French birgin from Iowa

Etienne · Post by **Etienne** » Mon Jun 07, 2010 8:06 pm

Hi guys,

I am part of a bunch of students from Iowa State University who are taking a class called "Burning Man Studio".
Basically, our class is about making an artwork or a performance for the festival and then go and do it.

So here I am, with my huge projects and my awesome expectations.

Hope to meet you over there.
ATN

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Mon Jun 07, 2010 8:52 pm

Be careful with those expectations. Be sure to let go of them when you get there.

So, I am very curious. Can you elaborate on this class? You actually are coming up with something and then coming to the desert to implement it? This is a summer course? Do tell.

And welcome to eplaya. Good to have you here. Does the class include studying the First Timerâ€™s Guide?

Post by **AntiM** » Mon Jun 07, 2010 8:56 pm

Welcome. Do begin studying the Survival Guide right away. Read the boards, join in. Have fun.

The cat is right, expectations are the mind killer. Just get prepared as best you can, let go and enjoy.

Post by **Elderberry** » Mon Jun 07, 2010 9:22 pm

Hey there, welcome to eplaya!

JK

Etienne · Post by **Etienne** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 7:49 pm

Thanks all of you for the warm welcome.
I will try to let go, and from what I understood I won't even have the choice, right?
I am really excited though!

[quote="LeChatNoir"]So, I am very curious. Can you elaborate on this class? You actually are coming up with something and then coming to the desert to implement it? This is a summer course? Do tell.

Does the class include studying the First Timerâ€™s Guide?[/quote]

This class is a summer studio from Iowa State University. The goal is to design, build and bring an art installation or performance to the festival. So we have a two months class right now and then a one week class over there (It sounds great of a class, I know!)
This happens thanks to Samantha Krukowski @ [url=http://rasa.net]http://rasa.net[/url] who is the professor. She basically wants us to be free to express ourselves in the playa's way, opening our minds and so on.

We began our class by a group sand mandala that you can see here http://fr-fr.facebook.com/group.php?gid ... 877&ref=ts (we just began this group ;) ).
Then we had an individual landscape art project from which more photos will come on the facebook group above. Just to mention that pART pLAYERS is our name, and it really transmits well what we want to achieve here and over there.

So we have amazing projects beginning for the BM. You will hear more about it around here pretty soon, don't worry ;)

We have read three or four books on the festival, including Jessica Bruder's one, and we had to read the guide alone. I am sure we will have more insights about it, acually our camp leader Paul Mallion is gonna explain more about the how to tomorrow so I will then be able to be more precise!

Hope I answered your questions,
ATN

MisaBlue · Post by **MisaBlue** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 1:00 am

Hi Etienne, welcome here!
You are lucky to have such a class, sounds great. What do you study...art, scenography?

Picture of that mandala is nice...what have you done with it when it was finished? I am just curious...

Let us keep update on your class.
Hope to meet you and see your project on playa.

MisaBlue

teardropper · Post by **teardropper** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 2:20 am

Expat Iowan, here. Cool. Bring it to the playa, hope I can find you...

Post by **Sham** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 2:31 am

Hey Etienne, welcome. Very interesting stuff you crazy kids have going on here. How many from your class will be coming here? Has anyone in the group attended before? Can you give a bit more background on this and some thoughts about the type of performance things you may be planning. Center Camp has several stages that can be used, but you can also just start performing in an area where there are people gathered and make your own impromtu stage.

Give details and we can help. Remember that the entire event is done by the participants. Unlike Disney World where you are a guest who comes to see the attractions, at BM, you are the attraction.

Etienne · Post by **Etienne** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:15 pm

Hello,

Since a lot of people seem interested by our class, here is a link with photos of some of the projects.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/isu-colleg ... 270079453/

As you understood, Mine is the first one.
And it should look like that :
http://hyennal.free.fr/images/ISU/BM/fo ... _blanc.jpg

Here is the submission I made today to the BM art application :

Une Boufee d'Air is a foodless restaurant. It is a reflection on how people eat - at what pace, alone or in company, hidden or in view, types of food, as ritual or purely for fuel. How people utilize and inhabit the tables, painted entirely white and set with empty, fixed objects, is of particular interest. Will they sit and talk with no food? Will they bring their own food? Will they see the installation as sculpture, and choose not to enter it? In a metropolis, a restaurant is a gathering place, but none has the same environment or encourages the same behaviors. Une Boufee d'Air offers myriad opportunities for re-inventing the experience of eating.

Une Boufee d'Air is a foodless restaurant. Nine tables (3'x3'x4') will be arranged and set for two people. Everything will be painted white. There will be objects glued to the tables. These will include plates, glasses, napkins, forks, spoons, knives, empty wine bottles, and sometimes additional objects like books, coins, menus, checks, candles. The installation will be surrounded by white electroluminescent wire, placed on the ground, in order to prevent night collisions and to announce it.

@MisaBlue : The mandala has been blown by ourselves and we will bring half of the sand in BM the rest of it will go in a river in Iowa.

@Shambala : We are well aware of the "everybody is a participant" motto. That is why all of us have pretty ambitious projects for such a short time. For all of us students, this will be the first time in Burning Man. The teacher has been there twice already.
We are planning mostly art installations. A painted tower, huge macramÃ©s, a gigantic quilt, Lots of apples, my white foodless restaurant... We also have one person who will bring paintings or an artist who is currently doing lots of animal masks in order to be able to change of it frequently.
Oh, and we are 12 students, I think.

Warmly,
ATN

rhymeblue · Post by **rhymeblue** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 7:28 am

Hey everyone - I'm the prof teaching the Iowa State summer design studio - 12 students in all - amazing work on the way out to the playa. I'm going to put up a more complete page or two in the next few weeks - will post the link here. Any questions or thoughts send them my way!

Etienne · Post by **Etienne** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 12:54 pm

And for your eyes only, our first official news ever!

We are so excited now!

Post by **AntiM** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 1:14 pm

Cool.

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 3:09 pm

Etienne,

I just read more about the class (via the same link), but from the Jack Rabbit Speaks news letter. It's sounds like a wonderful idea and I'm anxious to see how it will develop once on the playa, too. I have a particular interest in the Burning Man Quilt and was excited to learn that it will be completed by participants at the event. I may have something that I'd be very interested in gifting to that project.

I also liked your idea of the foodless restaurant. Good to slow down. Good to be reminded to slow down.

I hope to meet you in the dust.

Etienne · Post by **Etienne** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 3:11 pm

Well I will be spying around my project a lot so we might meet over there!

(I just read the JRS as well, this is awesome

)

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 3:20 pm

Where do you anticipate that you'll be camped? Or if the projects are not near your camp, perhaps they'll be listed in the What-Where-When guide?

Edit To Add: If not influencing the project with giving out locations publicly is part of the exercise, then I understand and will trust that I'll find you if I'm supposed to.

Lowz · Post by **Lowz** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 4:41 am

hi there , French virgin also
(we probably won't meet but ..whatever.. )

Etienne · Post by **Etienne** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 8:26 am

@LeChatNoir : I am waiting for BM to know where the thing is gonna go.

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Hey Lowz,

Why not?

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Some more news coverage :
http://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/arti ... 002e0.html
http://www.amestrib.com/articles/2010/0 ... 266764.txt

Hahah I am the guy with huge eyes on the pictures.

This Woman · Post by **This Woman** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:59 pm

This sounds very cool - I'll be looking for it.

French birgin from Iowa

French birgin from Iowa

ATN and the Iowa State Gang