We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Temple

Stuart Mangrum and Dicky Davies talk with three temple builders
of Black Rock City. What does “temple” mean in the context of
Burning Man, a secular culture based on humanist principles,
where ritual is a vector for culture, not really a religious
thing..?


Lawrence “Renzo” Verbeck is an architect, contractor, and
sculptor. 


Sylvia Adrienne Lisse collaborates on large-scale, interactive
art teams at Black Rock City, Regional events, and
festivals. 


For Black Rock City, they worked together on the Temple of
Direction (2019) and are co-creating the Empyrean, the 2020
temple, now being developed in virtual space, to be unveiled in
real life in 2021. 


Arthur Mamou-Mani is an architect and director specializing in
digitally designed and fabricated architecture. He was the Temple
builder for Galaxia in 2018 and designed the Catharsis project
for the next Black Rock City.


Empyrean: Meet Your 2020 Temple Artists


Galaxia: The 2018 Temple


VR tour of Arthur Mamou-Mani's Catharsis amphitheatre


Simon of the Playa shares his story of how a little girl grieving
her mother, and burning embers raining down, taught him how to be
human again.


Caveat Magister shares about the principle of Gifting, and teddy
bear profanities.


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