Disorient

Disorient is a camp at Burning Man

Disorient has been a camp at Burning Man since 2001.

D25

In 2025 our camp was located at Esplanade & 2:45. Land dimensions were 200 ft. wide by 400 ft. deep.
We were 223 campers. Camp planning discussion took place on Disorient Discord.

Building on the success of D24's 'Spinal Tarp', D25's Urban Plan 'Full Send' retained the central spinal element, made of four pairs of containers. Disorientations enabled campers to contribute to D25 by becoming active participants.

For D25, efficiency improvements were realized by rotating central containers 90 degrees, allowing easier access during alpha, burn week, and disengage.

This new arrangement also enabled more efficient use of our lot, allowing the inclusion of the Phoenix Sauna, Martin's D25 Photo Studio, Fire Art installation, increased shade coverage for camper's quarters, and an enclosed space for Duke's.

We placed our new Bedouin Tent directly behind Club House, filled with cushions and our dining tables. This space became a central gathering point for campers to commune, rest and dance. It also hosted the Disorient Talks throughout the week.

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Directly adjacent to the Bedouin Tent was our new 20'x20' Kitchen Tentology and our Trash Fence Palace, which hosted the Tea House.

To accommodate the new CoSign configuration, Club House was rotated 36 degrees, and thickness of the two adjoining CoSign-supporting walls reduced. Continuing with evolution, D25's CoSign, facing Esplanade, expanded to spell DiS.

The DJ booth was also repositioned to face camp, inviting campers to gather in the Bedouin Tent and Club House.

The Disorient It Yourself (DIY) area, located between two shipping containers, hosted a fully supplied Pornj Clothing Exchange and a die sublimation station where participants could decorate (preferably synthetic) clothing items with an array of designs from the Disorient Graphics collection.

Our pentagonal Club House, filled this year with the sound of an incredibly on-point Void system, hosted many events, dozens of DJs as well as a daily midday iteration of Amp'd Yoga.

D25 identity

Disorient is a collective

Disorient is a sound, visual and performance art collective. We create art projects and art installations with hardware including wood, scaffolding, palette rack, containers, recycled materials, your body, Raspberry Pi, geodesic domes, inflatable structures, video, repurposed objects, black lights and vehicles. We develop software for our installations.

Our guiding principles are outlined in the Disorient Model and in the Political Economy of Disorient. Disorient is an open creative platform powered by love.

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  D-Shirts over the years

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  D24 Lantern

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  Pornj Star 2009, NYC

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  Let's Go Camping

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  Video Sign ADXiX

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  CCXiii, 2025

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  CoSign at D22

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Our contribution to the vernacular includes Pornj and GlamTech.

Disorient ecosystem

When we are not on the Playa, we organize events, retreats and happenings. Funds raised during those events help support our art projects on and off playa. Following our economic model, 100% of profit is reinvested in Disorient.

Those include Country Club (since 2011) upstate New York, Bedouin Tech (2014-2018) in the desert of Dubai and Fun Tsang (since 2016) on the beach of a tiny uninhabited tropical island of Hong Kong. Those outdoor camping retreats last several days and are aligned with the Burning Man ethos. In September 2021 we organized the first Burning Mantap in Bali, Indonesia.

Our first fundraisers outside the US happened in 2009 in Brazil and Argentina

Thousands of DOers (DisOrienters) have camped with Disorient at Burning Man since 2001. About half of those campers are in the US. The other half is distributed in dozens of other countries. We use Discord and other platforms to stay connected.

Too Much Is Rarely Enough.