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

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.
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