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kazren  ·  3967 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Artists Fleeing NYC

What`s the burner community?





JackTheBandit  ·  3967 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The term "burner community" is sort of a catch all for the people actively participating in the subculture surrounding Burning Man.

From the POV Im observing [I live in NYC (born here), age 25], NYC area burners seem to have their hands in all things "underground," possibly due to the kind of people that subculture tends to attract.

A lot of recurring parties, art collectives and such that I've personally come across and interact with here, seem to be tangentially or directly related to the burner community.

elizabeth  ·  3967 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm guessing it has to do with the Burning Man but fail to see it's link to New York... Maybe my guess is wrong.

JackTheBandit  ·  3967 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The term "burner community" is sort of a catch all for the people actively participating in the subculture surrounding Burning Man.

From the POV Im observing [I live in NYC (born here), age 25], NYC area burners seem to have their hands in all things "underground," possibly due to the kind of people that subculture tends to attract.

A lot of recurring parties, art collectives and such that I've personally come across and interact with here, seem to be tangentially or directly related to the burner community.

elizabeth  ·  3967 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Seems very interesting.

I've recently been to an underground experimental music show in Vilnius. I have to say the music was weird (it's even quite hard to say it was music and not performance art) but the people I met there were all very nice and super interesting.