2025 Art Listings

All artworks in these listings will be presented by these artists on the open playa in Black Rock City. Honoraria Art H has been awarded a grant by Burning Man Project. Registered Art includes all other projects that have registered for placement on the open playa in BRC. You can learn more about the BRC Art program here.

2025 Art Search for "seesaw"

Seesaw Organ

by: Daniel Newman-Lessler
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2025

Seesaw Organ is a musical playground instrument in which the motion of a seesaw drives two bellows, which then feed air to organ pipes. Players control which pipes are sounding via handbrake cables that control valves inside air routing wind chests that also serve as benches.

Seesaw-Door

by: Lieyi Shen
from: Hangzhou, China
year: 2025

Seesaw-Door is an interactive installation featuring three seesaws, each created with salvaged doors and frames from Nevada junkyards. Embedded with assorted peepholes, the doors obstruct direct visibility while creating semi-visible interactions through limited sightlines.

This playground device becomes a metaphor for modern connection, simultaneously separating and linking participants. The repurposed doors and peepholes humorously challenge consumerist values. As a temporary Burning Man piece, it will complete its narrative through ritual burning, embodying creation to dissolution.