"Performance art" hits Wal-Mart

Redandblack.com (The University of Georgia student paper) ^ | December 08, 2003 | AARON JOLLAY

[Wumpus Hunter]

I think this whole "Performance art" thing is a hoot, but it would be annoying to store management and other shoppers.

There are 2 pictures at the source.

[Moose4]

Translation: We university students are soooooo much smarter than the rest of you rural Wal-Mart-shopping Oconee County hicks, so therefore we're going to disrupt your shopping because we want to.

God save us from arrogant liberal art majors.

}:-)4

[aardvark1]

Art? Not.

Nothing more than anarchy.

[camle]

a bunch of shallow miscreants getting college credit for acting like eight year old brats.

I don't know who is worse, the students, or the college that gives them credit for antics like this.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Sounds like another episode of "Bad Performance Art", hosted by Leonard Pinth-Garnell.

[G.Mason]

Obviously these kids are in need of a two week course on survival.

Like being dropped off in some desolate spot in Arizona with a penknife, one canteen of water, a sleeping bag, and a book of their choice.

[Fresh Wind]

Classic shoplifting strategy: Create a diversion and while the security people are occupied, fill your pockets with DVD's.

[niteowl77]

It is a testament to the good nature of average Americans that people who have to work for a living do not kick the ever-loving crap out of supercilious snots who have enough spare time to lecture the "proletariat" about ethics.

[Aquinasfan]

"Wal-Mart is the New America ... united we stand, 24 hours a day, consume, consume, consume," said James Kubie, a sophomore from Dunwoody and an organizer of the performance.

There's a reason why the word "sophmoric" is in the dictionary.

The dirty little secret of performance artists everywhere: money from home. Get a job, dudes!

The fact that I'm a Christian prevents me from saying what I really feel.

[Kenton]

Silly hippies. Oh well, I was that age once...

[Tijeras_Slim]

Q: How do you get an Art Major off your porch?

A: Pay them for the pizza.

[Wilhelm Tell]

"We just wanted something we could do at Wal-Mart to bring the youth culture and the art world into kinda like a fluorescent-lit wasteland," he said.

Could this "artist" be able to make a florescent lightbulb? Explain how one works? Give a five-minute lecture on electricity? Why is light from an energy-efficient florescent bulb somehow offensive, while noise pollution from a boom-box (one expression of youth "culture") is okay? Ayn Rand had a lot of interesting and amusing things to say about pretentious fools who think they know everything and criticize everything, while if society had to rely on their knowledge, we would be back in the stone age.

[Damocles]

Lovely...

Participants and spectators begin to leave the electronics department after a fashion show presented by University students enrolled in a digital media class was broken up by Wal-Mart security and managers. (Sara Hopkins * The Red & Black)

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Janet Gossage (right), assistant manager at the Super Wal-Mart on Epps Bridge Road, attempts to disperse the crowd that gathered Friday for an unexpected fashion show. (Sara Hopkins * The Red & Black)

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[backhoe]

Garbage
In
Garbage
Out

[NoClones]

Toss the lot in jail - put them to useful work...
...supposedly a lot of homeless need shelter - these twinkies ought to do something constructive for a change!

[Freebird Forever]

Assembling all of these snot-nosed little twits and administering a public flogging......Now there's some performance art I'd enjoy!

[CindyDawg]

I guess I was too busy studying and working after class in college. I missed play time. What was the purpose here? All I read from the article was that a bunch of kids dressed up and acted silly at Walmarts. It sounds like it might have been fun but academic?

[AlbertWang]

"Would you try feminism even once?" Gazaway asked Wal-Mart customers with confused looks on their faces.



Does any else remember Ali G's questions about "experimenting with feminism"? Looks like these kids have seen and copied the skit.

[I still care]

Exactly. First thing I noticed, they did this in the electronics department with all the DVDs and videos. Why there? Why not, say, in the canned goods isle? There is more room there.

I don't blame the manager for having a fit.

[E Rocc]

I don't blame the manager for having a fit.

True enough, though when I consider Wally-world's refusal to sell even labeled "explicit lyrics" CDs while its trying to run other vendors out of business, I lose a lot of sympathy for the entity.

-Eric