Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Porta-Parties

So if you're joing us, you are encouraged to bring an antithemelement, a porta-party, or both. All ideas and declarations are welcome! Everyone that is camping with Antithematica is required to contribute something. I know requirements are lame, and that i'm a very rigid and structured sort of person and that i need to loosen up and shed that, blah blah blah. but we have principles, people, 10 of them! (http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/about_burningman/principles.html). Thus the minimum you can contribute is 1 porta-party.

A Porta-Party is a portable party that you can impose upon (hijack) an unsuspecting, but willing(?), camp or art car or gathering of some sort. Again, supporting the little/middle man because many of us want to throw events without building a huge nightclub or constantly opening our space up to the public.

My Porta-Party will be: Early 90s Party in a Box including mixes of the rump-shakiest 90s jams, slap bracelets, star-shaped sunglasses and would contain shirt gathering appartuses, if any of you fuckers were actually going to be wearing shirts.

Antithemelements

So if you're joing us, you are encouraged to bring an antithemelement, a porta-party, or both. All ideas and declarations are welcome!

An antithemelement is a project that you are running out of or in relation to or whatever preposition to our camp or yourself or something. Share your crazy with us, whether it's in a mental or concrete stage.

My antithemelement is a project I'm working on called The Mindfuck Experiment. you can read more about it at http://themindfuckexperiment.blogspot.com. I'm trying to get at the core of the human experience where one's entire way of thinking is obliterated... what you read witness share converse view experience that completely changes the way you view the world forever. I am collecting and curating and sharing these experiences, both in the blogosphere and on the playa. Hopefully, the experiment will induce mindfucks as it collects and curates and explores them. At the burn, there will be a booth, covered in fur, most likely, where people can read all of the experiences collected to date and share their own. Mindfuck Storytime with Smores may or may not occur.

Mission Statement and Description

Stop trying to define us, ok? What the fuck is up with the theme, man? Way to box us in. Just art? Just sex workshops? Just massive logistical coordinaion that serves the whole playa? Puh-leeze. You are holding us down, themes. Antithematica strives to break free of thematic limitations and create the most glorious illogical hodge-podge of randomness you've encountered in, like, maybe a few blocks. But hear you me, this is not a hippie disorganization cop-out. We offer camp-sized support for the little man, middle man, and the uncampy. If you have a rad project that's not quite grand enough for its own camp, join us, in our random glory.

Come on, come all, behold the amazing: [these are all examples]
- Composting Armchair Fire Toilet by Agent Arbitrage. Need I say more?
- The Mindfuck Experiment: Mori, the playa's and blogosphere's premiere curator of mindfuck experiences is collecting, sharing and (mind)fucking up a storm. Give a mindfuck, take a mindfuck- stop by the furry Mindfuck Experiment booth. Don't miss Mindfuck Storytime, with S'mores.
- Viking Raids- We have hats, fur, swords, chalices filled with The Blood of Virgins, wenches, and the Fury of the Gods. Invading near you soon.
- Porta-Parties! (All members of Antithematicamp are encouraged to bring a Porta-Party and to impose it upon an unsuspecting, but willing, camp or art car) For example, Early 90s Party in a Box includes mixes of the rump-shakiest 90s jams, slap bracelets, star-shaped sunglasses and would contain shirt gathering appartuses, if any of you fuckers were actually going to be wearing shirts.
- Add add add add add add add add add add. Please. [to either comments or email, and i will post them; both ideas and confirmed contributions are welcome; see all entries tagged antithemelements and/or portaparties]

Welcome!

Welcome to Antithematica 2007.

Here, we will order the chaos just enough to draw the line between constructive chaos and being total hippies.

please please please use the comments, for blogging is a conversational medium, i swear. And email me things, at lauren.kozak@gmail.com and i will post them for all to revel in.

The man burns in 207 days...