Camp

by members of Disorient

Disorient is a camp at Burning Man

2024

In 2024, Disorient is located at Esplanade & 2:15 with 200 ft. of frontage and 400 ft. deep.
- New Puff Tech Signs
- Disorient Talks with special guest Ignite Talks on Wednesday
- Unmed tent
- Supercharged Duke's
- list in progress...

2023

Main article: D23 Camp

In 2023, Disorient is located at Esplanade & 5:00 with 200 ft. of frontage and 400 ft. deep.

2022

Main article: D22 Camp

In 2022, Disorient was located at Esplanade & 6:30 with 200 ft. of frontage and 400 ft. deep. more

2021

Rebelote

2020

Camp presence on several official and non-official online platforms including Minecraft ...

and BRCVR

TOBRIT, deep playa, on Minecraft.

2019 (D19orient)

Main article: D19 Camp

In 2019 Disorient was at 2:15 & Esplanade. Camp was 200 ft. wide by 400 ft. long. more

2018 (D18orient)

In 2018 Disorient explored 3:30 & Gort. Camp was 250 ft. wide by 500 ft. long.

Pod Mahal, Disorient India's vision of a playa "condo" designed as an alternative to RVs was at the heart of camp,. Chand Baori made of 4 inward-facing series of oversized steps extended towards the front and included the Square in which latest flavors of Disorient music, sound art and interactive light installations were served. Sparkling water was available at the H2O Bar. On the other side, the U-shaped Square Shades protected tenters, Amber's Kitchen and our beautiful central lounge from the elements.

The Disorient Video Sign (a new creation by Disorient San Francisco) in which each letter is a video screen, a 1.4 million pixels installation, was a remake of the 2005 version of the original Disorient Sign, complete with the ENT part of the Sign on a new art car based on an old fire truck.

Our new DISCO Lounge spearheaded by Disorient LA provided shaded space for interactive activities such as GlamTech jewelry-making, Pornj garment exchange and ice-cold Minty Towels. A-Train's Duke's and the A-Trium which held JBB's traditional Tuesday night BBQ provided an anchor on the other side of camp.

Far from camp, in the deep playa, the Temple of Incompletion by Geodesic Temple was burned on Friday night.

(Cell):(Cell Lead)

Production: Nitro
Registration: Nat N.
Registration website: Justin D.

Urban Plan: The Eye
Shade: TBA
Power: Muvment
Water: Playa Barbie
Placement: Hruby
Volunteer Coordinator: TBA
Tool Master: Ed B.
Love Ministry: TBA
Showers: Ed B.
Kitchen: Amber
Recycling: TBA
Disengage: Ben M.
LNT: Ocean

Chand Baori: Freeman
Pod Mahal: Freeman
Disorient Video Sign and ENT art car: Bacchus, Parts, Jael, Peter D.
Frontage Helios: Jacob J.
H2O Bar: Naim B., Sasha L.
Geodesic Temple: The Eye, Ria, Lowroad
Geodesic Temple LEDs: Matt M., Gabe
DIS|CO Lounge: Nat N.
Frozen Minty Towels: Tejawe
Camp Lighting: Vadim
AV Matrix: Sofy
Sensor Gates: Sofy
Sound: Charlie Funk
Music: D'Arksy
Green Room deco: Lisa B.
Tuesday Night BBQ: Jonny Be Bad
The Duke's: A-Train
AMP'D Yoga: Donovan A.

2017 (Disor1e7t)

(Cell):(Cell Lead)

Production: Nitro
Registration: Nat N.
Registration website: Jason C.

Urban Plan: The Eye
Shade: TBA
Power: Muvment
Water: Playa Barbie
Placement: Hruby TBC and CPR
Volunteer Coordinator: TBA
Tool Master: Ed B.
Love Ministry: CPR
Showers: TBA
Kitchen: Amber
Recycling: TBA
Disengage: Sunshine
LNT: Ocean

Chand Baori: Freeman
Frontage Custom LEDs: Trammel
H2O Bar: TBA
Gon Kirin: ZparkZ
Geodesic Temple: The Eye
Geodesic Temple LEDs: Justin D.
Disorient-It-Yourself: Nat N.
Frozen Minty Towels: Tejawe
Camp Lighting: Vadim
AV Matrix: Sofy
Sound: Charlie Funk
Music: D'Arcy
The Duke's: A-Train

2016 (D16orient)

Main article: D16 Camp

Camp Lead: Disorient at Large

2015 (D15orient)

Camp Leads: Disorient at Large
Placement: Hruby
Art Director: Rebecca
Water: Playa Barbie
LNT: Ocean

2014 (D14orient)

Camp Leads: Laura and Jason
Placement: Hruby
Art Director: Rebecca
Water: Billy
Dex: Space Pirates
Shade: Joe Che
LNT: Ocean
Helios: Leo
D14 Sign: Lead: Viktor Team: Kirill, Fixxy, Michael, Savage

2013 (Disor13nt)

Camp Leads: Laura and Jason
Urban Plan "Pyramid": The Eye

2012 (D12orient)

Camp Leads: Hruby and Tawny

2011 (D1sor1ent)

Location: 2:00 corner
Camp Leads: Joe and Margaret
First year of Geodesic Temple

2010 (D1s0rient)

To celebrate Disorient's tenth year on the Playa we take the Art Car Wash, our GlamTech interactive art installation, to a whole new level. Drive through to get your mutant vehicle buffed, waxed and Pornj'd to the max. Park, connect to one of our Pods and together, let's take it up to eleven!!

CAMP

Lead: Devyn
coordinates: kitchen, meal plan, dome, rituals, power, rv placement, camp moop

Kitchen Lead: Shaggy

Domes Lead: Joe Che, Margaret, Lotta & Dome Cell

Power Lead: Muvment

Water/Port-a-Potties/RV Pumping Lead: Aura

Showers/Evap Pond/Kitchen Sink Lead: Thunderstick

ART CAR WASH

Lead: Ted
coordinates: ACW, sound, dj lineup, liquor, ACW moop

ACW Docking Stations Lead: RoBo, Time
coordinates: construction, mounting of small letters: {A,R,T,C,A,R}, certain dance poles, destination vane, lighting, work with Sound on MV audio breakouts

ACW Lighting Lead: RoBo, Time

Sound Lead: Bass, Evan

Drop Lead: AKAirways

DISENGAGE

Lead: Friar Tuck
Mistress of Moop: Ocean

NEXT DisEngage Meeting: Thursday July 29, 8pm @ Friar Tuck's apartment

2009 (Disori9nt)

In 2009, after a year deep in the city, Disorient returns to the Esplanade. Our Art Car Wash will buff your bumpers with a grooving daytime disco. Come play, learn and grow with us.

The Art Car Wash is an interactive zone for art cars, art car drivers, and anyone who wants to buff their bumpers. All art cars on the playa will be invited to drive through the "wash" where other playa participants will be waiting to greet them, mock "wash" their cars, and groove to the sound of daytime disco. The Art Car Wash will consist of two rows of platforms, creating a lane which art car drivers can pass through, and filled with spinning fuzzy playa versions of the washers and wipers found in a typical car wash. Of course they won't actually be washing the cars, but participants are welcome to bring spray bottles to mist the passengers. Ater passing through the wash, drivers will be able to park and join the fun as the music plays throughout the day. Disorient will get the wash started every day, but all other playa participants are invited to play a role with towels, misters, or just themselves.

Disorient Outpost Cell

(Cell leader: The Eye)

The role of the Disorient Outpost is to organize key elements of camp infrastructure following the urban plan so other camp projects can be deployed in a timely fashion.

Disorient Outpost cell members include:
The Eye, A-train, Elijah, Christine, Ky, Clare, Tori (plus 5 more to be assigned by the Disorient Registration cell).

Tasks of members of Disorient Outpost:
- direct and produce camp construction (7 days, 1 person)
- create Disorient Outpost camp (1 day, 7 persons)
- draw Urban Plan at scale 1 (1 day, 4 persons)
- install flag poles (1 day , 2 persons): 30 flag poles are used as guides by the vehicle placement team and as anchor points for shade structures throughout the camp.
- Disorient containers placement and unload (3 days, 2 persons): create shop and organize materials outside containers (from 2 Disorient Containers + NYC Container + PEX Container) so infrastructure, art installations and mutant vehicles can be fabricated and/or assembled.
- shopmaster (10 days, 1 person): administer the shop, keep tools and materials organized, do reno-runs for special needs and shop-related trash.
- vehicle placement (8 days, 2 persons): all vehicles in camp need to carefully be placed according to the urban plan in order to allow the camp to function.
- shade structure team (3 days, 4 persons): install and guide the installation of communal shade structure throughout the camp. Shade structures include delta shades, low shades and geodesic domes.

Art Car Wash Cell

(Cell leader: Tejawe)

The Art Car Wash is an interactive zone for art cars, art car drivers, and anyone who wants to buff their bumpers. more.

You will help build, maintain and take down Disorient’s biggest art project at Burning Man this year. Crew will be called on to keep all the parts of the wash moving smoothly and cleanly. There will be dancing and faux-cleaning, but there will also be a lot of work keeping this up and running during the hottest part of the playa day. Crew participants will need to be available DURING THE DAY to ensure the Art Car Wash runs smoothly.

Camp Cell

Cell Lead: Archer

Cells leaders
Urban Plan Layout: The Eye
RV Placement: Elijah
Container Unpacking/Packing: Ocean (deputy)
Power Ranger (Generators): Tejawe
Showers/Evap Pool: Thunderstick
RV Pumping: Aura
Zero-G Construction: ?
Dome Decoration: ?
Shade Czar: Alta (Kris)
Burn Barrel Czar: ?

We can't be a theme camp without having a camp! The camp cell will be involved in all aspects of camp organization and maintenance. Disngage will handle breakdown, but the better we start and maintain, the better we'll finish.

From camp & RV placement to generators, dome building and deco, if it is involved in the day-to-day and building of Disorient, it's your bailiwick.

Cell members will be the glue that keeps the camp running as we move from arrival through to the Burn and then Monday's Disngage. Join the Camp Cell and ensure Disorient rocks it.

DEX Cell

Cell leader TBD
DEX Transportation: Dimitri/Archer
DEX Transformation: Simas & co.
DEX Registration: Archer
Sound Czar: Clare Large
DJ Booking: Sultan
DOT (DEX Operation Team): Ted, ?

The DEX is our mobile sexy house party art car. During the day, it will provide the sound for the Art Car Wash. At night, it will prowl the playa.

If you're in the DEX cell, you'll be making sure everything is running smoothly before, during and after each playa run.

Duties include cleaning, set up, perimeter control, helping the dj and sound crew, and making sure signage and art is intact and badass. You'll be at the DEX parties, but need to be able and willing (i.e. functional) as needed to assist the DEX.

Kitchen Cell

Cell leader: Shaggy

Meal Plan Coordinator: Cherry
Kitchen Construction: Shaggy
Evap Pool: Thunderstick
Water Tank?: Aura
Trash Czar: ?
Recycling Czar: Molly Hude

While everyone in Disorient is expected to contribute to at least one campwide meal, the Kitchen Cell will ensure the kitchen is constructed and help make sure each meal runs as smooth as can be.

Kitchen Construction is exactly what it sounds like. Team members need to arrive early to build the kitchen. If the kitchen needs to expand, shrink or be redone in any way during the week, this will be your responsibility, too.

The Meal Plan team will help make sure that each meal is cooked, served and cleaned up daily. This will include maintaining the kitchen, water, trash, recycling, and serving needs. (Please note that the required participation in preparing one camp meal does not constitute or replace cell participation.)

Our trash plan is that each meal team/day will have a person (or 2) designated to trash. Each team must empty and remove all trash from the kitchen after their meal.

Each team is then responsible for packing their own trash out at the end of the week and taking all burnables to the burn barrels. The trash czar of the kitchen cell will oversee and enforce that this happens.

The recycling czar will oversee taking our cans over to camp recycle and/or our plastics to the recycle collections in Reno.

What better way to participate than make sure each Disorienter eats well because of you?

Disngage Cell

(2-3 days of commitment)
(No project leader yet - though OCEAN is the mistress of MOOP)

You are the goto team for making sure that disorient gets broken down, recycling & trash gets taken away, loaded up, cleaned up, deMooped, in the container and off the playa.

You are the DOers of all DOers. Everyone is responsible for helping get our camp packed away and cleaned up, but you'll be relied upon to really make sure it all happens.

This is one of the most important part of Disorient, and is crucial to our participation in Burning Man!

As a reward, if you stick around until the official end of Burning Man -- midnight at the end of Monday, Sept. 7 (Labor Day) -- the hot springs open up again!

Camp Registration/Dues Collection/Staffing

Annie/Dimitri/Ky

Gate Greeter Session Coordinator

Annie B.

Newbie Greeter

Jan

Medic Cell

Sol; Ocean, Jordan, Cate

2008 (Di8orient)

In 2008, Disorient seeks to pull people in before blowing them away. After focusing on making the playa at-large happy for many years, Disorient is going to Deviate, turn the music down (slightly) and edge away from the public eye. Expect the Disorient perspective to turn slightly more inward and intimate.

Our beloved Dome returns after several years! In the shade of the Dome, we’ll enjoy delicious meals, ambient sets, puddles (in zero-G and without), yoga, fog system, live music, generous light art, plush environments and yes, some electronic dance music on select occasions. It's our new more private, soothing den of iniquity.

The Dex will transform, too, becoming a radiant mobile lounge that provides awe-inspiring light sculpture to other events on the playa. It will serve as a traveling puddle, a mobile Disorient lair and a way station for our fellow Burners. Soothed and relaxed by the Dex, they can then continue on their journey on their own path or as one of us.

This year, our internal journey will be just as epic as the external. And vice versa. Welcome to Disorient 2008!

URBAN PLAN: Mandala

Camps within Disorient: The Hut of the GlamTech Warrior, Space Bass, AKAirways, Pornj Diamond Cell.

DI8ORIENT OUTPOST (SET UP) (Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday)

Cell Leader: The Eye
Disorient Outpost: The Eye (Thursday), Hiro (Thursday), Jun (Thursday), Nasa Nich (Thursday), Hot Sauce (Thursday), Lowroad (Thursday), Tejawe (Friday), Charlie with Stephan Wenta and Alan Selka (Friday), Sheri (Saturday), Jan (Saturday, JK (Saturday),Dimitri (Saturday), John and PlayaBarbie (Saturday), Martina and Horus (Saturday), Archer (Sunday), Huggie () Ocean will be on the Playa earlier.
Mission: Create basic camp infrastructure.
Tasks: Drive Dex and EyePod to the Playa, zen with the desert, interface with BM placement person, set-up Disorient Outpost, draw camp layout at scale 1, receive and place Disorient containers, assemble and install first Delta Shades, guide dome installers...

CAMP OPERATIONS (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday)

Cell Leader: Tejawe
Playa Schedule

DEX: Disorient's Mutant Vehicle

Each event will require a dedicated crew that will consist of:

• Dex Driver (1)
• sound cell (1 lead + 2 helpers, who will also serve as spotters, when on the move)
• spotters (4)
  
  

2007 (Disorie7t)

GETTING TO THE PLAYA

Current information on the New York Container

URBAN PLAN: Sign on Wheels

Camps within Disorient (Puddle thread): Pornj Lane Gang, The Hut of the GlamTech Warrior, Space Bass, Turqs and Cocos, Refuge.

SET UP (Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday)

Cell Leader: The Eye
Disorient Outpost (10 people max.): The Eye, 7, Matt, Hot Sauce, Arrow, Teagan, Tejawe(list is closed)
-Pending transfer to Weekend Arrival: Leo, Udi, Amy E.
-Pending approval: Big Dawg, Elijah, John Bargiel
-Disorientals on Other Early Arrival List: Lacey, Ocean, Mirai Star, Freeon, Erik
-Weekend Arrival list [1]candidates (pending amount of passes we receive)
Mission: Create basic camp infrastructure.
Tasks: Drive Dex and EyePod to the Playa, interface with BM placement person, set-up Disorient outpost, draw camp layout at scale 1, receive and place Disorient containers, fabricate and install camp frontage environments...
-Delta Shades - BigDawg (lead)

CAMP OPERATIONS (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday)

Cell Leader: Tejawe
Generator & Grid - main task: make sure the generators do not run out of biodiesel (add your name here)
Lounge - Playa Barbie, Mal-Qui, Jmac?
Shade and Lighting - Shaggy(add your name here)
Seating - RoBo/Shaggy (lead)
Kitchen - Jacob, Cdjilnik, Stevil & Giggity?, Jason1969?, Lacey (consultant)
Evap Pool - Elijah, Ocean, Tristen?
Showers - Ilan (lead), Czeska, elijah
MOOP Czarina (LNT PLAN) - Hot Sauce
Burn Barrels / Urns - (add your name here)
Rickshaws - Tristen (lead), Geo (sponsor), Ky (consultant)
Rickshaw/Bike Repair - Tristen's crew, Stevil Knieval, Jimmy, Jedster's crew, BigDawg, Thunderstick, Rasp, Amy E., Jester Jaimi
Photo Documentation - Charlie, Viva Smashley, Junko, Jan, shaggy
Video Documentation - Tristen, Dough, KY, Gabriel, shaggy
Audio Documentation - Mudface? Dough?

DEX and REX: Disorient's Mutant Vehicles carry the Disorient Sound System

Each event will require a dedicated crew that will consist of

• Rex/Dex Drivers (2)
• sound cell (1 lead + 2 helpers, who will also server as spotters, when on the move)
• spotters (4)

Sound System Cell

We will be there to make sure the music does not stop

• Rumble
• 7
• Mal-Qui
• Tuck
• Flynn
• Kerry
• Biggest Dawg

NIGHT: Disorient Express DJ Line-Up

Monday
Location: in camp
Manager: Geo
Crew: disorienters

Tuesday
Location: Deep Playa
Manager: TBA (add your name here if you want to help run the Disorient Express)
Crew: ? (Rex driver), ? (Dex driver), Rumble + ?? (sound), Cdjilnik (spotters) - (add your name here if you want to help run the Disorient Express)

Wednesday
Location: Temple of Breaks
Manager: Geo
Crew: ? (Rex driver), ? (Dex driver), ? + ?? (sound), ?????? (spotters) - (add your name here if you want to help run the Disorient Express)

Thursday
Location: Start at the gate ...
Manager: Matt
Crew: ? (Rex driver), ? (Dex driver), Rumble + ?? (sound), Cdjilnik (spotters) - (add your name here if you want to help run the Disorient Express)

Friday
Location: BigRigJig
Manager: FriarTuck
Crew: ? (Rex driver), ? (Dex driver), ?+?? (sound), ?????? Shaggy, Dubz, Cody, Elijah (spotters) - (add your name here if you want to help run the Disorient Express)

Saturday
Location: Man
Manager: Geo
Crew: ? (Rex driver), ? (Dex driver), Rumble + ?? (sound), Cdjilnik (spotters) - (add your name here if you want to help run the Disorient Express)

DAY:

Deep Down Disorient Daze (Cell Coordinator: RoBo)
Puddle topic: Deep Down Disorient Daze
Puddle topic: Dex Chill Daze
Description: Chill tunes, shaded puddling, ground softening and seating, ice massage, general relaxation/recharging, Yoga?

Tuesday
Location: Disorient @ 8:30 & Esplanade
Co-curators:Ocean, CDJilnik
Babylon Time: noon-6pm
Crew: RoBo and whoever is lying around

Wednesday

Location: The Green Pavillion
Curator: Friar Tuck
Bablylon Time: Approx. NOON - 6pm
Lineup:
Saadhu
Friar Tuck
Big Nick
(More TBA)
Crew: Shaggy(Rex driver), ? (Dex driver), ?+?? DUbZ(sound),  ?????? (spotters)

MBRC Tiara Making Workshop
WebCalendar: [2]
Location: Disorient camp frontage under Delta Shades
Family-friendly chenille pipe-cleaner headpiece hodown
Babylon Time: 3:30-5:30 pm

Thursday

In-Camp Greeter Training and Soirre'
Playa Time: pre-sunset (because our greeter shift starts at 8pm
Crew: ? (Rex driver), ? (Dex driver), ?+?? (sound), ?????? (spotters)

Friday
Adoration (Playa Barbie)
Support for a party following the CT ride
Curator: Mouk
Lineup:

Location: ?
Time: Rex from 3pm? to ... 6 or 7pm? Dusk? Need to leave adequate time to reposition Rex @ BigRigJig by 9.
Crew: ? (Rex driver), ? (Dex driver), Rumble + ?? (sound), ?????? (spotters)

DISNGAGE (Sunday, Monday). Every camper must help with Disngage

Disngage 2007 Puddle thread
MASTER/MISTRESS DISENGAGE: your name here
Chief 1st Quarter: your name here
Chief 2nd Quarter: Shaggy, your name here
Chief 3rd Quarter: your name here
Chief 4th Quarter: your name here
Last Disorienter standing (makes sure the camp is moopless): Ocean

2006 (Disori6nt)

URBAN PLAN: Pornj Lane

SET UP (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)
Lead: The Eye
Draw camp layout at scale 1, receive and place new Disorient containers...

CAMP OPERATIONS (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday)
Lead: Tejawe

DISORIENT EXPRESS: Disori6nt's Mutant Vehicle
Monday - Camp DJ's (camp)
Tuesday - Techno & Trance (playa) - The Eye
Wednesday - House (playa) - SingleTrack?
Thursday - Space Cowboys (playa) - Red/Arrow
Friday - Freeks (playa) - Haj/Mikio?
Saturday - House, Breaks, Techno (camp)

LNT PLAN
MOOP Czar: ?

DISNGAGE (Sunday, Monday)
Lead: Impulse

2005 (Di5orient)

In 2005, public and private areas of Disorient will be separate. The Di5orient Express will be mobile, public and festive while the camp will be unplugged, private and soothing.

URBAN PLAN
Main Street

SET UP
(Friday, Saturday, Sunday)
Lead: The Eye
Cell Members:
- Artur
- Iamtony
- Whiteheat (kitchen)
- CityJ
- JesterJaimi
- El Nino (kitchen)
- Dafong (Sunday)
- Big Dawg (Sunday)
- k8
- Tejawe
- Lowroad Saturday)
your name here

CAMP OPERATIONS
(Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday)
Lead: Tejawe
Cell Members:
- Clive
- El Nino
- k8
- your name here

DI5ORIENT EXPRESS
general view | indoor | outdoor racks | dot

DI5NGAGE
(Sunday, Monday)
Lead: Impulse
Cell Members:
- Dafong (Sunday)
- Big Dawg (Sunday)
- Haj (Monday)
- Tiggrrr (Monday)
- Sequoia (Monday)
- CityJ (Monday)
- Ellie (Monday)
- Bethann (Monday)
- Orion (Monday)
- Maria (Monday)
- El Nino (Monday)
- your name here

LNT plan

2004 (Disorien4)

Puddle used as main site, Leo's pics, photo archive (someone please make a clean list of photo links from 2004 here on the wiki)

2003 (Reorient)

Main site, photo archive, Leo's portraits, Reorient decom pix

2002 (Disorient)

Main site, Leo's portraits, slide show

2001 (Disorient)

camp map, faq, history (leo's version), etc, Leo's Mega Photo Archive, ny decom pix

prehistory

2000 (Tranquility Base)

Main site

1994-2000

Photos of Ancient History