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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
DC finally gets on the flash-mob train:
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The Chicago Reader (local free Chicago paper) used to chronicle performance art that was similar several years ago. It had a lot less of the frat-boy yuppie-hours feel though.
The one I always remembered was telling 20 peole to dress in entirely black clothes (or something similar) and appear at appointed Elevated stations in the Loop to greet the first person they encountered on an El platform. At 7 AM on a Sunday morning. And give the person encountered a rose without saying a word. Then get on the next train and go home. It was supposed to me more theater of the absurd than theater of a meet-market.
No "flash", no "mob", and no wonder it never seemed like no more than 8 or 10 people could ever be organized for such random events. Still, it seems way more absurd to do such things in a solitary manner.
So screw New York "art". Chicago is where its at.
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