The Stop Shopping UK Tour is a temporary traveling intervention featuring performance artists and and anti-shoppers who question and interrupt the usual patterns of consumption. Often they perform in contested public space or right in the heart of corporate chain stores, where the "shopping experience" is most ritualized. The core artists— Ange Taggart, William Talen and Andrew Lynn— intensify the secular rituals of consumption to the point of ecstatic fervour. They pray to cat food, sermonize against sweatshops, and solemnly push empty shopping trolleys down supermarket aisles. (less info)