ABSTRACT
Burning Man is not something that can be concisely described or summarized in brief. To explain it as an annual, week-long, arts-based event in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, where tickets now cost an average of $600 and attendance is capped at approximately 80,000 people, is like defining art as combinations of visuals and sounds that affect the eye and the ear. Since 1990, with the exception of one year, the main event has taken place in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, a harsh, arid climate that presents physical challenges above and beyond the normal concerns of taking care of one's body in everyday life. While human bodies often cannot help but succumb to their inherently political cultures of influence, they are first and foremost sensory objects in persisting, relative states of becoming.
