History

A Brief History of Disorient

- Late 2000, a small group of veteran burners with art and music backgrounds get together in a loft downtown NYC to create a camp at BM
- Desire to combine community and art collaboration
- Leo suggests we call the camp Disorient
- 2001 First Disorient camp at BM, about 50 campers - success
- First Disorient fundraisers in NYC, small parties that evolve into 1000+ events throughout the aughties
- D1 was revelatory. We decide to do Disorient camp again at BM 2002
- 2003: 10:00 corner
- 2004: interest in house music, Large Sound Camp area on 10:00. First Disorient Sign 83’ long
- 2005 interest in the Deep Playa. Yearning for mobility. Created the Disorient Express, DEX. DIS Sign mounted on a side of the DEX, ORIENT Sign on pallet rack in camp. Disorienting to have our camp frontage roaming around BRC and deep playa.
- 2011 2:00 corner, First Geodesic Temple defines a 100’x 100’ dance floor. Organizing parties to raise fundraisers for 10 years. First Country Club camp out upstate NY, now a yearly week-long event.
- 2014 First Bedouin Tech camp out in Dubai
- 2016 First Fun Tsang camp out in Hong Kong
- 2017 First Geodesic Temple burn on playa
- 2018 Temple of Incompletion, first large burn at BM
- 2019 Temple of Brad Pitt
- 2021 First Burning Mantap, a Disorient Unplugged beach event in Bali

Disorient is a training camp. We turn campers into DOers. They learn with us then, if they wish, go out in the world to create their own camps. Dozens of BM camps were started by Disorient veterans.