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The Hegemonic Bar was
an interactiive performonce and installation opening and performance
were 5-10 pm March 12 1999 installation was on view from, March
13 - 31 |
The Hegemonic Bar
was an interactive performance and installation.
The opening and performance was from 5 to 10pm, March 12, 1999.
The installation continued from March 13 through 31.
Hegemony is generically defined as predominance (the greek hegemon,
meaning leader), and is generally used to signify some form of power
struggle and hierarchy, between people of one class, gender, orientation,
physiognomy, race, nationality etc, and another.
The Hegemonic Bar was fragmented into 3 separate rooms, reflecting
a generic 3 class system of lower, middle, and upper in order to
generally signify class stratification. The rooms themselves increase
in elevation as they decreased in scale, each with its appropriate
decor, music, drink, and price. As individuals entered the door,
they were classed at random, and given a proportionate amount of
money to spend at the bar appropriate to their class. The amount
of money increased as the number of individuals decreased, proportionately
from lower, to middle, to upper. The installation focused on class
hierarchy as an example of hegemony, through the form of a bar.
It self-consciously simplifies the complexities of oppression and
hegemony as a whole, 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 was 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 remained firmly
intact, and the festival remained contained within the boundaries
of the fabricated installation and the paradigms of the participants. |
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The Base Kamp is
a collaborative team of artists that produce (and have produced)
a heterogeneous body of works dealing with current theoretical
practices and thought. This team has been working with each other
on large scale projects in their own gallery and other spaces
throughout the region since 1998. These young artists have expressed
an interest to participate in a wider fine arts dialogue in and
outside of Philadelphia, by emphasizing the importance of addressing
themes that are endemic of our contemporary cultural/textual landscape.
Base Kamp is located at 723 Chestnut St.
visit Base Kamp at
www.basekamp.com |
| THE HEGEMONIC BAR
CONCEIVED, CREATED, AND PRODUCED
BY THE MEMBERS OF BASE KAMP PRESENTED BY BASE KAMP&
FRIENDS MARCH 12, 1999 |
| PRODUCED BY Scott
Rigby, David S. Dempewolf, Leigh Stevens, Christine
Stoughton, Justin Matherly, and Scott Kip |
BASE KAMP SET DESIGN &
CONSTRUCTION BY David
S. Demplewolf (foreman,) Justin Matherly, & Scott
Rigby
SET CONSTRUCTION
ASSISTANTS Leigh Stevens,
Cristine Stoughton, Scott Kip, Ryan Kattner, John
Lorenzini, & Samantha Stoughton (prop assembly)
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| LIGHTING DESIGN BY
Jeff Foye |
| GRAPHIC DESIGN BY
Scott Rigby, asst. by Justin
Matherly & Leigh Stevens |
| VIDEO CONSULTANTS
Ryan Kattner, Joe OĠneil,
& James Gaynor |
| COSTUME DESIGN Scott
Rigby |
| PERFORMED BY BASE KAMP,
Trish Yencha, Jason Yencha,
John Lorenzini, Georginia Tobiska, Ed Kazarin, Jeff
Foye, Mauro Zamora, Marc Robinson, Elizabeth Bell,
& Steffka Ammon |
| MUSIC ARRANGEMENT
Timothy Day MUSIC
DIRECTOR Leigh Dawn
Stevens |
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