TLS 2010 Fundraiser Campaign on Kickstarter

Help us reach our fundraising goal of $3000 on Kickstarter!

Why Support the Last Supper Festival?

-Great Incentives at any price

-Our unique approach to multi-sensory curation builds a stronger community of creative ideas sharing

-Sensory stimuli are an integral part of an aesthetic life, it’s what makes us human!

-Help foster new ways of eating, seeing, listening, smelling, creating, consuming and storytelling

-We don’t create in a bubble. We’re a talented, motivated group of individuals with a creative conscience. We are committed to contextualizing our work within the shifting needs of our current environment, economy, socio-political and technological atmosphere.

What you support:

The Last Supper is a multimedia, project-based collaborative festival that addresses the act of consumption. Viewing the creative process as a cyclical, communally interactive conversation between media, it is a non-profit benefit event for the Food Bank of New York City. The Last Supper is an indoor-outdoor salon of ideas occurring in NYC during the crux of seasonal change at the end of September. As a feast for the senses and a symposium of genres, the gathering kindles the creative miasma infused by the city’s autumnal shift, harvesting the cornucopia of media in our own backyard and sparking an atmosphere for open dialog and collaboration. Short films and works from emerging directors and artists, edible installations from creative culinarians, performance, design projects, writing and music from several local bands and DJ’s will grace the dinner table. Each year, the show sparks dialog about consumption by curating projects based on a theme of global and local import. This year, more than 50 creators and volunteers will discuss ideas about “Self-Made” with an audience of peers to evaluate our state of consumption. The decay of Summer and the emergence of Winter will be celebrated at the Sixth annual Last Supper.

Interactive Values:

While pop culture and the internet cut civilization away from physical communication, and towards ethereal relationships; distinctions between media blur along with personal and communal identity. Making with a creative conscience, we hope to extol and critique these global paradigm shifts, while sharing our local narrative. The conceptual content of our work blends preconceptions, genres, social strata and partnerships within the community. Last Supper is an experiment and engagement in social interaction, energy consumption, and dialog. Piquing all the senses, the show produces a multi-dimensional experience that allows access to attendees from varying backgrounds to reinterpret the way they consume media, interact with one-another and share. Tactics that engage the audience in an environmental spectrum of intellectual discourse (the gallery), performative story telling (the screen), to corporeal conversation (the disco) are shared with comfort (the meal). Establishing a tradition of invention, Last Supper values the sharing of ideas at one table and the home as microcosm for urban life.

Creative Practice:

Lambastic is a creative datum line and resource organization of/for a community of multi-disciplinary artists.  A multi-sensory approach to curating allows for a more nuanced approach to storytelling, sensory aesthetics, and explorations in creative memory.  A cross section of talent from varying professional backgrounds, and emerging ideas (with an emphasis on criticism and productive dialog), our collective promotes open access to studio practice from different genres. To contextualize ones work and ideas within the local and global community is a contribution to its growth, and an engagement of social currents. A salon series of public critiques throughout the year, connector events between organizations, projects, and artists, dinner lecture series, educational programming and an annual exposition: community building is a vital function of our creative practice. The realization of collaborative endeavors with volunteerism and professional support builds momentum and strengthens responsibility for projects and their environments.

2010 Curatorial Theme:

The Last Supper Salon 2010 will explore the creative individual as a self-made person and provocateur of social change.  In contrast to the male robber baron of our industrial age, the contemporary version of the ‘self-made man’ is an artist of any gender, discipline, representation; someone who is cross-cultural and cross-national, and someone tapped in to the individual as part of the border-less, collective wisdom created by open source ideas sharing.  Humanity is transforming it’s identity to fit the current needs of a new economy (ie-’green’ or ‘technology’ professions) and socio-political environment (waning natural resources, environmental disasters).  While artists have historically had the freedom to shed their outward appearance according to personal inquiry, the public now has a unique opportunity to molt old identities for new visions.  Using an experimental, multi-sensory, collaborative approach, we hope to critique the way we produce the goods and services that define our generation (as representations of ourselves), the way we consume media, products and our environment, and the way open dialog, DIY and technology promotes self-made identity prototypes.

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Last Supper Tropical Masquerade

-Tropical treats served up hot all night
-Masquerade madness with music by the BLANKS DJs
-Libations from Brooklyn Brewery
-Multi-media art show and short films

Flesh out your flamboyant, tropical desires at the Last Supper Salon’s Tropical Sensory Masquerade. Lambastic partners with BLANKS NYC & The Commons Brooklyn to present a Tropical Sensory Masquerade featuring exotic new media art, lush film projections, colorful cuisine, sultry libations from Brooklyn Brewery, and moist sounds for your rollicking rump. Powwow with artists, DJs, curators and producers for the Last Supper 2010- bring your ideas for projects, and your power animal energy to get down with your creative creature cohorts. Help support our multi-sensory vision by attending this buck-wild fundraiser for the big show in September- if you can’t make it, please consider donating to the cause via Kickstarter.

http://www.Lambastic.com/
http://www.blanksnyc.com/
http://www.thecommonsbrooklyn.org/

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Last Supper 2010 Call to Creators

Last Supper Call to Artists 6/28/2010 – 7/23/2010

Calling all artists, filmmakers, food artists, bands, DJs, chefs, performers, designers, new media artists, writers – Submit your work!

“Self-Made” Curatorial Statement by Coralina Meyer

The Last Supper Salon 2010 will explore the creative individual as a self-made person and provocateur of social change.  In contrast to the male robber baron of our industrial age, the contemporary version of the ‘self-made man’ is an artist of any gender, discipline; someone who is cross-cultural and cross-national, and someone tapped in to the individual as part of the border-less, collective wisdom created by open source ideas sharing.  Humanity is transforming it’s identity to fit the current needs of a new economy, and socio-political environment. Using an experimental, multi-sensory, collaborative approach, we hope to critique the way we produce the goods and services that define our generation, the way we consume media, products and our environment, and the way open dialog, DIY and technology promotes self-made identity prototypes.

Deadline: Friday, July 23, 2010

Format: Online Submissions

Film: Film@Lambastic.com

Art: Art@Lambastic.com

Music: Music@Lambastic.com

Food Art: Food@Lambastic.com

Performance: Performance@Lambastic.com

Writing: Writing@Lambastic.com

New Media: Media@Lambastic.com

Other Genres, Questions, Volunteer Opportunities: Lambastic@gmail.com

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