Sunday, August 17, 2008

I Live, Like, IN the Mall!

I don't know how I missed this. A happy couple up in Providence, Rhode Island battled the local Providence Place Mall in a most unusual way: by moving into it. And so performance artist Adriana Yoto and her scholar husband Michael Townsend lived in a forgotten storage unit for four years. And there weren't even any zombies rampaging outside either. They did it as a form of protest, but it quickly turned into a fascinating sociological study of mall culture and why people go to them.

You want to find out more? Try their own website, as well as the Salon.com article about them. Good for them!

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