Life and Wonder a Biodiversity Sphere" with Shane Shane --Self-Funded-- (Dazzle!)
The Sphere depicts the importance of biodiversity. Originally a 500 gallon propane tank, we carved 45 endangered creatures and flora from around the planet. Participants may enjoy playing the sphere using attached mallets. The sphere is pretty during the day and mesmerizing at night, especially when lit inside by fire, providing some heat for a chilly night, or by LED lights. It’s a great gathering spot, complete with a table to hold your drinks!
This ramp is for the mobility challenged citizens to have access to art cars. It has a steel frame and is covered in wood painted with DaVinci-inspired depictions of mobility challenged dreams, goals, and accomplishments.
These are public notice signs that establish a starting point for bike tours given by the ARTery team members. This large pink and black sign will inform participants of the availability, timing and physical direction of bike tours along with additional information on playa-art. These signs will (hopefully) be co-located with the Art Car Bus Stops which will provide some seating while people wait. Citizens on foot may get lucky if a passing by art car stops and is willing to pick them up.
Mentioned
-Catacomb of Veils (Participant Joay)
-The Black Rock Lighthouse Service (Participant ?)
-The Temple
Catacomb rises like a rocky outcropping off the desert floor, evoking Black Rock Point itself. It is a ruin of a previous society– a remnant of our collective search for moments of quiet, introspection and reflection. It is a journey of discovery and a descent into a subterranean world.
A path winds up to the Narthex at the eastern Pyramid and from this vantage point, the inward descent begins. Ancient relics of a collective history grace the walls as shafts of light illuminate effigies and offerings. These are moments in our primeval memory, inviting us further downward and inward into ourselves. The journey culminates in an inner sanctum– a sanctuary of veils– a confluence of concealment, revelation and sublime beauty.
A crystal like cluster of Lighthouses ranging from 6 to 60 foot tall and some leaning as much as 20 degrees. Inspired by the juxtaposition of creating a destination of fun and shelter by something that is meant to warn you of danger. This adult jungle gym aims to become a destination where participants come to seek shelter, play, meetup with friends and navigate the inland sea that is the Playa. At night the Lighthouses will truly come alive with fire, light, and a few other surprises.
The temple this year will be built in the tradition of David Best temples, but with a significant departure from his usual style – this temple will be hand-built without CNC cut materials. It will be extremely ornate, with a large interior altar and a large chandelier. This temple will take on an ancient air, patina’ed with organic water-based stains, and look as if it were built hundreds of years in the past.
There will be 8 altars placed around the courtyard, which is walled off to create a protected, quiet, respectful space. The interactivity will be the usual function of the Burning Man temple: it will be a place for the community to come and express their emotions, reflect on the losses of friends and family members, and celebrate the lives of people around them. The temple will be built with the consideration of the community, with adequate space to accommodate the needs of people in the temple and the surrounding courtyard for reflection, safety and privacy.
Rest In Peace:
David Bowie
&
Prince Rogers Nelson
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