[Seattle-editorial] Whirl-Mart Performances Target Wal-Marts

[sheelanagig at juno.com]

Totally incidental, but I think the title would be cleaner as
"Whirl-Mart Performances Target Wal-Marts"
Also attached are some Whirl-Mart pics I got off of other indymedia sites
via www.breathingplanet.net/whirl -
1 = Austin, TX
2 = Troy, NY
3 = Albany, NY

Enjoy!
kirst

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 22:59:20 -0700 "Gentry Lange" <g at art13.com> writes:
> 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
>
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=34056&group=webc
ast
> ">Click
>   to read the full story</a>
> 
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