ObsessiveConsumption.com
Title
Obsessive Consumption
Description
Obsessive Consumption wants to know what you buy. Obsessive Consumption wants to know what you owe. Obsessive Consumption conforms to the cliche that shopping is a favorite past time of society. Obsessive Consumption is repulsed and grossly fascinated by the branding of consumer culture. It wants to eat the entire bag of candy and enjoy the sickness that it feels and hour later. It doesn't want to be an outside critical observer. It wants to be an active participant. Obsessive Consumption wants to be serious. Obsessive Consumption wants to have fun. Obsessive Consumption wants to document and create from experiences through this over stimulating, nauseating world of consumer culture. Obsessive Consumption was created by Kate Bingaman to showcase her love/hate relationship with money, shopping, branding, credit cards, celebrity, advertising and marketing. The work is inspired by the ever ubiquitous, generic, delicate, sometimes stomachache inducing credit card statement, craft as activism, and general consumerism. She created Obsessive Consumption in 2002 when she decided that she was going to not only document all of her purchases, but to also create a brand out of the process to package and promote. obsessiveconsumption.com was launched in early 2003 to bring her documentation to a larger audience. She documented all of her purchases for 28 months. The documentation started on January 22nd, 2002 and ended on April 22nd, 2004. She is currently hand drawing all of her credit card statements until they are paid off and also spends her time consuming, documenting and making. Kate is a 28 year old Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Mississippi State University.
Full Tank Magazine/Montreal Mirror/Slash Magazine/Money Magazine/The Omaha Weekly Reader/YEN/Canadian Globe and Mail/Lincoln Journal Star/Marmalade/Juicy/Review/Orion/The Washington Times/Yahoo Site of the Day/USA Today Site of the Day/Diarist Best Experimental Journal
Obsessive Consumption version three was built at the end of 2005 in nearly valid xhtml and css. The photo to the left was taken by Matthew Mahon for Money Magazine.
Languages
English
