Alien carnival, experience an art feast in Golmud Gobi

In 2019, artists used Gobi stones, rotten wood and flames to build a utopia of "alien civilization" in the wilderness deep in the Gobi Desert in Golmud, Qinghai. That is the planet NODE. There are no shackles of steel and concrete here, only the wind and sand of Kunlun Mountains and the carnival under the starry sky. The soul of NODE Planet lies in its subversive artistic expression. The artist used the mythical beast "Dijiang" in Kunlun mythology as the prototype and created a giant installation with a wooden structure. It is both an active spiritual totem and a witness to its ephemeral existence. On the last day of the event, this huge structure was reduced to ashes in flames, just like the phoenix nirvana in mythology, which brought the carnival to a climax and also symbolized mankind's eternal awe of nature. In addition, the stones in the river valley are piled up into giant symbols, and real-life art installations such as the Gobi Library and film projection use the most primitive materials and the most avant-garde concepts to construct an immersive scene of "interstellar travel." During the day, the NODE planet is a testing ground for body and will. Participants hiked through the Gobi Desert, meditated in the desert, or released their energy at a pool party; the creative market and book corner became a station for the collision of ideas. When night falls, the Gobi Desert transforms into a surreal stage: electronic music festivals and folk songs and dances interweave, and a fleet of thousands of drones lights up the night sky, using technological light and shadow to write a poem of "airspace landscaping" in the desert. The charm of the NODE planet lies precisely in its transience. After five days of carnival, all traces of human activities were wiped out by the Gobi desert sands. Only the burning totem memory of Dijiang River and the "Heritage of Love" charity project buried by the participants became the continuation of this dream.