May 15, 2002 - Photos: Mäc		Page 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
	Burning Man – where does this name come from? A large wooden statue is being burnt the last festival weekend. But maybe not this is the most important thing of the event far away from civilization. It is about „community“. You can feel it wherever you go. It is everybody that makes some kind of contribution to Burning Man, we are all transformed into artists and performers, if with our costume or art installation or not. The amount of openess for others, this interactivity and creativity is mindblowing – and here we do have one of the indescribable things that are experienceable only when on site.		You have to put in quite some logistical efforts to visit Burning Man – especially if you depart from Europe. It’s worth just every mile... If you made it and the long trip lies behind you, arriving in the desert with your cooling boxes, ice, food, your crazy ideas and outfit – a world opens up that many lateron describe as „more real“ than the normal world. Well, you arrived at the planet’s largest gathering of freaks, creative and crazy people. Any commercial world stays behind, more than you would think. Except coffee, tea and ice available in the festival’s Center Cafe there is no money in town. People even re-label almost everything and transform the branding of their rental cars. California’s way of thinking freedom can be felt.
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