Adding some more thoughts from your comments

Now we are all authors so you can post on this page too if you like.

Here are some further developments:

The intervention could be us doing stuff which is un-shoppingcentre-like, such as lying around on sheep skins with aromatherapy oils burning and beautiful non-muzak music, flowers, etc. (Result of coffee with Judy, Amanda, Sharon and Betty)

The bride could be dragging assorted "presents" around the shopping centre with face covered with a white cloth for anonymity. (Amanda)

We need to be clear about the purpose if we do the bride thing - do we have time? What is the purpose? Will it just piss people off (and is that what we are trying to achieve)? (Joy)

A documented walk from one end to the other is suggested. (Joy)

I like this idea - the documented walk. We could combine this with my idea of the archaeological dig - only instead of it being an archaelogical dig it could be an anthropological observation. Walking the length of the shopping centre taking notes, measuring things, taking photographs and sketching. The idea being to "discover" what shopping centres are all about, as if we are aliens to this society/culture.

Here is a reasonable site to find out about Gilbert and George:

http://www.newmediastudies.com/art/gilbert.htm This site tells you more than most of the art gallery sites, even the Tate gallery, although the Tate site does have a video of them talking about their art. Here is an excerpt from their manifesto on art:

'We want our art to speak across the barriers of knowledge directly to People about their Life and not about their knowledge of art. The 20th century has been cursed with an art that cannot be understood. The decadent artists stand for themselves and their chosen few, laughing at and dismissing the normal outsider. We say that puzzling, obscure and form-obsessed art is decadent and a cruel denial of the Life of People'.People'.

Alan Kaprow:

http://artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles2008/Articles0308/AKaprowA.html

Here is an excerpt from the site, an article by Marlena Donahue

My favorite works are the photos around the score tellingly called “Household.” As the score unfolds, a group of men, lost in an out-of-culture-in-nature ritual erect a phallic-looking mound of junk in the woods. A bit later a group of women lick strawberry jam from an old wreck of a car towed, partially smoking, by onlooker-participants. The amount of smoke, the” red tin fence” conceived to bound the event area--all this was “designed” and composed by Kaprow the artist with professional awareness of color symbolism, textural contrasts, rhythm and scale. In the Brechtian poetry of “Household’s” written directives and in the bizarre, authentic actions it elicited (captured here in photos), we see profound realities about gender, pleasure, power, ritual, and catharsis being “bodied forth.”

Carol Schneeman:

http://www.caroleeschneemann.com/

Sandra Binion:

http://sandrabinion.com/splash.html

Here are some websites about art as intervention, anti-art and anti-anti-art

http://hybrid.concordia.ca/~dart_projects/publicart/

http://www.johnfekner.com/

http://www.stuckism.com/

http://www.banksyunmasked.co.uk/

I am still no nearer to being sure about what we can do in such a limited time in the spirit of all of the above. I think we have a feeling for what it is all about, maybe I can summarise it here:

• It has some elements of interaction with the public
• It interrogates "art"
• It presents everyday reality in a totally new way
• It interrogates every day reality

What do you think - have my points summarised what we are supposed to be doing?