On October 23, 1999, at 2pm, a small emancipatory band of selfless revolutionaries under the strategic direction of Torpor Vigil Industries will enter the south doors of the Toronto Eaton Centre near the intersection of Queen Street and Yonge Street in order to rescue this structure from its corporate enslavement and proclaim it Surreal Estate One.
The occupying force - comprised of TVI agents and members of both the International Bureau of Recordist Investigation and the Cult of Po-Po - will be unarmed and the invasion will be executed with no more physical force than it takes to budge a revolving door. The occupation is expected to be met with little resistance by leaders of the ruling regime of Parasitic Consumerism who've held such structures hostage far too long and who know THEIR TIME IS UP.
Flyers and other forms of propaganda proclaiming the occupation and subsequent transformation of the site will be presented by the "Torpor Vigilantes" to consumers, tourists, and employees of what had been known as the Toronto Eaton Centre but which will presently bear the provisional name Max 4S-10C, in honour of the painter whose landscapes have inspired the vision for its new interior.
Max Ernst's forest and sea paintings depict a marvellous hyperlucid realm of impossible splendour - impossible, that is, until closing time on the 23rd of October when an old bastion of compulsive consumerism and dominator ideals is metamorphosed into a verdant paradise of the imagination.
Surreal Estate One: primordial and uncivilized; otherworldly yet sumptuously tellurian; lush and inviting but not without an atmosphere of menace; with flora and fauna from a resplendent nightmare; hypersensuous, deliriously erotic, holy to the Gaian max; a botanical opulence inhabited by - among other marvellous beasts - one of the strangest and loveliest creatures ever imagined: You.