Description: Mant Farm - An homage to Earth’s first metropolis, the Mant Farm provides the Playa with a dramatic, immersive, interactive vertical maze where you can explore the concepts of maturation, citizenship, nostalgia, scale, and systems of communities – in a working ant farm built to human scale. Burning Man 2010 - Metropolis - Art Grant Honorarium Recipient
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Follow the tunnels or choose your own way – hide and seek, find and lose, work and play, colonize! The Mant Farm is your childhood Uncle Milton ant farm: with period signage;
scaffolding, barriers, and ladders; nets with vivid tunnels cut out for observations; spaces to form and explore community; and an observation platform over 30 feet high! An homage to Earth’s first metropolis, the Mant Farm provides the playa with a dramatic, immersive, interactive vertical maze where you can explore the concepts of maturation, citizenship, nostalgia, scale, and systems of communities – in a working ant farm built to human scale.
The new GIANT Mant Farm, a big 40’ high by 60’ wide enclosure which includes a “MANT FARM SAFETY HANDBOOK” and a “Guarantee” for a generous supply of live Mants.