The Barbie Liberation Organization or BLO, sponsored by RTMark, are a group of artists and activists involved in culture jamming. They gained notoriety in 1993 by switching the voice boxes on talking G.I. Joes and Barbie dolls. The BLO performed “surgery” on a reported 300–500 dolls and then returned them
Tag: reverseconsumption
If you have ever taken notice of the sample pictures placed in the variety of frames in your local Target, you will notice that the pictures are generally “picture perfect,” black and white, flawless couples or families embracing each other with their warm impeccable smiles. This idea of capturing “unrealistic”
For my reverse consumption project in Art and Crime, I chose to play off the body image depicted with dolls. There is no question these dolls influence what young children, especially girls, believe about what a proper body image is. As you can see, I chose to “mock” (for lack
Sorry the pictures are so big. Anyways, for my reverse consumption project I went to Charlotte Russe and purchased the least inexpensive t-shirt I could find, I am a broke college student after all. I then wanted to go to Target and put the shirt in the women’s clothing section