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

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

A close reading, kept within reach.

Read / watch in
The short version

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.

Ask this talk
What did Larry say about…

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

Larry Harvey.

About the speaker

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.