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Mark Adolph AKA Leut, Seattle, Washington/ Do More Now camp, veteran burner Mark Adolph(-Leut-) – close up portrait Burning Man 2015.
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I’ve been able to make banners and install a bunch of prints around the playa of Mike Brown and Sandra Bland and Rekia Boyd and others.
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There’s a project I have been doing called Justice for Our Lives, a portrait series of people from marginalized communities who have been killed by police.
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I got a free ticket, and I was able to bring my art to the playa to share. But the main reason is that it’s a lot of money. It’s hella white! The type of music is mostly techno, and there’s a perception people of color aren’t into that genre. Oree Originol, Oakland, California/ Que Viva camp, two-time burner A comedian there told me that Richard Pryor was going fishing with some white people, and he was afraid for him, because fishing is “not what black people do.” There’s a certain mindset, when you see white people doing things, where you think, “I better stay away from that.” It could be hereditary, from when you absolutely did have to stay away from things white people did. I opened up for Eddie Murphy in 1987 with my puppet act. The medium here is dust, not water, but it still connects people in pleasure.Ĭhristopher, Las Vegas, Nevada/ Black Roller Disco camp and Soul Train art car, veteran burner We have to ask: Am I betraying my people if I have pleasure with white people here? Interracial sex or even just a pleasurable conversation? The McKinney pool incident this summer reminded us of the danger which lurks when white and black people try to share a common medium, like water, for fun. There’s a sense of survivor’s guilt in pleasure for any group of people who have endured some nightmare, from genocide to dire poverty. But our lives have value regardless of how “productive” we are. It disconnects ourselves from our bodies, so that we grow to believe we are only here to be productive citizens. And the problem is that fun and leisure have become the domain of white people.
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Photograph: Alexander HeilnerĮven as progressives, we don’t think about how to experience the universe through pleasure. Someone held an American flag over the ruins, and the heat just incinerated it.įavianna Rodriguez, Oakland, California/ Que Viva! camp and Migration is Beautiful art project, four-time burnerįavianna Rodriguez. And after “the man” was torn down, there was all this protest about the War on Terror. I thought they were going to throw me on the fire! The white people were going so crazy. I was afraid when I saw them burning down this man. Nicholas Powers AKA Honey Shot, Brooklyn, New York/ People of Color camp, 12-time burner This is an extreme experience! And, there’s the fact that some really horrific things have happened to people of colour out in the wilderness. It’s expensive to buy a ticket and then you have all the things you need to buy to be out here. There are massive amounts of white folks. But there’s no lack of black people in the arts, so I don’t know why that’s not represented here.Īshara Ekundayo, Oakland, California/ Que Viva! camp, first-time burner I don’t think we came across very many black people along the way. My dad took us camping as a family, from coast to coast in Canada. If I can generalize, black people do not gravitate towards things that make them uncomfortable. But when I first came here I was like, “What the fuck?” I loved it.ĭug Claxton, Toronto, Canada/crew of Smoke and Mirrors installation, five-time burner My family saw a picture of me dressed up out here wearing a tutu, and had an intervention when I got home because they thought I was gay: I just loved dressing up! Back home, I was probably one of the most conservative, stick-up-the-ass people you could have known. I love Burning Man! But most of the black people who came out of the hood I grew up in think this shit’s crazy.
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I just think there’s certain things that white culture gravitates to.Ĭraig Lee AKA Big Happy, San Francisco/ Black Rock Roller Disco camp, four-time burner And I don’t feel like it’s segregationist. I had to think about the dust in my hair! I think we need to acknowledge that white people have culture too. Maybe you’ll find some people of color, but generally speaking, this is not our bag. Photograph: Tyra Fennellįirst-time burner Tyra Fennell (Burner name Fifi Pickford), San Francisco/ Valhalla camp Photo of Tyra Fennell (-Fifi Pickford-) supplied by Fennell Burning Man 2015.