2000 Art Installations

It is The Dawn of Man. A strange black obelisk appears between two groups of violently clashing apes, thus forever altering the course of human history…
…by giving us dominoes! Honor this legacy at Anno Domino 2000: The largest game of dominoes yet seen by man or ape.

A 25′ tall black tower is covered with over a hundred white plaster casts of female torsos.

Suspended beneath a 30′ square open pyramid is a wooden sculpture of an uprooted tree about 10′ from tap root to uppermost tip and spanning about 7′ feet around the branches and roots.

Through the night, a ball of fire hovers, spirals, and swoops over the darkened playa. It’s The Chaotick: an 18-foot-tall automated flaming tetherball inspired by a funky, erratic 19th-century novelty clock.

Colorful flags which represent the various nations of the Pacific are arranged in a spiral, an important symbol in the old culture of New Zealand.

Spencer Tunick’s annual group nude photo shoot is comprised entirely of participants.
URL: www.spencertunick.com

Cosmic Embodiment is an experience of expanding the limits of the personal soul into that of the world soul. The installation is a series of wind-socks of varying sizes including one large enough for a person to walk through. From a distance the installation will look like a school of florescent air serpents snaking through the desert, and it will be black-lit by night.

Desert Bells is a large interactive musical instrument consisting of a formidable wooden structure with very large steel bells suspended from it. The largest bell is 4.5 feet long and the smallest is 1 foot long. They can be played by participants and they also function as wind chimes.

A metal truss structure features three arms radiating from a central hub, each supporting a curtain of hundreds of freeturning CDs. When viewed from a distance with wind animating the CDs a shimmering multicolored wall of light is seen.

Once again the Mystic Krewe of Satyrs bring to the playa a marvellous Mardi Gras-style float – a gigantic golden fire-breathing dragon.

Pegasus, the winged horse, flies up out of the playa surface.

The Labyrinth is a medieval spiritual tool which is being rediscovered in our time. It is a universal path, one path in and out. Walking the Labyrinth is an ancient spiritual act of pilgrimage symbolizing one’s walk with God or journey through life.

The Firefall is a water fountain on fire. A small amount of fuel spreads on the surface of the water and is lit on fire. The water protects your hands so you can hold the flames.

A dozen hand-decorated table lamps are suspended in perfect balance from this spinning mobile.

Drum to your soul’s content on Corndog’s re-purposed junk-metal sculpture, “Sonic Rocketship 000”. Earplugs and leather gloves recommended for extended crushing.

A welded metal participatory sculpture and musical instrument:
“Ring them bells, ye heathen from the city that dreams
Ring them bells for the blind and the deaf
Ring them bells for all of us who are left.”
— Bob Dylan, 1989.

Which is it? Look for these rotating signs outside the Central Cafe.

A field of vertical copper pipes with bottles on the ends is laid out in the shape of a figure in a yogic pose. There will be spaces within the arrangement in which people can walk or rest.

The Palookaville Institute of Contemporary Art presents a 24 foot-long couch and a 10 foot tall chair to be used for “counselling.”

A single poem (Tilicho Lake by David Whyte) is mounted on a board in front of which is a wooden box with paper and pen for participants to write down anything that they want to leave behind, let go of or be forgiven for. The cards will be burned with the Man, and circling the box will be Tibetan prayer flags.

Far out on the playa stands a wall of 25-30 television screens complete with light and sound that will play various video segments and visuals of computer generated imagery and video shot from the previous Burning Man Space Cowboys.

A large honeybee will be burned as an end sacrifice of thanks to the pollinators which help give us food.

The temple of the mind is a place where pilgrims can confront the demons of their own mind and become one with the greater mind. It is made from the recyled wooden pieces of dinosaur kits.

TOGETHER is the yearning we feel to find or reach a soulmate, lover, or friend. Struggling through Time, Matter, and Mind, two bodies try to reach each other to connect, but cannot. They’ve limited their perception to the physical, for it is only as their true selves, their spirit, that they really connect.

Twinkie Henge is just like Stonehenge but it will last longer. In the cafe you will find a tiny Stonehenge made of Twinkies.

Lovely roses glow softly at night, powered by solar cells within their leaves.

Performance artist Marque Cornblatt brings WaterBoy back to the playa, and he’s now mobile!

A gigantic worm appears to crawl in and out of the playa.