Rebecca Sheir's piece about the Consume®econnection Project is going to be aired this afternoon on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. In New York that's WNYC 93.9 FM from 4-6pm (slotted to be on around 4:40pm). You can find your local station here.
A year-long effort to meet the laborers and craftsmen who make anything and everything I buy.
My work frequently pushes for deliberate, considered, personal, buying habits. On the event of my 30th birthday, I launched into an experiment devised to put my money where my mouth is: become aware of my own dependence on blind consumption, and gain an understanding of the people and processes involved in making commodities available to me.
My intention is not neccessarily to change what I purchase, but to change my level of awareness and participation in the acts. I'm as interested in knowing where a large, mass-produced object comes from as I am in meeting local entrepreneurs and artists. It's about understanding the labor and encountering the people that make my life, my consumer life anyway, possible.
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