CHALICE TO ELEUSIS
Burning Man 2023, Black Rock City
This large-scale art installation created by our production design and installation artist partners Hunter Leggitt Studio and Jonathan Berry, was paired with our “Unlocking the Mysteries” drone show to provide the audience a unique immersive art experience in the sky and on the ground.
The ways of Eleusis were lost to history; now in this moment, the past is being revealed. Encased underground and locked away in hidden libraries for nearly two thousand years, the mysteries of our cultural roots are now finally being exposed. The tides are turning and with them, the unlocking of the universal balance that exists between chaos and the cosmos. The Kykeon spills out its truth to the playa: “If You Die Before You Die, You Won’t Die, When You Die.”
Photos by Noah Ray, Robert Champion, Danny Brown, Drone Shots by Nathan McBride,
TEAM
ARTISTS: Hunter Leggitt, Jonathan Berry
BUILD TEAM: Hunter Leggitt, Jonathan Berry, Brian Pinkham, Hans Valor, Christian Butler
FABRICATION TEAM: House of Fabl, Featherbuilt
LED TEAM: Photonic Bliss
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: Carl Fosholt / Craft Engineering
PHOTOGRAPHY & DRONE VIDEO: Noah Ray, Robert Champion, Nathan McBride, Danny Brown
A.S.S. TEAM: Peter Platzgummer, Weapons Grade, JRay
SPECIAL THANKS: Lotus Art Fund, Daniela Auñón, Sierra Arts Foundation