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

[Gentry Lange]

So only one approval?

Gentry

PS I will not be at my computer any longer today, so if someone else
approves... please post it as well.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Reep [mailto:jasonr at speakeasy.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 8:19 AM
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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