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“I didn’t want it to be just an art installation. I wanted it to have an ephemeral life.”
“This is beyond a bait and switch,” organizers say.
It will be up for four months.
Catharsis organizers are fighting a new policy that would put a stop to a ritual fire meant to help event-goers heal from trauma.
Burning Man meets D.C. in a vigil for victims of all kinds of trauma.
They said they were going to burn a temple on the Mall, and they did.
“Even though this is about a nightmare—the war on drugs—this event is really positive and inclusive. That’s the root motivation,” says Robert Haferd, a civil rights attorney and one of the event organizers.
A little bit of Burning Man is coming to the National Mall.
