Last Supper 2010 – Performance – Rob Davidson/Faux Pas
Artist: Rob Davidson/Faux Pas
Title: Coming Out (of the phone booth)
Length: 5 minutes x 2
Medium: Performance for 2 dancers
Artist Statement:
Coming Out (of the phone booth) is part burlesque strip-tease, to help the audience release their inner comic hero selves, and part sensual, meditative duet that begins as a gnarled ball of humanity and then reveals two individuals which part and make their way through the crowd. The piece re-imagines dance as poetic activism for issues such as self acceptance, social equality, sexuality, and gender dysphoria. Each individual prepares for their journey to find a tangible expression of who they are.
Bios:
Rob Davidson/Faux Pas is a former member of the Seán Curran Company and founder of KineticArchitecture. He studied on scholarship at Pennsylvania Ballet and Giordano/Jazz Dance Chicago. Notable venues: NY Fringe, Philly Fringe, DNA, Galapagos and the upcoming NY Burlesque Festival. He will also appear in a new show by Justin Bond at The Kitchen this fall. “Whether it was his perky black tutu or nipple rings, Davidson’s plumage did the trick.” -NY Times. The Esther Williams of Modern Dance (translation: Butoh & Burlesque have baby!) is loved by children and cats.
Sara Mulry/Simone L’Mew is a dancer/company manager for KineticArchitecture. She has studied extensively at the Paul Taylor studio, with Christine Wright, and Sean Curran. She studied theatre with Dambra Sabato, and recently co-produced/directed ‘The Wolf From Recovery Ohio’ at The Kraine Theatre. She has appeared in productions at DNA, Greenspace, The Rover SOHO, Philly Fringe and Burlesque Book Club. A Renaissance woman of sorts-she is also a singer, musician, poet, and jewelry maker. In her spare time, she is a professional massage therapist, nude model, and nanny. Much love to her mentor and partner Mr. Davidson.
Last Supper 2010 – Performance – Chloë Bass
photo credit: Simon Baltovic
Artist: Chloë Bass
Title: Process Dinner
Length: 30 minutes
Medium: Interactive Performance Dinner for 8 guests
Artist Statement:
Process Dinner emphasizes both the individual and communal nature of sharing a meal. The meal served consists of a single recipe, broken down into its intermediate steps. For each guest, the meal is “self made”: guests are asked to enjoy the individual flavors, textures, and sensations of each step of the recipe, almost as if they are tasting as they “go along” with cooking. The meal is also shared as a social experience, and through the descriptions that each individual guest offers about the bites he or she has received. It is this shared descriptive aspect that asks each guest to make a name for him or herself; it’s an opportunity to become a critic. The meal invites all guests to become observed performers.
Bio:
Chloë Bass is an artist and community organizer based in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Recent performances have been seen at FIGMENT on Governors Island, Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art Atrium, and in various urban public spaces. She spent the spring developing a new performance installation, Mnemonic 1.0, for the Bushwhack Series at the Bushwick Starr. She is a core organizer for Arts in Bushwick (Bushwick Open Studios, SITE Festival, BETA Spaces). BA in Theater Studies, Yale University; MFA Candidate in Performance & Interactive Media Arts, Brooklyn College.
Last Supper 2010- Call for Performance
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.
Performance Curator’s Statement by Erik Fabian
“My name is Hov’, OH, H-to-the-O-V” – Jay-Z
The performance program at this year’s Last Supper Festival explores name-making and the public-self that is self-made (and performed) in relation to the crowd. Make a name for yourself…at the Last Supper.
It is the opening night of the 6th annual Last Supper Festival, a community-based, mix media art and food festival. There are hundreds of people packed into the gallery…eating food art, watching films, circling installations, examining photographs. Artists, foodies, farmers, architects, and more mingle. The chit-chat is about the “self-made”, DIY, homesteading, and sustainable food production. This crowd is your stage…how will you make a name for yourself tonight? Will you make space, spread a rumor, or work the room? Think: coming out parties, profiles of the self-made man, pit fighting champions, debutant balls, political polling, black sheep, feats of strength, Iron Chef, Trump Tower, your-name-in-lights, aliases, nicknames, name-dropping, myth-making, buzz campaigns, and the glory of winning competitions for growing the largest watermelon.
In a world of noise, create a signal, define yourself, go for glory, write the legend, leave a legacy, make your name with one performance. It’s is your last chance, it is the Last Supper.
Details:
Seeking performance submissions for opening night of the Last Supper Festival that explore name-making and the public self that is made (and performed) in relation to the crowd.
- Any performance medium is accepted (performance art, theater, dance, conceptual actions, durational stuff, clown, whatever…)
- Length is ideally a 1 to 10 minute intervention but a well thought out durational or longer conceptual piece would be considered.
- Should be completely self-contained and need no technical support (we might not even be able to turn off the lights).
- Should be designed to be performed amidst/with-in/in-relation to a crowd of people.
Submission Information: Online Submissions due 7/23/2010
Upload submission materials here: Drop.io
Email Erik Fabian: Performance@Lambastic.com
Make sure to include in your submission materials:
Artist Name
Performance Title
Length
Equipment/Supplies needed (see above)
Short Bio
jpg Headshot (2″x3″ 300dpi) for catalogue
jpg of Performance or sketch (300 dpi) for catalogue
Link to Artist’s website
Permissions to show in Festival and Press/Print Materials
And your response to the following:
1) A one paragraph description of what will happen during your
proposed performance. (Explain specifically how you will physically
relate to the crowd.)
2) A one paragraph description of how you see your performance
conceptually tying into the notion of “making a name for yourself” as
well as the larger festival theme of the “self-made”
The Last Supper Film Festival is an indoor-outdoor film, food, music and art festival occuring in Brooklyn during the crux of seasonal change in September. Referencing the celebratory nature of the feast, and the symposium of genres, the festival kindles the creative miasma sparked by NY's peppery fall and inventive community.The last exposure to outdoor interaction before the shearing winter...