By addressing Burner values and motivations, we discuss the appeal of burns, notably their multiplex potential for personal and cultural innovation. We recognise burns - Black Rock City and its worldwide progeny events - as experimental heterotopia, or “counter spaces,” that enable a proliferation of ritualesque and carnivalesque performance modes. Conveying qualitative findings from surveys targeted at European Burning Man participants (or "Burners"), and triangulating these findings with ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted in Germany, the chapter explores the complexities of Burning Man’s stature as a transformational event prototype. Also known as Black Rock City, it has spawned a global movement with over 100 "regional events” (or “burns") worldwide. Burning Man is an annual participatory arts event and temporary city co-created in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada.
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