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burning man 2018

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Arthur Mamou Mani, a prominent Architect based in London and runs Mamou Mani Ltd., had the honour of building the Burning Man Temple for the Burning Man Festival 2018. A temple made from completely eco friendly materials, that stands 30 metres high, 60 metres in width, and that will burn on the last day of the festival with hundreds of thousands standing in silence as it burns.
To achieve this, Arthur needed to raise £500k of Angel investment to bring his temple to life and gift it to the world. This meant for the crowdfunding video we had to take a more emotional approach, targeting the Burning Man community and touching people on a personal level to spiritually show the importance of the temple to one another around it.

Burning Man 2018

Каждый год в пустыне Невада проводится один из самых сумасшедших фестивалей на планете — Burning Man. Тысячи людей возводят временный город, где живут на протяжении нескольких дней. Главными принципами фестиваля становятся взаимопомощь, экологичность и отказ от денег, но, что самое важное, здесь царит невероятно творческая атмосфера.more

Burning Man

2017
حرق رجل
燃烧的人
バーニングマン
ГОРЯЩИЙ ЧЕЛОВЕК
Hyperlapse

Burning Man is much more than just a temporary community. It’s a city in the desert, dedicated to radical self reliance, radical self-expression and art. Innovative sculpture, installations, performance, theme camps, art cars and costumes all flower from the playa and spread to our communities and back again. In this section you will learn what you need to know about creating art for the playa, find out all about this year’s art installations, read essays about Burning Man and art from both staff and participants, and revisit some past off-playa art events and exhibitions.

burning man

حرق رجل
燃烧的人
バーニングマン
ГОРЯЩИЙ ЧЕЛОВЕК
2014
Caravansary
embrace

Первый Burning Man состоялся в 1986 г. Лари Харвей из штата Орегон. чтобы отвлечься от несчастной любви, сжег деревянную фигуру мужчины на маленьком пляже Бейкер Бич в Сан-Франциско. Рост скульптуры, создать которую американцу помог приятель, составлял 2,5 м. На церемонии сожжения присутствовало 20 человек. Через 10 лет их было 8 тыс., в 2006 г. — 39 тыс., а в прошлом году — 50 тыс. За эти годы деревянный исполин вырос в несколько раз, а участники действа, переехавшего в пустыню, придумали новые развлечения, сценарии и традиции. Фестивали в Неваде тематические. «Инферно», «Надежда и страх: будущее», «Американская мечта» уже были. Нынешний девиз — «Эволюция».

BURNING MAN

حرق رجل
燃烧的人
バーニングマン
горящий человек
2013

BURNING MAN

حرق رجل
燃烧的人
バーニングマン
ГОРЯЩИЙ ЧЕЛОВЕК
2013

BURNING MAN

حرق رجل
燃烧的人
バーニングマン
горящий человек

O festival funciona como uma motivação para as pessoas, trazendo chaves que podem abrir a porta para os aprendizados sobre como vivermos melhor, em harmonia uns com os outros e com o Planeta. Os Burners certamente saem dali transformados, formando relações pessoais significativas e criando forças para a realização de projetos maiores, como consequências da experiência.
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BRYANT NICHOLS

Формы II
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Forms – это серия совместных фильмов, созданная лондонской креативной звуковой студией Mount Audio. В рамках текущего проекта Mount каждый месяц объединяется с ведущими визуальными художниками для создания уникальных аудиовизуальных работ. Forms II демонстрирует яркую работу дизайнера из Лос-Анджелеса Брайанта Николса. Деформированные фигуры художников изгибаются и искажаются, вращаясь друг вокруг друга, образуя абстрактные человеческие структуры. Вдохновленный альтернативной реальностью Брайанта, Маунт создал полностью синтезированный саундтрек с богатыми, модулирующими текстурами, чтобы создать тревожную атмосферу. Эффект снотворный, но дезориентирующий.

Verena Friedrich

Vanitas Machine

The installation VANITAS MACHINE addresses the desire for eternal life and the potential of life-prolonging measures. Based on a candle which – by means of technical intervention – burns down very slowly, vanitas machine creates a contemporary analogy to the endeavour of prolonging the human lifespan with the help of science and technology.Being one of the classical vanitas symbols, a burning candle recalls the futility of the moment, the transience of human life and the certainty of the end of all existence. But is this end really still inevitable?In the course of the last two centuries, average human life expectancy has increased significantly in the industrialised countries. Moreover, in the context of scientific research the biological causes of ageing are being explored. Numerous theories of aging have already been developed pointing both towards physiological as well as environmental factors.One of the first theories of ageing was the so-called »metabolism theory«, which claims that the lifespan of organisms is reciprocally related to energy turnover and therefore connected to calorie intake, oxygen consumption and heart rate: The higher the metabolic rate, the shorter the lifespan of the organism.

THATGAMECOMPANY

Journey
File Festival
Enter the world of Journey, the third game from acclaimed developers thatgamecompany and presented by SCEA Santa Monica Studio. Journey is an interactive parable, an anonymous online adventure to experience a person’s life passage and their intersections with other’s. You wake alone and surrounded by miles of burning, sprawling desert, and soon discover the looming mountaintop which is your goal. Faced with rolling sand dunes, age-old ruins, caves and howling winds, your passage will not be an easy one. The goal is to get to the mountaintop, but the experience is discovering who you are, what this place is, and what is your purpose.

Austin Houldsworth

Walden Note Money
The project imagines a payment system that challenges the established monetary function of ‘a store of value.’ Creating a new method of exchange that encourages people to actively destroy their money during a transaction. The process positively reinforces this behaviour through the creation of music, produced from the burning money within the transaction machine.

Rita Góbi and Ryuji Yamaguchi

vibration
A collaboration between Rita Góbi (HU) and Ryuji Yamaguchi (JP), Vibration is a physical poetry of the live body that explores attraction and repulsion, and irregular rhythm. Burning in the colors of red and orange, and trapped within a circular magnetic field, two figures vibrate in tension until the heart tears apart.

the livermore centennial light bulb

At 117-year-old (as of June 2018), the Centennial Light is the world’s longest-lasting light bulb. Burning since June of 1901, it is currently located inside Fire Station #6 at 4550 East Avenue, Livermore, California, and maintained by the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department.

PAUL CHAN

1st light

Paul Chan’s work summons the darkness that envelops us despite the greedy illumination of our cities. Evoking our world on the verge of disintegration, it celebrates the light that emerges in too much light.
The fight is no longer the fight between day and night that inaugurates Murnau’s Faust, but that between the light of the spirit and the light of things. In this shadow theater, under the auspices of a telegraph pole shaped like the Golgotha ​​cross, we witness the rise of the objects of our consumerist societies.
Phones, I-Pods, scooters, whole trains rise to the sky, saved, as the shadows of men fall, hurled to the abyss, like the suicide bodies of “September 11” victims falling from burning towers.
The image, gradually modified along the continuum of projection, carries with it the prophecies of the Apocalypse rehashed by American fundamentalist movements, and the obvious disgrace of a society that celebrates its materialist cult.

Jeppe Hein

杰普·海因
ЙЕППЕ ХАЙН
ЈЕПЕ ХЕИН
burning cube
“我对公共项目的态度以及对公共空间的重新配置,着重于通过将艺术嵌入日常生活领域来将艺术融入日常生活的尝试。我最关心的是艺术品,建筑以及私人和公共空间之间的关系。应该创建空间,物体和观察者之间的关联结构。因此,我的公共项目主要针对特定​​地点,涉及城市发展和建筑。他们受到该地区背景,氛围和环境以及居民的影响。公共空间的开放性提供了以非常概念化的方式工作的机会。在没有任何制度限制的情况下,自然,空间,公众和周围环境的条件可以被反映出来,然后转化为艺术观念。
我的作品探索了观众,艺术品和环境之间的情况,挑战了艺术在博物馆和公共场所在不同环境和社会环境中的作用。互动是我作品的独特元素,因此观众扮演着至关重要的角色。我的装置为观看者提供了参与作品动作或面对意外惊喜的可能性。
对我而言,雕塑的概念与交流息息相关。对我而言,访问者的直接和实际体验比被动的感知和理论反思更重要。因此,我将雕塑理解为空间和观看者之间的参照系统,并具有传达“运动”过程的能力,以此试图打破传统的态度和对艺术的期望。在大多数当代城市都缺少交流场所(例如,自由,创意的空间和旨在促进互动与交流的区域,需要人们与周围环境及其他人进行对话的场所)时,这一点尤其重要。”

POTLATCH

Gretchen at the Potlatch Feast

“Potlatch is a festive event within a regional exchange system among tribes of the North pacific Coast of North America, including the Salish and Kwakiutl of Washington and British Columbia.”
The potlatch takes the form of governance, economy, social status and continuing spiritual practices. A potlatch, usually involving ceremony, includes celebration of births, rites of passages, weddings, funerals, puberty,and honoring of the deceased. Through political, economic and social exchange, it is a vital part of these Indigenous people’s culture. Although protocol differs among the Indigenous nations, the potlatch could involve a feast, with music, dance, theatricality and spiritual ceremonies. The most sacred ceremonies are usually observed in the winter.
Within it, hierarchical relations within and between clans, villages, and nations, are observed and reinforced through the distribution of wealth, dance performances, and other ceremonies. Status of families are raised by those who do not have the most resources, but distribute the resources. The host demonstrates their wealth and prominence through giving away the resources gathered for the event, which in turn prominent participants reciprocate when they hold their own potlatches.
Before the arrival of the Europeans, gifts included storable food (oolichan [candle fish] oil or dried food), canoes, and slaves among the very wealthy, but otherwise not income-generating assets such as resource rights. The influx of manufactured trade goods such as blankets and sheet copper into the Pacific Northwest caused inflation in the potlatch in the late eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuries. Some groups, such as the Kwakwaka’wakw, used the potlatch as an arena in which highly competitive contests of status took place. In rare cases, goods were actually destroyed after being received. The catastrophic mortalities due to introduced diseases laid many inherited ranks vacant or open to remote or dubious claim—providing they could be validated—with a suitable potlatch.
Sponsors of a potlatch give away many useful items such as food, blankets, worked ornamental mediums of exchange called “coppers”, and many other various items. In return, they earned prestige. To give a potlatch enhanced one’s reputation and validated social rank, the rank and requisite potlatch being proportional, both for the host and for the recipients by the gifts exchanged. Prestige increased with the lavishness of the potlatch, the value of the goods given away in it.