Consume This! Exhibit2008

Presentation by

Daniel Levinson

Natalie LL Consumption Art, 1973

Consumption

• Unsustainable patterns

• Institutionalized, commercialized approach

• Food Culture, Gastro aesthetics

• Health

• World View

Featured Artist:Chris Jordan

Plastic Cups, 2008

Plastic Bags, 2007

Cans Saurat, 2007

Paper Bags, 2007

Globalization

• Fast Food Industry

• Economics over Environment

• Branding and Symbols

• Corporate Control

• Mass Media

Andy Warhol

100 cans, 1962

Ai Weiwei

Neolithic Culture Pot with Coca- Cola Logo, 1992

Consequences

• Imperialism of Global Food Market

• Over consumption

• Waste

• Health-related problems– Obesity– Anorexia– Lack of vitamins and minerals

Food Cultureand Gastro Aesthetics

Consumption Art. 2001. Joe Scorsone, Alice Drueding

Featured Artist:Claus Oldenburg

Cherry

Floorcake, 1962

Floor Burger, 1962

Apple Core, 1992

Severin Roesen

Still Life, 1860

Paul Morris

Food TetraHedron, 1994

Beata Czyowska

Making Raisins, 2007

James Joyce

Elephant, 2007

Michael England

Dissected Beauties, 2007

McDonaldization•Power

•Monopoly

•Cultural Domination

Ben Heine

2008•Networking

•Free Trade

•Environmental Degradation

•Minimal pay

•Loss of Quality

Eric Schlosser Quote from Fast Food Nation

“Nobody in the United States is forced to buy fast food. The first step toward meaningful change is by far the easiest which is to stop buying it. The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are business men. They will sell free-range, organic, grass fed hamburgers if you demand it. They will sell whatever makes a profit”

Talib Kweli“Eat to Live”

From Eardrum LP

Video

Solutions

• Conscience Consumer

• Education through Art Programming

• Community based approach

• Sustainable foods

• Knowledge is Power

• Smart Choices

Consume This ExhibitWorks Listed

• Consumption Art. 2001. Joe Scorsone, Alice Drueding• Still Life. 1860. Severin Roesen.• Dark Cones. 1964. Wayne Thiebaud• ThreeMachines.1963. Wayne Thiebaud• Cakes. 1963. Wayne Thiebaud• Floor Cake. 1962. Claes Oldenburg• Giant BLT. 1962. Claes Oldenburg• Burger. 1962. Claes Oldenburg• Roast Beef. 1999. Florent Mattei• Spoonbridge and Cherry.  1985-1988 Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen• Shuttlecock/Blueberry Pies I and II. 1999. Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen• Apple Core. 1992. Claes Oldenburg• Food Tetrahedron. 1994. Paul Morris• Company (Formerly ‘the store’ by Oldenburg 1961). 2007. Fawn Krieger • 100 cans. 1962. Andy Warhol• Consumption Art. 1973. NataliaLL• Neolithic Culture Pot with Coca Cocla Logo. 1992. Ai Weiwei• Honeycomb. 2007. Melinda Smith• Making Raisins. 2007. Beata Czyzowska• Aqui Hay Bimbo. 2008. ArtFangs • Dissected Beauties. 2007. Michael England • Elephant. 2007. James Joyce• McDonaldization. 2008. Ben Heine • OverconsuMption. 2008. Ben Heine• Plastic Cups. 2008. Chris Jordan• Paper Bags. 2007. Chris Jordan• Cans Seurat. 2007. Chris Jordan• Plastic Bottles. 2008. Chris Jordan• Eat to Live. 2007. Talib Kweli• Global Consumption. 2006. konstantinek

Works Cited

• Dark cones, • www.artknowledgenews.com/Wayne_Thiebaud.html• Eat To Live, 2007. Talib Kweli.

http://www.elyrics.net/read/t/talib-kweli-lyrics/eat-to-live-lyrics.html• Michel Delville. Food, Poetry, and the Aesthetics of Consumption. Routledge. 2008. • Schlosser, Eric. "Fast Food Nation". Haroer Collins Publishers, 2002.• http://benheine.deviantart.com/art/Over-Consumption-75971042• http://benheine.deviantart.com/art/McDonaldization-70437174• Cake image• http://academics.smcvt.edu/gblasdel/slides%20ar333/webpages/c.%20oldenburg,%20floor

%20cake.htm• Apple• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Apple_Claes_Oldenburg.JPG• Cherry• http://www.artsconnected.org/artsnetmn/whatsart/oldenb5.html• Burger• http://www2.skolenettet.no/kunstweb/skulptur/galleri/oldenburg.html• BLT• http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Austin_Museum_of_Art_Extraordinary.html• Music Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_d1fD_lH0g