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Not exactly a scathing rebuke of malls and our culture of mega-store consumerism, as I think the author would like us to believe. What with quotes such as, "I cannot emphasize enough that the entire endeavor was done out of a compassion to understand the mall more and life as a shopper." and "The Apartment in the Mall was never intended to be specifically an ‘art’ piece...", you would think the author was writing about some other couple that moved into a mall. Those quotes appear on the couple's Trummerkind site detailing their experiences living in a mall, in thier own words. But that was months ago--like, 10 whole months. Now it has meaning! Pfft. This article reads like an attempt to apply deep meaning to a funny, but otherwise meaningless act of vandalism. Still, I don't doubt that Michael and Adriana now believe their actions at the time were heartfelt and pure, or that they had the intent to open some minds and begin an honest discussion about wasted spaces, but when a 4-week stunt turns into a 4 year game of hide-and-seek, a protest it does not necessarily make. Just as an article searching for meaning in one without does not a lead story on Salon make.
