A core component of the Colossal-curated exhibition, No One Knows All It Takes, is community participation. Each of the artists- Bryana Bibbs, Raoul Deal, Maria Gaspar, and Swoon ( previously)-is deeply engaged with the people they portray and collaborate with, a commitment that inspires nuanced, insightful projects and a truly communal process. As part of the exhibition at the Haggerty Museum of Art, we've considered how to reflect this mode of working through programming and a participatory project.
Have you ever wanted to burn a man? In June 1986, the founders of the Burning Man project and nonprofit, Larry Harvey and Jerry James, built a wooden human effigy and set it on fire on San Francisco's Baker Beach as a symbolic act of letting go of their personal crises. They call it the First Burn. Every year since, the two committed to doing it again.