Temple of Zero Gravity

an installation by Geodesic Temple at Burning Man 2022

Description

The Temple of Zero Gravity (Tozty) is the progeny of Geodesic Temple and the Zero Gravity Chair.

Tozty is composed of a single large octahedron framing rows of Zero G Chairs. The sculpture rests on a single point--one of the vertices of the octahedron. Burners who climb up the stairs inside the lower edges of the structure to access upper levels can recline on the Zero G Chairs. Those chairs are designed to alleviate some of the sensations of gravity.

Inspired by NASA's design to minimize the trauma that the thrust of a Saturn V lift-off could inflict on the body of the astronauts, Disorient's Zero G Chairs distributes the weight of the body evenly on the surface of the chair. Once you forget your body, sky's the limit.

Zero G Chairs have been part of our visual vocabulary since Disorient's inception at the very beginning of the second millennium.