Closing Down Sale

Transactionland Bristol closed - as all shops should - with a big closing down sale, hosted by shop-space art professionals Hunt & Darton (Hunt & Darton Cafe). Donning matching suits we flogged as much as we could, for whatever we could get. We actually made quite a bit of money on inflatables and shop furniture. Everything must go! It didn’t all go but a lot of it did.

Customers had to exit the shop with inflatables fully inflated (they’re inflatables, not deflatables) and signage encouraged people to leave. We ended the day with a lunging competition, in which the Jen Conway micro-lunge was invented.

Two customers came for doughnut hour and stayed all day, working out what they’d do together with any scratch winnings, and eventually donning tabards and becoming unpaid interns in the shop. They didn’t know each other before coming, but last time I checked they were still meeting up regularly.