Do you want to help build a giant, glowing spaceship and then set fire to it in the desert? Step aboard the Luma Module
Artist in Residence at The Centre for Creative Collaboration in London Deborah Davies is trying to raise £11,000 on Kickstarter to fund construction of a huge six metre wide spaceship sculpture to take to Burning Man, the biggest arts festival in the world held annually in the Nevada desert.
The Luma Module will dish out luminous orbs to festival goers who have the option to give back the orbs, which when assembled in the spaceship’s walls will light the desert around it so the hippies can see what they are doing. Davies then plans to set fire to the Luma Module, as is customary on the final night of Burning Man.
Watch their campaign video:
The gift of light
At the heart of the sculpture’s philosophy is the idea of giving and receiving light, which is perfectly in line with the ethos of the festival, where money is not allowed and all transactions must take the form of gifts.
Cargo Cult
The theme for this year’s Burning Man is cargo cults– the projection of spiritual significance made by indigenous cultures upon technology they don’t understand.
Davies has created a narrative to accompany her sculpture around this theme, complete with alien landings and wacky characters, including ‘technothropologist’ Mavis Powers, who you can see in action on the campaign page.
Rewards include little models of the spaceship, so if you don’t get a chance to see the Luma Module illuminate the Nevada desert, you can let it illuminate the mantlepiece in your dingy east London flat.