[Seattle-editorial] FP: Whirlmart performances target Wal-marts

[sheri at speakeasy.org]

can we add a link that goes to the same place that says "Discuss Feature"....?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Reep [mailto:jasonr at speakeasy.net]
> Sent: Thursday, October 2, 2003 03:19 PM
> To: g at art13.com
> Cc: 'Editorial'
> Subject: Re: [Seattle-editorial] FP: Whirlmart performances target Wal-marts
> 
> approve!
> 
> Gentry Lange wrote:
> 
> > Title: Whirlmart performances target Wal-marts
> > Sub: MEDIA LITERACY THROUGH COUNTER CULTURE
> > 
> > <p>By Kirsten Anderberg
> > <p>Whirl-Mart is a participatory, anti-consumerism, performance trend
> > started
> >   by the <a href="http://www.breathingplanet.net/whirl">Breathing Planet
> > Troupe</a>.
> >   It is art, performance, ritual, and meditation all in one. The Whirl-Mart
> > ritual
> >   involves a group silently pushing empty shopping carts through the aisles
> > of
> >   a superstore, wearing Whirl-Mart smocks. Utilizing tactics of occupation,
> > Whirlers
> >   call this symbolic spectacle a “collective reclamation of space that is
> > otherwise
> >   only used for shopping and buying.” Averting outright protest of the
> > “emptiness
> >   of material consumption,” they instead mimic the absurd shopping PROCESS
> > instead!
> >   When asked by Wal-Mart employees what they are doing, and knowing that
> > protests
> >   are not permitted inside Wal-Mart, they respond that they are
> > participating
> >   in a “consumption awareness ritual,” confusing store employees and
> > shoppers
> >   alike. And the good news is, Whirl-Mart is coming to a superstore near
> > you!
> > <p><a
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> > ">Click
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> > 
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