商品簡介
During the week before Labour Day every year, 49,000 people gather in Nevada's Black Rock Desert to build Black Rock City. At the center of Black Rock City is a 40-foot wooden effigy of a man, an icon around which art, performance, and community revolve. Since 1986, the Burning Man Festival has evolved from founder Larry Harvey's personal healing ritual into a cultural movement where ceremony, religion, visual art, and performance converge on an epic scale.
In this volume, Rachel Bowditch---performer, theatre director, scholar and Burning Man participant---explores the spectrum of performance and ritual practices within Black Rock City, from the everyday to epic spectacle, the profane to the sublime. Bowditch argues that Burning Man can be understood as a contemporary galaxy of happenings, a revival of the ancient Roman Saturnalia, a site for rehearsals of utopia, and a secular pilgrimage. As Burning Man continues to grow, it is creating new paradigms for performance, installation art, community, and invented rituals that bridge ancient traditions to the twenty-first century.
作者簡介
Rachel Bowditch is a performer, theatre director, performance studies scholar and an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University in the School of Theatre and Film. She has presented her research at national and international conferences in Singapore, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil and London. Her directorial work has been seen in American Theatre (January 2009) and Live Design (October 2008) for her innovative use of multimedia.
