In 2015, Dr John Steele participated in AfrikaBurn with a view to writing an academic paper on land art. Here’s his finished paper, as published in the South African Journal of Art History. More »
No matter how you cut it, a luxury experience being paid for at a burn is a commodity; it’s a service being sold. Someone doing your shit for you at a cost takes us right back to the impersonal transaction of the default world. Concierge culture? Plug & play? AfrikaBurn co-founder Monique Schiess vents a little on the subject. More »