Last Supper 2010- Call for Writing

Last Supper 2010 Curatorial Theme: “Self-Made” 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.

Writing Curator’s Statement by Douglas Turner & Tryn Collins

We are living at the edge of postmodernity, the end of an era–the seed of preconceived notions and ideas.  And we are writing a new chapter, a new era; the beginning of an as of yet defined anthology.  Nevertheless, with our attachment to ideas, every attempt to define our notion of Now feels like unstable shifting ground.  The shape of our cultural surroundings is so hard to grasp.  Is it a matter of perspective?  Are we indeed leaving or arriving?  Are we closing out an era or forging a new one?  Has it always felt this way?  By seeing the shape of the self as fluid and moving: an impossible shape, the definition of the writer-self is experiencing a transformational process.  Nothing exists that the self cannot access.  In a time of expansive growth, the all encompassing technology and connectedness makes the collective self consequently indefinable.  Does this make for an even more feverish strive for private/individual self?  In the Creative Process, self-made connotes a volitional choice to become something, and that sense of determination involves sacrifice–to shed something in order to make room for the harvest; to leave an old perception or idea behind.  We give ourselves to a cleared space for creativity, a moment in the writing process when the words and structure of story seemingly come from nowhere.  Our perspective would then shift from the position of the Individual to a larger one of the Whole.  Should then our idea of self (private/individual) bend sacrificially to the collective?  The creative process then would have a beginning, no end, only an ever-expanding desire to create. There is infinite potential that the individual has access to, and every great writer has tapped into that source.  Understanding culture as object and subject of influence, the intersecting of community and art are momentous to burgeoning culture.  When we cling to preconceived ideas and styles we mimic; satirically creating art–instead of letting go, honoring what came before, and carrying on the tradition of creating something new.  The writers of modernity and postmodernity have thoroughly explored the role of the individual in all sorts of ways and with good reason.  Can we, and if so, how will we determine the end of an era and the beginning of something new?  What are we contributing to the Creative Process, a process that is consequently indefinable? We seek to curate a group of writers who are exemplars of selflessly expressing the autonomy of the creative process, as a means of becoming self-made.

Information for Online Submissions:

Digital version of written work, Writer’s Name, Title of piece, Genre (poetry, short story? etc), Length, Availability to attend opening, Short Bio, Interpretation (how work relates to theme of show), jpg Headshot (2″x3” jpg 300 dpi), Link to writer’s website, Permissions to publish piece.

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email Douglas Turner & Tryn Collins:  Writing@Lambastic.com

Jul 01, 2010 | Categories: Writing | Comments Off