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Whirl-Mart Ritual Resistance

Date:
Friday, November 28, 2014
Time:
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Event Type:
Party/Street Party
Organizer/Author:
Seante'
Location Details:
Walmrt
8400 Edgewater Dr Oakland, CA 94621

Whirl-Mart is a culture jamming exercise that combines meditation, protest and art.

Supposed shoppers slowly push empty shopping carts silently through store aisles. Participants will not purchase anything and seek to form a lengthy chain of non-shoppers, continually weaving and "whirling" through a maze of store aisles for up to an hour at a time. Participants describe their actions as "a collective reclamation of space that is otherwise only used for buying and selling". Whirl-Marters seek to mimic and mock what they perceive as the absurdity of the shopping process.

Help be identified by your fellow whirlers by wearing a white shirt.
Added to the calendar on Wed, Nov 26, 2014 11:50PM
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