Consumption Junction

Consumption Junction is about the paradoxical intersection of environmentally sustainable activity and daily acts of consumption.

Authored by James Voorhies

Columbus College of Art & Design, Bureau for Open Culture, 2007
52 pages
8.25 x 5 inches

Designed by Nate Padavick

Contributions by Amy Chan, Guy Debord, Design Management AS, Dan Graham, Komar & Melamid, Learning Group, Nicola López, Scott Massey, Miss Rockaway Armada, Ester Partegás, Tim Rietenbach, 5.5 Designers

Made possible with funding and staff of Columbus College of Art & Design with grants from Greater Columbus Arts Council and the Ohio Arts Council; realized within my responsibilities as Director of Exhibitions at Columbus College of Art & Design

The works of art gathered together for this exhibition and book shared a conceptual language addresses a range of topics from excessive spending, pollution, and urban infrastructure to alternative transportation, suburban sprawl, and recycling. They offered cultural criticisms, sometimes whimsical, imaginative alternatives set somewhere between reality and fiction. In each cases the work suggested a need for a worldwide environmental movement that responds to the ecologically precarious moment. 

PDF, Exhibition