On the Edge of Utopia

Performance and Ritual at Burning Man

Rachel Bowditch

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Seagull Books London Ltd
15 June 2010

The Arts: General & Reference; Pageants, parades, festivals

Series: Enactments

During the week before Labor Day every year, 35,000 people gather in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert and build Black Rock City. At the center of Black Rock City is a 40-foot wooden effigy of a man, an icon around which art, performance, and community revolve. Since 1986, the Burning Man Festival named for this effigy has evolved from founder Larry Harvey’s personal healing ritual into a cultural movement where ceremony, religion, visual art, and performance converge on an epic scale.

In On the Edge of Utopia, Rachel Bowditch— performer, theatre director, scholar, and Burning Man participant—explores the spectrum of performance and ritual practices within Black Rock City from the everyday to wild spectacle, the profane to the sublime. Bowditch argues that Burning Man can be understood as a contemporary galaxy of happenings, a revival of the ancient Roman Saturnalia, a site for rehearsals of utopia, and a secular pilgrimage. As Burning Man continues to grow, it will create new paradigms for performance, installation art, community, and invented rituals that bridge ancient traditions to the twenty-first century.

By: Rachel Bowditch
Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 24mm, Width: 17mm, Spine: 4mm
Weight: 851g
ISBN: 9781906497255
ISBN 10: 1906497257
Series: Enactments
Pages: 364
Publication Date: 15 June 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rachel Bowditch is assistant professor at Arizona State University in the School of Theatre and Film. She is artistic associate of Schechner's East Coast Artist Exchange and associate of RoseLee Goldberg's Performa.