Photo Credit: Peter Jennings [Artist Unknown] [Special News, Breaking Alert graphics] [Do do do do do do do do do do do do] [Tom, the News Anchor:] Broadcasting live from the memory of a giant television stage somewhere on the Effigy Paddock, it is now time for...
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Art Grants ahoy!
Brows were beaten, coins were tossed (jokes), gauntlets were thrown. Mythical Picnic Art Grants have been decided, but it wasn’t easy. Kiwiburn Arts Committee (KAC) had a busy time banging our heads against a table to figure out how to allocate funds so you could...
How to Build & Bring a Mobile Art Project to the Paddock
Mutant Art Car!? Bro, I am in. What else do I need to know? We tapped the beautiful maple tree of knowledge and sustenance that is Lumos’s brain again to find out what other sticky tips he could provide us on how to create and bring a Mobile Art Cars to the Paddock....
The Geeks shall inherit the Multiverse
Well that was unexpected, cool, hilarious fun! BRCvr, or Black Rock City Virtual Reality brought the Multiverse to the world in the last week of August, after Burning Man was understandably cancelled due to Covid-19, like most large events this year. What an amazing...
Volunteering: How to Get Out of Your Tent and Share Your Talents
Photo Credit: Diia Bourke, 2018 It’s that magical time of the pre-Burn, where we send out the siren calls for our most awesome army of dedicated contributors, the ones that literally make the Burn happen, the ones that keep you safe, build the infrastructure, check...
The Rise of Mobile Art – aka Mutant Art Cars Rule
Mutant art cars rule and we need more of them! We caught up with Lumos, long time Mobile Art enthusiast and contributor, to find out more. Aside from building Art Cars (and ships!), Lumos is well-known for fire spinning (huge balls of fire!) and has dedicated heaps of...
Applying for an Art Grant from Across the Globe
Photo credit: Elise Koncsek How to fit your art project into a suitcase. For this blog post, we thought it would be good to catch up with a Kiwiburn Art Grant recipient from overseas and find out more about her experience in visiting Kiwiburn for the first time and...
Introducing: The Octopussy.
“An interactive art piece to surprise, invigorate, challenge and “rebirth” willing participants” – Squishy. Content: vaginal chat. It was Thursday afternoon at Kiwiburn 2020, and the tension was high. The first episode of Kiwiburn Art Committee’s (KAC) Art Shark...
How to Art.
Nico is a long time Art contributor and recipient of multiple Kiwiburn Art Grants. So we thought it would be a good idea to pry open that head of his and syphon out some of that juicy knowledge he has been squirreling away up there - with his consent of course! Read...
The Story of Trong!
Kiwiburn Art Grant submissions are now open for 2021, so we caught up with one of the recipients of a 2020 KB Art Grant to find out more about his experience. Daniel applied for and received a grant for his project “TRONG!” Read...