Documented by Canadian photographer NK Guy between 19, many if not most of the creations have remained unseen or undocumented until now. But it is also host to a number of strange and fantastic happenings and site-specific installations and sculpture, including a mechanised fire-breathing octopus, lofty wooden temples standing 15 metres tall and the eponymous Man himself.Ī new book from TASCHEN, The Art of Burning Man, rounds up 16 years of these beguiling and ambitious desert structures, recycled sculpture and effigies which are ceremoniously burnt and destroyed during the Nevada festival. In its simplest incarnation, Burning Man is a seven-day desert rave where, blinded by dust and no doubt half-delirious from the sun, festival-goers erect a makeshift city for a surreal week of madness.
Something of a massive social experiment, the festival built around ideas of community, art, gift-giving and what is called “radical self-reliance” takes its name from the ritualistic burning of a towering wooden effigy on the Saturday night.
For one week every year, Nevada’s windswept Black Rock Desert is descended upon by over 65,000 revellers for Burning Man festival.
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