Weird America - Helco at Burning Man 1996
VIDEO: In 1996 "HELL" was the theme adopted by the Burning Man event, and Helco formed part of Burning Man's annual themed art pageant. Kal Spelletich and his art group The Seemen were the creators of a satanic tableau where big business reigned and met Burning Man head-on. Highlighting the pyro extravaganza was John Law's heroic leap from the top of a blazing inferno crashing down through a neon sculpture.
Scott Beale at Laughing Squid also has details concerning a new Burning Man development.
Video and Music by Chuck Cirino
weird tags: Burning Man, John Law, Kal Spelletich, Scott Beale, The Seemen, video
January 16th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
[…] So all this talk of John Law and Burning Man history has prompted Chuck Cirino to dig through his massive Burning Man video archives. He just posted an amazing video of the SEEMEN performance of HELCO from Burning Man 1996 that was produced by Kal Spelletich. This was a legendary point on the Burning Man timeline and one of the highlights of John Law’s involvement with the event, taking place the last year he was an organizer, right before all “hell broke loose”. tags: Burning Man (T) , video (T) , SEEMEN (T) , Chuck Cirino (T) , Kal Spelletich (T) , John Law (T) , Weird America (T) , HELCO (T) submit to StumbleUpon Comments RSS feed | Trackback URL […]
January 23rd, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Totally awesome! With all the recent legal activity, someone needs to do a command peformance of this now more than ever!
January 28th, 2007 at 10:31 am
spectacle for groundlings….
March 10th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
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August 17th, 2007 at 10:12 am
[…] No começo, o Burning Man era completamente anárquico, Mad Max no deserto. Tinha gente que trazia catapultas gigantescas capazes de arremessar um Fusca. E em 1996 houve o épico da HELCO tower, em que o Diabo comprava o Burning Man. Foi uma ópera que se extendeu por uma semana até o gran finale, com os robôs infernais dos Seemen e John Law pulando de um prédio em chamas. Ele é o cara vestido de cowboy neste vídeo sensacional da última noite da encenação. O diabo é o famoso e terrível Flash Hopkins, um cara, digamos, um pouco fora de contato com a realidade. […]