Every year since 1985, in the middle of Black Rock Desert, Nevada, the Burning Man Festival is celebrated, an event that is a direct descendant of Beat Generation and hippie culture. The festival is also a meaningful illustration of the kind of creative anonymity that characterised the nineties.

For Labour Day weekend, between 10,000 and 15,000 people congregate around a dry lake to vent their creative impulses. Everyone participates; no one is just a spectator. Each person brings along what they need to survive in the desert plus the supplies for their art project.

The result is an ephemeral city with streets that circle around the main avenue leading to the square with the Burning Man, a 15-meter wooden statue that is burned at the end of the festival. This year’s theme is the psyche (the conscious, the unconscious and the subconscious). The first meeting of the event’s 3,000 organisers is open to the public and will take place on April 2. E.S. 

Burning Man Festival Spring Volunteer Recruitment Town Meeting
2.4.2005, h 12
Swedish American Hall, Cafe DuNord
2174 Market Street, Black Rock City – U.S.A.
https://www.burningman.com