Larry Harvey citations

Larry Dean Harvey est un artiste et activiste américain, qui fut en 1986, avec son ami Jerry James, le cofondateur d’une fête rituelle appelée Burning Man, et l’un des cinq cofondateurs des deux événements qui allaient plus tard fusionner pour former le festival Burning Man, désigné aussi par le nom de Black Rock City, lequel se tient chaque année depuis 1990 à la fin du mois d’août en plein désert du Nevada. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. janvier 1948 – 28. avril 2018
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Larry Harvey: Citations en anglais

“We don’t think the world can be Woodstock … Who’d think the world could be a perpetual carnival?”

"The Wonderful, Weird Economy of Burning Man" in The Atlantic (18 August 2014) https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/08/the-wonderful-weird-economics-of-burning-man/376108/
Contexte: We don’t think the world can be Woodstock … Who’d think the world could be a perpetual carnival? But we do think that the world could rediscover values that used to be automatically produced by culture but aren’t anymore because culture is subject to the commodification in our world. Everything is sold back to us, targeted to demographics. What we have to do is make progress in the quality of connection between people, not the quantity of consumption.

“What we have to do is make progress in the quality of connection between people, not the quantity of consumption.”

"The Wonderful, Weird Economy of Burning Man" in The Atlantic (18 August 2014) https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/08/the-wonderful-weird-economics-of-burning-man/376108/
Contexte: We don’t think the world can be Woodstock … Who’d think the world could be a perpetual carnival? But we do think that the world could rediscover values that used to be automatically produced by culture but aren’t anymore because culture is subject to the commodification in our world. Everything is sold back to us, targeted to demographics. What we have to do is make progress in the quality of connection between people, not the quantity of consumption.

“Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger.”

Radical Inclusion
The 10 Principles of Burning Man (2004)
Contexte: Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.

“The essence of the desert is that you are free to create your own world, your own visionary reality. … Both Burning Man and the Internet make it possible to regather the tribe of mankind.”

As quoted in "Digerati are unlikely celebrants of a primitivist conflagration in the Nevada desert." by Edward Rothstein, in The New York Times (21 July 1997) https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/21/business/digerati-are-unlikely-celebrants-primitivist-conflagration-nevada-desert.html

“I elevated passions into duties. (p. s. That's not enough…)”

Response to the "Why do you do what you do?" question among Burning Man collaborating artists (11 January 2009) http://wdydwyd.ning.com/group/bm

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