I’m looking into the story theme of temporary isolated communities for archetypal patterns in expanding on burning man as archetypal.
So far I have collected the following from IMDB; Lost, Under the Dome, Between, Persons Unknown, Wayward Pines, Once Upon a Time, Eureka, Jurrasic Park, Orange is the new Black, Spark, Gilligan’s Island, The Tempest, Brigadoon…
Themes of Islands, accidental entrapment, getting lost, inventors, involuntary imprisonment as well as magic. Is this archetypal and related to mythic landscape and/or is it specific to the American Western Hero?
Reference past theme names for BRC
A list of the themes since the concept was added to the event in 1995. (Source)
2015 — Carnival of Mirrors
2014 — Caravansary
2013 — Cargo Cult
2012 — Fertility 2.0
2011 — Rites of Passage
2010 — Metropolis – The Life Of Cities
2009 — Evolution – A Tangled Bank
2008 — American Dream
2007 — The Green Man
2006 — Hope & Fear
2005 — Psyche
2004 — Vault of Heaven
2003 — Beyond Belief
2002 — The Floating World
2001 — The Seven Ages
2000 — The Body
1999 — The Wheel of Time
1998 — The Nebulous Entity
1997 — Mysteria (event ran into major logistical problems)
1996 — The Inferno
1995 — Good and Evil
Temples
2015 — The Temple of Promise
2014 — The Temple of Grace (David Best)
2013 — The Temple of Whollyness (Gregg Fleishman & the Otic Oasis Team)
2012 — The Temple of Juno (David Best)
2011 — Temple of Transition (International Arts Megacrew, Reno NV)
2010 — Temple of Flux (Rebecca Anders, Jess Hobbs and Peter (pk.) Kimelman)
2009 — Fire of Fires (Austin, Tx)
2008 — Temple of Community
2007 — Temple of Forgiveness (David Best)
2006 — Temple of Hope (Mark Grieve)
2005 — Temple of Dreams (Mark Grieve)
2004 — Temple of Stars (David Best)
2003 — Temple of Honor (David Best)
2002 — Temple of Joy (David Best)
2001 — Temple of Tears (David Best)
2000 — Temple of the Mind, first of the annual temples, by David Best in memory of Michael Hefflin
