GLAM International: Burning Man Arts and Culture with Lorenda Calvert

The GLAM International Series will help galleries, libraries, archives, and museum professionals in BC reflect on what it means to be an informed citizen with a global perspective. Through this podcast series, we will interview innovators, disrupters, and thinkers that help to frame the work we do in an international context.

In this episode, Leia talks to fellow BCMA staffer Lorenda Calvert about Burning Man arts and culture. Lorenda shares how she got involved in Burning Man, Black Rock City as a large-scale art gallery, and three ‘museums’ at Burning Man. Finally, we chat about the sector in general and how some of the teachings at Burning Man might help shake up how we engage the public. 

 

Links from our conversation:

More About Burning Man

Learn about Mutant Vehicles

Heavy Meta

El Pulpo Mecanico by Duane Flatmo and Jerry Jerry Kunkel

The Midnight Museum of That One time at Burning Man by Jerry Snyder

Learn about MOOP and leaving no trace at Burning Man

The Museum of No Spectators by John Marx and Absinthia Vermut

 

We are grateful for support from the BC Arts Council.

Music courtesy of Chad Crouch, The Sound Of Picture Production Library.