Burning Man’s founder Larry Harvey describes how the festival of arts is driven by a strange combination of jeopardy and awe

Art & Photography/2015/1 min/Reel № 15.001

ByLarry Harvey

Trailer: Larry Harvey on how Burning Man festival created art with a social purpose

Make. Change./Recorded 2015

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Larry Harvey takes art & photography as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in USA in 2015, the conversation is grounded in Larry's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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Burning Man’s founder Larry Harvey describes how the festival of arts is driven by a strange combination of jeopardy and awe.

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Larry Harvey

California/USA

Larry Harvey is the founding board member and chief philosophic officer of Burning Man, an annual festival of arts in the Nevada desert.