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.
That's just a tiny part of the announcement, you can read the rest of the theme statement from Stuart Mangrum (the director of the Burning Man Philosphical Center and host of the Burning Man LIVE podcast) here.
For those who may be new to Burning Man, the art theme is completely optional. There will be people who dive right in and create camps, costumes and other art that plays with the idea, and there will also be people who do their own thing. I'm excited to see what kinds of things people come up with. What do you think? Like it? Love it? Hate it?
