<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><img height="390" width="157" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" style="float: right; " src="cid:10319B7D-5952-431C-9E7A-A7E5C07409E9"></span>The Hegemonic Bar: </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;">Another round</span></font></i></span></font></div><div><div><i>First enacted in 1999, The Hegemonic Bar is a social experiment and drinking game about class and money.</i></div></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b>Opening Tonight, 6 - 8 PM</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">June 5, 2009</span></font></div><div>One night drinking and role playing event. <b>FREE DRINKS.</b></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b>Basekamp space</b></span></font></div><div>723 Chestnut Street, 2nd floor</div><div>Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106 usa</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div><b>More information<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b>: </b><a href="http://basekamp.com/index.html">http://basekamp.com/index.html</a> &<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://basekamp.com/bk_team/projects/hegemonicbar/index.html" target="_blank">http://basekamp.com/bk_team/projects/hegemonicbar/index.html</a></span></span></span></b></div><div><div><div><i>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.</i></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div><div>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.</div><div><a href="http://basekamp.com">http://basekamp.com</a></div><div>contact +1 215-206-8176 | skype 'basekamp' | <a href="mailto:projects@basekamp.com">projects@basekamp.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>