Coffee Shop - Joel Martinez
CD Store - Eina Rekhi
Video Store - Jason Richards
Photography Gallery - Jessica Shea, Matthew Walters & Karen Sinnett
Pissing Pole-Doggie Shop - Zoe Snyder
Thank You. Please Come Again!
Retail Cargo Cult
Geelong After Dark
Friday 6th May 2016
(6.00-9.30pm)
Nos.116, 126a, 127, 130, 139, 142, 142a, 147, 152, 159
Moorabool Street Geelong, Australia
Thank you. Please come again!
Retail Cargo Cult embodies the imminence of a new age for
Geelong, with the arrival of long awaited cargo.
Geelong shoppers have been dispossessed by the closure of
independent shops and miss their retail therapy. Retail Cargo Cult recuperates
the ecstatic experience of shopping, invoking the new age with shrines
installed in the doorways of Geelong’s vanished businesses during Geelong After
Dark.
Government initiatives have failed to bring back independent
shops – only Retail Cargo Cult can save us. If proper ceremonies are performed
and shrines created, riches and abundance will come. Replicas and tokens, made
by the people, will bring shops overflowing with consumer goods.
Retail Cargo Cult shrines are magical objects constructed
from the raw materials of consumerism that endow them with sympathetic magic.
As ritualistic objects they invoke the forces of cargo at Geelong After Dark.
Retail Cargo Cult Agents
David Dellafiora & Teresa Lawrence
Geelong After Dark is a City of Greater Geelong & Diversitat project
Thank you. Please come again! is supported by Cloverdale Community Centre & Geelong After Dark
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