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DESCRIPTION:'Whirl-Mart' is an experiment that can be approached from several different 
 angles. As a work of art, it examines and blurs the boundaries that have 
 been established between performance art, protest, living sculpture, and 
 direct action. As an action of resistance, it utilizes the power of silence 
 in occupying private consumer-dominated space with a symbolic spectacle. As 
 a ceremony, it is a counter-ritual to shopping that transforms the 
 super-store and its wall-to-wall array of products into a surreal and 
 colorful cathedral.\n\nThe ritual consists of interested humans arriving at 
 a predetermined Wal-Mart at 12 noon on the first Sunday of every month and 
 proceeding to push empty shopping carts slowly and silently through the 
 aisles. Eventually, all of the participants locate one another and form a 
 single-file chain of anti-shoppers which weaves, wanders, and whirls 
 throughout the different departments of the store for about an hour. 
 Overall, it is a soothing and fun experience for the actors, and perhaps a 
 memorable spectacle for shoppers. It is a collective reclamation of space 
 that is otherwise only used for buying and selling. It is a symbolic 
 display of the will to resist the capitalist ideology. And, it is a living, 
 breathing, moving, evolving sculpture.   \n\nfor more info: 
 http://www.breathingplanet.net/whirl/whirlmart_statement.html\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2002/04/02/5943.php
SUMMARY:1st bay area whirl-mart
LOCATION:Pleasanton Wal-Mart\n\n4501 Rosewood Dr\nPleasanton, CA\nUS\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2002/04/02/5943.php
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