I Rez Therefore I Am

TO: M2Danger Ranger m2 Burner EmCee Widget Kev Sweetwater Principals, Burn2 FROM: Vaneeesa Blaylock, Artistic Director, VB/CO RE: Refund for the space that you won’t allow me to use. Dear M2Danger, m2, EmCee, and Kev, On Monday, Ronon Carver, head of Burn2 security and apparently chief Burn2 art moderator, informed me that we would not [...]

You can’t say a bad word about Burning Life ’09, and indeed Silene’s Artist Camp was all about creating on-site, learning new things, and interacting with other artists. Still, I think the bulk of ’09 was an open house of amazing stuff to go look at. Perhaps in this tight-knit 6-region Burn2 we can interact more.

BURN2 will be held October 16 – 24, as scheduled. Our Burning Man-inspired theme is “Metropolis: Civilization in the desert.”

For 2010, VB/CO will present 12 works of performance art.

What’s so amazing about a place… a space… a moment… a gift… like this crazy dwell between Bryn’s mosquito Ferris wheel and her sensorium cloud… is how capacious it is… how generous it is… and how it invites not just your brain… but also your body… to exist in resonance with it… in this time and in this space…

VBFM #4 – Burning Life ’09 Zombie Crawl Virtual Black Rock City 21 October 2009 Images on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vaneeesab/sets/72157623348715981/ We participated several times in Burning Life ’09: • VB11 – Fire Walk with Me – http://vaneeesa.com/portfolio/#vb11 • Silene Christen’s Artist Duel Camp with Laurel Leavit – http://www.flickr.com/photos/vaneeesab/sets/72157623352311943/ • And we took to the streets for [...]

This year’s Burning Life theme is Evolution. Evolution is a contextual idea. Yes, we can chart it for millions of years. We can consider the watershed of the cambrian explosion, that eventually finds, among it’s far downstream rivulets, our story. But we are most often most interested in the vicinity of our story: the journey [...]