Burning Man Reveals 2023 Theme, Animalia - EDM.com

Following a profitable return to the playa in 2022, the organizers of Burning Man are beginning to put together for subsequent 12 months’s version by asserting its theme: Animalia.

The theme was revealed in a weblog publish revealed in The Burning Man Journal by Stuart Mangrum, the director of Burning Man Project’s Philosophical Center.

“This year’s Burning Man theme will celebrate the animal world and our place in it—animals real and imagined, mythic and remembered—and explore the curious mental constructs that allow us to believe that imagined animals are real, real animals are imagined, and that somehow, despite all evidence to the contrary, mankind is somehow not part of the animal kingdom,” Mangrum wrote.

That could take a minute to digest, but it surely leaves room for interpretation. It’s vital to notice that the theme shouldn’t be “animal,” however slightly “Animalia,” which refers to a various organic kingdom that features each invertebrates and vertebrates.

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“Anyone familiar with the high desert knows that even out on a dry lakebed, the skies carry soaring ravens and buzzing insects, the fairy shrimp slumber below ground waiting for rain, and countless other species roam the transition zones where the playa edges into scrub and wetlands,” reads a publish revealed on Burning Man’s verified Instagram account. “But all that life pales in comparison to the endless menagerie of imagined animals we bring with us every time we come to Burning Man.”

Encouraging Burners to faucet into their creativity is nothing new. But inviting them to discover how mankind pertains to different creatures past the human type is what make this theme fascinating.

“The notion of a human being and another animal being somehow entwined is also reflected in the traditions of tonalism, where every human has an animal counterpart to which their life is linked,” the Journal publish continues. “This belief remains evident in astrology, where being born under the sign of the lion, or the monkey, is thought to somehow shape one’s innate character.”

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