Preview: David Best's Temple Project
- Mar 3, 2015
- 1 min read
Photo by Luke Szczepanski.
Burning Man is a legendary week long festival which takes place each year in the heart of the Nevada desert.
The festival is described as an experiment in community, art, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance and takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy, which is set alight on the Saturday evening.
Since 2000, there has been an addition of the burning of a Temple which takes place the following evening and festival goers have the opportunity to inscribe messages of joy, sadness, pleasure, and pain on the surfaces of the piece. Then on the final night of the festival it is set alight releasing its messages of hope into the sky.
David Best is the original Temple creator. Between 2000-2004, and in 2007 and 2012 he created the Temples that adorned the Nevada site and again in 2014 when he came out of retirement to build the Temple of Grace.
Following the success of last year’s Lumiere Derry-Londonderry, Artichoke have managed to bring David Best and his crew to Derry to create a structure that will tower over the city. With help from the people of Derry themselves who have volunteered their services, and will learn new skills, they will create possibly the most impressive piece of sculpture Derry has ever seen, and just like in Nevada, it will be set alight.
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