[Basekamp Events] Reminder Tonight 6-8pm Opening @ Basekamp - The Hegemonic Bar: Another round

[Basekamp]

The Hegemonic Bar: Another round
First enacted in 1999, The Hegemonic Bar is a social experiment and  
drinking game about class and money.

Opening Tonight, 6 - 8 PM
June 5, 2009
One night drinking and role playing event. FREE DRINKS.

Basekamp space
723 Chestnut Street, 2nd floor
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106 usa

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More information: http://basekamp.com/index.html & http://basekamp.com/bk_team/projects/hegemonicbar/index.html
Hegemony is defined as predominance, and is used to signify some form  
of power struggle and hierarchy between people of one class, gender,  
nationality etc, and another. The Hegemonic Bar is fragmented into 3  
separate rooms, reflecting a generic 3 class system of lower, middle,  
and upper in order to signify class stratification. The rooms  
themselves increase in elevation and scale, each with its appropriate  
decor, drink, and price. As individuals enter the door, they are  
classed at random, and given a proportionate amount of money to spend  
at the bar appropriate to their class. The amount of money increases  
as the number of individuals decreases, proportionately from lower, to  
middle, to upper. The installation focuses on class hierarchy as an  
example of hegemony, through the form of a bar. It self-consciously  
simplifies the complexities of oppression and hegemony for the sake of  
a participatory and partly parodic performance. The blatant reduction  
of complete representation, mixed with alcohol functions to avoid  
pretension and apprehension in conversation, while the stage is set  
for a potential saternalian role reversal and spontaneous enactments  
of class mobility. Although the role play can be seen as cathartic,  
and the suggestion of mobility as idealistic, the framed  
superstructure of the bar remains firmly intact, and the festival  
remains contained within the boundaries of the fabricated installation  
and the paradigms of the participants.

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Basekamp is an artist-group and non-commercial space, which has  
researched and co-developed interdisciplinary, self-organized art  
projects with other individuals and groups in various authorship- 
blurring configurations for the past decade. We use our Philadelphia  
space, along with temporary camps in other locations, as a home base  
to invite domestic and international collaborative groups in a joint  
experiment to develop new models of relations within overlapping art  
communities. The goal is to continue proposing collaboration as a  
practical and theoretical stance, and to participate in its evolution.
http://basekamp.com
contact +1 215-206-8176 | skype 'basekamp' | projects at basekamp.com

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