The Temple of Flux was a large temporary art project created by The Flux Foundation for Burning Man, an annual gathering that takes place at Black Rock City—a temporary city erected in the Black Rock Desert in which location?
Temple of Flux The Temple of Flux was a large temporary art project created by The Flux Foundation for Burning Man 2010. The Temple was the tenth built at the festival and one of the largest. Built of white-washed wood, the design was notable for being highly abstract in nature, consisting of 5 landforms that described cave and canyon-like spaces (a reflection on the festival's theme of "Metropolis"). The piece was approximately 100'x200'x40'. Designed by Jess Hobbs, Rebecca Anders and PK (Peter Kimelman) it was built by a crew of 300 over a period of 4 months.
Art commune An art commune is a communal living situation or commune where collective art is produced as a function of the group's activities. Contemporary art communes such as Kunsthaus Tacheles and Flux Factory are scattered around the world, yet frequently aloof to widespread attention due to displeasure or discomfort with mainstream society. In the 1960s and 1970s art communes such as Friedrichshof also known as Aktionsanalytische Organisation flourished. Creative art was enthusiastically produced within such groups, which became gathering points for the counterculture movement. Although from a sociological viewpoint both the art producing and non-art producing communes of the 1970s failed to sustain themselves, owing largely to the fact that they tended to have open memberships, which eventually attracted people with social problems. These problems then spread and become too difficult for these autonomous entities to handle. Some groups however, such as the Twin Oaks Community have continued to flourish to this day.