Karma Love Camp
tuned to the universal energy of giving and belief that our collective efforts come back to us in positive ways.
The philosophy of Burning Man is closely aligned with the concept of karma. The annual event is an experience driven entirely by gifts that enhance the experience for all, ultimately returned in kind. Burning Man wouldn’t be such an incredible experience without the actionable philosophy of giving without expectations.
Our camp embodies and exemplifies the contribution cycle, demonstrating and expanding the Burning Man ethos, the circle of giving and the Ten Principles.
We share an affinity with karma from the cultures and movements that contemplate it, but represent them only in abstraction. Their icons are ancient and powerful in the psyche, triggering attention and contemplation. Their images and rituals are transformed through our creative lens–emerging different–Burnified.
We are creatives who seek to expand their karmic presence at Burning Man, who are dedicated to the radical transformation of humanity through the nexus of interactivity represented by our camp collective.
Cosmic Passage
The easiest way to find Karma Love at night is the 17 ft tall lighting effect on this amazing streetscape cuddlespace. From a central pole, strings of LEDs radiate outward in a 30-ft radius, running a custom program that creates colorful patterns. Visitors flop on the pillows at the base and enjoy gazing at the heavens through the outdoor light show overlay and chill space. Every night a stunning 30-foot diameter visual cone runs custom coded,
randomized algorithms to provide a psychedelic experience for for those relaxing on in the pillow cuddle puddle below.
Built and brought for your enjoyment by camp members Setia and Trixie.
Allwaysallready(t)here
Visual meditation on a timeless cycle. Ancestral symbols combine with contemporary musings, layering art, and science onto a 6’ x 20’ mural.
During daylight hours, sunlight brilliantly shows the mural’s pure-color inks of cyan, magenta, yellow. Night time is flooded with alternating red, green, and blue flood-lights that layer images morphing and coalesce into one another. Light and color theory drive the process. The three pure-color inks of cyan, magenta, and yellow visibly change the mural depending on which color of light is being used. In red light cyan appears black, while magenta and yellow nearly disappear. Designed and produced by camp member Dina.
Chill Zone
This year we're adding a 30x20 shaded area within our
streetscape that doubles as an event space and chill out area where camp
members mingle with visitors. At night, a white curtain is drawn over
part of it and light patterns are projected upon it.
Camp Diversity
The majority of our camp members are female, while our overall population was truly global with half from overseas, spanning Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Events
We offer a full schedule of amazing events including many gifts
for the public from entertainment to food and beverages.
10 Principles of Burning Man
Burning Man co-founder Larry Harvey wrote the Ten Principles in 2004 as guidelines for the newly-formed Regional Network. They were crafted not as a dictate of how people should be and act, but as a reflection of the community’s ethos and culture as it had organically developed since the event’s inception.
Radical Inclusion
Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.
Gifting
Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.
Decommodification
In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.
Radical Self-expression
Radical self-expression arises from the unique gifts of the individual. No one other than the individual or a collaborating group can determine its content. It is offered as a gift to others. In this spirit, the giver should respect the rights and liberties of the recipient.
Radical Self-reliance
Burning Man encourages the individual to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner resources.
Communal Effort
Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.
Civic Responsibility
We value civil society. Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. They must also assume responsibility for conducting events in accordance with local, state and federal laws.
Leaving No Trace
Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.
Participation
Our community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. We achieve being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions that open the heart.
Immediacy
Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute for this experience.
