[Imc] Whirl-Mart THIS SUNDAY (fwd)

[Paul Kotheimer]

Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 03:48:54 -0000
From: breathing planet <breathingplanet at hotmail.com>
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Subject: Whirl-Mart THIS SUNDAY

Hello friends...

This is a message to remind you that there will be a Whirl-Mart 
action-performance this Sunday June 3, 2001 at Wal-Mart in Latham Farms.  
You are invited to take part in the silent ritual.  There is no real 
estimate on length, but people should begin to show up around 12 noon.  
There is not meeting point or anything like that.....  just grab a cart and 
begin to anti-shop.....   Whirl-Mart will activate itself as people group 
together throughout the store and form single-file lines.

want more info....read on.
if not perhaps, we shall see you there.



What is Whirl-mart?
Whirl-Mart is an anti-shopping spectacle during which a local 
breathingplanet troupe gathers and silently pushes empty shopping carts 
through the aisles of a local superstore.
Why Whirl-Mart?
Whirl-Mart was conceived as a way to poetically and peacefully state our 
collective disrespect for the capitalist world order and to display our 
opposition to the values of competition, domination, and exploitation 
imposed upon us by consumer culture.
Why Wal-Mart?
This art/action is not meant to be an attack specifically on the Wal-Mart 
Corporation.  Rather, breathingplanet.net has chosen the superstore because 
it is symbolic both of the religious faith modern humans invest in material 
consumption, and of the seemingly inescapable corporate superstucture in 
which we live.
Religion?
Unlike most protests, Whirl-Mart is silent and ritualistic.  It may not even 
be perceived as a protest at all.  In the religion of consumerism, the 
superstore is the cathedral, the shoppers are the congregation, and the 
products are icons of desire.  Our anti-shopping ceremony is intended to 
emphasize this reality.


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