From Brain-tanning to Burning Man

What happens to ephemeral art created specifically for a TAZ (Temporary Autonomous Zone) -- particularly one like Burning Man, in which temporality and destruction/transformation by fire are explicitly celebrated?  Is the "real world," the larger culture of the USA, mostly dead and unsuitable for hosting this art? And what about the Hopi and the dude who brain-tans? Read a transcription of Gregory Pleshaw's recent lecture at Erowid, "Gone to Croatoan: Contemporary Art on the Playa," on Lucid Dreaming. Playa photo by Miss Brown.