As a steward of Bombay Beach’s evolving identity, The Institute facilitates residencies, interdisciplinary conferences, and public programming that bridge local and global communities. Through art, philosophy, and radical hospitality, we create a space where artists, thinkers, and visionaries redefine the possible. In a secluded part of the desert, we seek to create an alternate reality where radical thought flourishes and theory transforms into praxis through lived experience and real-world application.

 

The Institute is a driving force behind the facilitation of community organizing and the Bombay Beach hivemind, creating a living archive of our resources, innovations, and programming for our local community and the world at large. Through engagement with artists and thinkers, The Institute cultivates theoretical frameworks and practical experiments to reimagine societal structures in a place defined by environmental catastrophe and socioeconomic collapse.