ABSTRACT
This chapter is an invitation to re-imagine potential interpretations of inclusion, setting up a dichotomy between inclusion and exclusion to establish a series of questions around difference. Drawing largely upon Bakhtin's theories of monologic, dialogic, and heteroglossia as rhetorical devices to frame the behavior of bodies inside and outside of heterotopia, Radical Inclusion explores the self that not only includes what it can bring into its familiar system of knowing, but what might be available when it has temporary access to voices that are not its own. The main case study for this chapter employs a heterotopia of the Black Rock City diaspora; a site-specific arts event produced by the Artichoke Project and designed by Burning Man Temple artist David Best. Best garnered a wealth of resources in Derry, Northern Ireland, and took Radical Inclusion to the next level by not only including a new community of participants in the long reach of Burning Man art, but also by creating a space where two factions of a deeply divided population were able to embody the experience of including each other.
