Last Supper 2009 Art – Ryan Brennan
Artist: Ryan Brennan
Title: Close Your Eyes and Look As Far as You can See, Chapter 4
Size: 24″ x 39″ x9″
Medium: Cinemallage, Mixed Media
These Collage works are part of a series described as Cinemallage: pieces that are simultaneously the set and viewing platform for stop animation movies. Housed within each collage is a video player displaying chapters of an imaginative tale of a young mans journey through a future utopian fantasy world where he learns how the power of imagination can make a change in the world around him. This story employs the naïve language of fairytale as a vehicle to engage several real issues in today’s society evoking hope and community in a trying time of uncertain future. Following the protagonist through this future utopian world we come across many characters who discuss various concerns we face today such as recession, credit and mortgage crisis, global warming, social inequality, and modern food production. The characters give insight into how they overcame such challenges and offer the power of imagination as a means for hope for a better future.
Bio: Ryan V. Brennan (b. Cincinnati, Ohio 1982) has exhibited internationally (France, Czech) and nationally (Brooklyn, San Francisco, Miami, Richmond). He has shown in LA Art Fair 08/09, Scope Miami and Scope Hamptons 07. He has a forth coming solo shows at Work Gallery, Brooklyn in 09 and at Manic Gallery LA in 10. Ryan Received a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center in 06 and has been featured in a variety of publications (New York Times, Beautiful Decay Magazine, LA, Daily Serving, Web Blog, The Sunday Paper, Atlanta, Biscayne Times, Miami, and Savannah Morning News, Savannah).
Last Supper 2009 Art – Rafael Rosario-Laguna
Artist: Rafael Rosario-Laguna
Title: Gutsy Series and Heart Out of Tripe
Size: Various
Medium: cast resin and tripe
The heads with tripe and the heart made out of tripe are about organs: displaced, rearranged, transformed. The Gutsy series made me think of Mary Magdalene and wonder why was she excluded from the table….? This series is my tribute to her and to those who throughout history have been inexplicably excluded from the table of life.
Bio: Rafael Rosario-Laguna lives on the Lower East Side where he finds the tripe, the eggs (chicken and quail), the cow and duck tongues that he uses to create his work in Brooklyn. He studied painting and sculpture at Escuela de Artes Visuales Lucchetti in San Juan, Puerto Rico and obtained his B.F.A from The Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C.
Last Supper 2009 Art – Sarah Walko, Malado Baldwin
Artist: Sarah Walko, Malado Baldwin
Title: A Very Long House
Size: Drawing/Painting, Sculpture, Installation, Motors
Medium: Variable
The Longhouse Project takes the idea of communal living space as a metaphor for a larger society inhabiting a shared planet. Joseph Campbell wrote that the future myth would not be about the individual or group/society… but instead a planetary family. To demonstrate this idea, our house will expand onto the walls surrounding, through links (wire/string) to wall-mounted canvas and works on paper, text, and objects- signifying the vastness of our shared community. We are creating stories for a new age, acknowledging common visions, shared goals, through this metaphor of shared space. Through the macro/micro relationships of the larger paintings and drawings to the tiny sculptures, text and assemblage, the Longhouse Project is both a calling to look closer, and see larger.
Bio: Sarah Walko was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. She attained her Master of Fine Arts from Savannah College of Art and Design and her Bachelor of Arts from University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. She is currently the Executive Director of Triangle Arts Association, a non profit arts organization in Brooklyn. She has participated in numerous artists workshops and residency programs and is Art Director, co- writer and so-editor with the independent film collective Santasombra. shown at the International Film Festivals around the world. Her last exhibition took place at 3rd Ward Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. She is currently working on new sculptures, drawings, sound design, and multimedia film projects and has exhibitions coming up in July, August and September of 2009 in Brooklyn, New York.
Malado Baldwin is a New York based painter whose work has been featured recently in Hypothetical Landscapes at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, NY; Boson Exotic, at Rupert Ravens Contemporary, NJ and 35/25: The Painting Center Invitational, NY. Baldwin’s solo exhibitions include shows at the Dumbo Arts Festival (2000) KeyHole Gallery (2005, 2006) and upcoming in a solo show at the National Art Gallery of Namibia (2010). Her work has been reviewed on artcritical.com, art21.com and Esquire Magazine among other publications. A graduate of Swarthmore College (BA, 1997) and The New York Studio School (MFA 2006), Malado Baldwin is the recipient of the Buckingham Prize (2005), the Visual Arts Foundation Grant (2007) and a nominee for the the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award.
Last Supper 2009 Art – Emma Gang
Artist: Emma Gang
Title: Eye Can Sea You, Isle of Capri 2112, 100% Junk = 100% Funk
Size: Various
Medium: Paper cut from magazines, cloth, thread… Capri Sun packages, Whole Foods bags
By using found materials and collage techniques Emma’s garments are both one of a kind and extremely delicate. By making her dresses virtually “unwearable”, her work addresses how fashion is consumed.
Bio: Emma is 14 years old and about to start high school this september. For the past two years she has taken part in the fashion design program at MAT middle school in manhattan where she always pushed herself to make her garments out of found materials.
Last Supper 2009 Art – Chris Smith
Artist: Chris Smith
Title: Road Work Ahead
Size: Various
Medium: painting on old road signs
His latest work entitled “Road Work Ahead” is an ongoing appropriated art series that explores the tension between written and non-verbal communication, utility and fashion. Smith uses discarded road signs as his initial canvas. He then carefully overlays stylized outlines of fashion-forward female figures. Strategically stripping away the paint below to reveal plywood patterns in the wood below or collaging elements on top. The canvas may become skin or clothing…effectively merging and blurring the distinction between object and subject.
Bio: Chris Smith aka “subtexture” is a Brooklyn-based pop-media designer who specializes in developing visual solutions for clients in the fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle industries. He is also an accomplished illustrator and visual artist who utilizes a wide range of media in his work—including: collage, painting, letterpress printing, and digital imaging. He also hosts events that showcase his influences and display the results of his experimentations with materials and other artists.
Last Supper 2009 Art – Mary Jeys
Artist: Brookyn Torch Committee, Mary Jeys
Title: Do You Belong on the Brooklyn Torch?
Size: fits in your wallet!
Medium: Paper and Trust
A local currency is by its nature a communal enterprise. Like the notions espoused by the “Last Supper,” Brooklyn Torch is engaged in bringing residents together in a sense of community and experimentation. Reclaiming our means of exchange is what we’re encouraging, and to infuse the interaction between us all with fun and play.
Bio: Mary Jeys is a multi-media artist and activist. Her work explores regeneration during post-destructive periods as they relate to contemporary culture. Recent projects include a radio project exploring the sounds of the stock market crash airing on Free 103.9 and a campaign-managing performance for John McClane of the Die Hard movies. Her work has been exhibited in New York, New Jersey, Texas and Ireland. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
Last Supper 2009 Art- Kerry Mansfield
Artist: Kerry Mansfield
Title: Self-Portrait project, Aftermath
Size: 12″x72″
Medium: Digital Chromagenic Print
The saying “The ends justify the means” always seemed like a thinly veiled excuse to me. Growing up I heard it used to defend fighting wars and other unsavory political maneuvers. But, a whole new significance came about when I got diagnosed with Breast Cancer at the age of 31. I didn’t feel sick at the time except for the gnawing sensation of anxiety and overwhelming fear. My Oncologist stated very clearly that in order to kill the Cancer they would have to come close to killing me along with it. My body would consume massive amounts of severely toxic substances in the sheer hope that the tumors would be transformed into dead cells. After what I experienced I truly wondered if the “treatment” had been worth the sacrifice of losing my body, my connection to the outside world, and ultimately myself. Three years later I still struggle with the idea of facing another round of treatment if the Cancer comes back. Some days I say “yes” and other days “not on your life.” But today, right now, yes, the means saved my life and transformed me into a different person. Now when I hear the classic phrase applied to the latest fiasco on the morning news I think quietly that the “excuse” worked for me too.
Bio: After getting a degree in photography from UC Berkeley, Kerry studied architecture at California College of the Arts (CCA) before returning to her passion of image making. While her medium of choice is the camera, the spaces created by man-made structures are most often her subject. Combining her two affinities was a natural progression in a seven-year project entitled “Borderline” that explores the boundary between interior and exterior spaces merging in a third plane. In 2005 her “Borderline” series came to a grinding halt due to a diagnosis of Breast Cancer. The battle to recover from the traumas of cancer focused her attentions on the nature of the physical body as a structure. Much like a hurricane ravages the landscape and the places we call home, chemotherapy ravages the body – the most fundamental of “homes”. While issues of survival become paramount, the parallels between the structures we live in and the body we live within become startlingly clear. The resulting series, “Aftermath” chronicles that period in a direct and unflinching approach to the destruction and rebirth from the hurricane of Cancer.
Last Supper 2009 Art- Sam Horine
Artist: Sam Horine
Title: Untitled
Size: (8) 11×14 prints
Medium: Digital Chromagenic Print
These photographs are part of a larger project documenting the New York City waterfront, which was once one of the busiest working waterfronts in the country. As times and economic situations shifted the waterfront and the industrial buildings along it were slowly consumed by weather, water and more recently new development projects.
Bio: Sam Horine is a Photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. He’s a regular explorer of forgotten, abandoned and under-appreciated places. In his spare time he enjoys rooftops, BBQ’s and pets. He’s a frequent contributor to the Village Voice and teaches at NYU’s SCPS. His work has been published The New York Times, NY Magazine, Eater, Frieze, Art Forum, Death & Taxes, Spin, Rolling Stone, AM New York, Il Magazine, Art in America, Impose, The L Magazine and many others. He’s also exhibited in a number of group exhibitions and recently a solo show at Brooklyn’s Garage Gallery. He find’s writing about himself in the 3rd person to be very strange.
Last Supper Food Artist 2009 – Brydee Rood
Artist: Brydee Rood
Title: I am Temporary Temple
Interpretation: I choose to create this piece entirely in red: The overall effect will be minimal. Using red LED plastic hose lights and red plastic waste bags. Red is the colour of warning and combines with underlying themes of global warming and climate change. My work encourages people to engage with and declare the phrase “I am Temporary!” to themselves when deciphering the work on the temple floor. The inherent meaning is a reflection upon the relatively short period of time in which we inhabit the earth compared to the forests, the oceans and stars which surround us. The interactive space is a red plastic warning, aglow with the impact of our consumption on resources and our waste on the environment. There are circles and cycles, rings and rims at play in the physical elements of the installation. Somehow the work is both gentle and reflective whilst embodying with complex ideas of hope and light, plastic and waste.
Bio: Growing up in Auckland and attending the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts Brydee graduated in 1999 with Bachelors in the top of the painting section. In 2001 the world was this artist’s oyster and she moved to Japan undertaking what she describes as “my own residency” – living in Japan for 2 years as a registered alien, teaching to support her studio practice and exhibiting locally. In 2003 travelling to Mexico she undertook a similar self initiated program concluding a substantial solo exhibition Fresco at Galeria de Arte Joven, Difocur – Centro Cultural Genaro Estrada, Culiacan before returning to New Zealand and completing a Masters degree in interdisciplinary practice at Elam in 2006.
Last Supper Food Artist 2009 – biG CAAKe
Food Artist: biG CAAKe (Gary Lincoff, Christopher Kennedy, Athena Kokoronis, Caroline A Woolard, Kate Cahill, and others)
Title: StrataSpore Layered Cake
Interpretation: When the largest and oldest living organism known surfaces, it manifests as a delicate mushroom no bigger than the palm of a hand. Inspired by rhizome networks as tools for bioremediation, a metaphor for the layers of unseen infrastructure below our feet, and a collaborative niche upon which to focus a collective narrative, we propose a multifaceted interactive research project that will culminate in events combining dance, education, environmental remediation and architecture. StrataSpore is a platform for collective knowledge about local NYC ecosystems and its potential for applications in urban sustainability. The platform will cultivate “spores” of knowledge by combining elements of task/performance-based art, experiential learning, and experimental design practice that implements a dialogue about unseen, natural, and man-made systems as sites for restorative sustainability applications. Our focus is directed towards the mushroom, and its potential for changing the ecology within a landscape. We invite communities and individuals to partake (with biG CAAKe) in a cross-disciplinary practice of visualization and re-interpretation of natural systems (mycology) as models for community engagement. Based on the connective function and form of mushroom ecology, StrataSpore will harness local fungi as a model and means for engagement and re-interpretation of living in urban spaces.
Bio: biG CAAKe is a cross-disciplinary collective that studies mycology as part of their practice. biG CAAKe was awarded an ILAND Research Fellowship, and are presently collaborating and studying with Mycologist, Gary Lincoff. Please visit their website to find out more about their upcoming events this fall.
Last Supper Food Artist 2009 – Lucia Madriz
Food Artist: Lucia Madriz
Title: All Under Control, 2007
Ingredients: Rice and Beans Installation
Dimensions: 1.2m x 1.2m
Interpretation: The installations made of basic grains are concerned about genetic modified food – it became clear in my country the need to implement laws to protect Costa Rica’s rural agricultural practices, biodiversity and environment. When we talk about genetic modified food we are talking about alimentary sovereignty and an economic model of dependency. The arguments on favor are weak but the money interest behind are huge. Just imagine that no seed in the world will be for free or organic.Within all this battle field of fuel crisis, environmental impacts and starving populations, the money makers are talking about Biofuel out of corn, Ethanol, without considering other ways like electricity, solar energy, recycled oil, etc. Imagine that in order to supply US use of oil you need to take 25 States to grow corn. So, where will be the space for food?It doesn’t matter how you create a business. It is all about Means to an end… We are not longer there, we cannot afford that irresponsibility any more because we might finally achieve The End.
Bio: I work in order to have the possibility to explore. I don’t consider myself as an artist that practices a specific field of art, like video, performance or painting; I like to think more of artists as explorers in many other fields than the technical: the visual, the poetic, the political. My work is concerned with the social impacts of politics and power, how we all become means to an end (nature, people, society)I am interested in environmental issues in general but slowly this focus is shifting towards the individual: how is our relationship with nature? Is there a distance between nature and our lives? Is it the result of culture or is there a real need for it?
Last Supper Food Artist 2009 – Yolanda Shoshana
Food Artist: Yolanda Shoshana, Luscious Lifestyle Diva
Title: Aphrodisiacs
Ingredients: 20-min performance, peppermints, blackberries, pears, dark chocolate bar, sweet almond oil, rose water
Interpretation: “Aphrodisiacs” is a pleasurable multi-media performance art that takes the audience into the world of sexy food. Moderne Cortisane will present four delicious food aphrodisiacs with secrets created by her made from sexy oils and food notes. The audience will smell, touch, taste, listen, and in this fete of the senses, showing them how they have means to their fingertips to create an erotic food experience.
Bio: Yolanda Shoshana aka “The Luscious Lifestyle Diva” is a personality, courtesan coach, lifestle expert, burlesque dancer, and speaker. She produces and hosts her own talk show for women in Manhattan on Channel 56, titled “The Luscious Life with Shoshi.” She is also the Founder/Head Diva for The Diva’s School for the Art of Seduction. She is a food enthusiast, clothing junkie, and chocoholic that lives and rocks it in Harlem.
Last Supper Food Artist 2009 – Ben Pinder
Food Artist: Ben Pinder
Title: Grog Bar
Ingredients: Bar, carboys, lime juice, rum, water, honey cake, hardtack, performance
Size: 7′ x 7′
A makeshift bar, created from found materials, will be built in the exhibition space. In the middle will be three large glass carboys; one filled with rum, one with water, one with lime juice. A barkeep will serve grog (water, rum, and lime juice) to visitors. Also available from the bar will be honey cake and hardtack, old nautical foods that will be passed by barmaids.
Interpretation: What are means of merriment? Gone are the swanky, exclusive clubs, he expensive dinners, eating out for every meal and the over the top drink prices. Instead, dive bars, thrift stores, staying in, and simplicity are making a comeback. When it is time for celebrating, where can we look for economic and simplistic means for merrymaking? I propose we look to the Age of Sail, where tiny ships at sea for months can serve as a microcosm for our own small world. On ships, close quarters meant people were forced to work together. Celebratory events meant receiving only extra portions of meager rations. In these tough times, we should appreciate what little we have. It’s time we remember to celebrate by enjoying the company of others. In this way are the means of merriment accessible to us all. Eat, drink, and be merry!
Bio: Ben Pinder lives with his wife Molly in Brooklyn, NY. Ben has a BFA from the University of Delaware and an MFA from the Pratt Institute, and has studied in New Zealand and Italy. Since graduating, Ben has exhibited in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Philadelphia. In 2008 he was a speaker for the symposium “The Relevance of Art in an Age of Global Warming” at the Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, Pa. This corresponded with the exhibition “Global Warming at the Icebox” where Ben also exhibited his project “Return to Symzonia”, a satiric multimedia installation created specifically for the show. Together, Ben and Molly, who graduated from the Culinary Institute of America, create videos and performances that involve preparing and serving food.
Last Supper Food Artist 2009 – Lagusta Yearwood
Food Artist: Lagusta Yearwood, Lagusta’s Luscious
Title: At Home in the World: Chocolate Words on Parchment Paper
Ingredients: Chocolate words on parchment paper, parchment paper, chocolate, tempering machine, pastry bag
Size: 5′ x 8′
Interpretation: As a food activist who earns a living through chocolate-making, I see my chocolate business as a way to express my political values. I use sustainable chocolate that is made by a small company that is committed to environmental responsibility and works directly with farmers to ensure that their cacao beans are harvested without child slavery (which is, horribly, common practice in the mainstream chocolate industry). My chocolates are all vegan, so they do not participate in the system of institutionalized cruelty that is the dairy industry. A core value of my business is that ethical and sustainable foods are more deeply nourishing than their mainstream counterparts. Poetry is a similarly transformative and nourishing art from, thus combining the two doubles their power. Manipulating the chocolate words into a nest and inviting viewers to take (and eat) words from the piece serves several purposes. Primarily it is a statement about the global home we share, and the ways ethically-produced chocolate improves it. As well, it is a comment on the flexible nature of language and poetry, and how the act of interacting with words changes our relationship to them as well as each other.
Bio: Lagusta Yearwood is a chef and chocolatier in New Paltz, New York. Her business, Lagusta’s Luscious, is divided into two parts: a small vegetarian home meal delivery service that provides handmade meals made with local organic ingredients to busy families and professionals, and Bluestocking Bonbons: a line of organic, fair-trade and vegan chocolates named for innovative women throughout history.
Last Supper Food Artist 2009 – Sweet Tooth of the Tiger
Food Artist: Tracy Candido, Sweet Tooth of the Tiger
Title: Tin Can Cake Workshop
Ingredients: Flour, Sugar, Oil, Spices, Soy Milk, Fruit
Dimensions: Varied
Interpretation: The Tin Can Cake Workshop uses equipment usually associated with survival (tin cans as bakeware and the grill in place of an oven) to make a dessert that is technically non-essential food. We not only restructure the organization of domestic space and tools, but we also expose utopian narrative so often associated with community or participatory art. By cooking sugary cake in the tin cans and not something more substantial or biologically necessary, we are creating an imaginary space considered to be harmonious and pleasurable; we are making participants happy through their sugar high instead of allowing them to focus on real, concrete aspects of survival.
Bio: Sweet Tooth of the Tiger is part entrepreneurial/d.i.y. food service project and part participatory art project that uses sugar as a medium and explores eating as social practice. The project takes the form of a bake sale that utilizes the community and public sphere as a place for eating, feeding, and talking with your mouth full. Sweet Tooth is invited by members of its community to set up a bake sale table at awesome events and engage with participants by exchanging baked goods for some money. Hopefully, participants are activated by their sugar high to engage in conversation with other participants, heightening their awareness of their own social position as well as a broadened perspective concerning their environment.
Native New Yorker Tracy Candido began Sweet Tooth of the Tiger as a way to talk with people about dessert; she had an insatiable curiosity about their food memories, family baking history, and favorite flavors of sweets. Sweet Tooth also allows Tracy to explore the theories behind food as a medium in art and culture, participatory and interactive art practice, the transaction between maker and consumer, and the idea of the reorganization of the hierarchy in domestic spaces. Tracy holds a Master’s Degree from New York University in Visual Culture Theory.
Last Supper Food Artist 2009 – Meg Duguid and Catie Olson
Food Artist: Meg Duguid and Catie Olson
Title: Pie Art
Ingredients: papier mache, paint, wood, glue, fabric, adhesives, nails
Size: 24″ diameter
Interpretation: This larger than life-sized sculptural lemon meringue pie that has a slice taken out of it is Duguid and Olson’s take on pie and high art. In the place where the slice would have been, a two-person exhibition: white walls, wood floor, and track lighting. This is their “slice of the gallery” so to speak. Duguid and Olson will show a miniature retrospective of their pie art work. Next to the Pie Art space, a sculptural pie slicer with the cut out piece of pie. The slice allows the viewer to see the internal pie layers since the slice will have “white pie cube” walls.
Creating their work using an iterative structure, Duguid and Olson let their play-on-word conversations lead their projects. Coming from the exploration of the joke and how it is broken down, our most recent set of word plays has been all about pieing. Pieing has been a staple of slapstick comedy for years, and we have been in the process of exploring that symbology to find the true and multiple meanings of pie.
Their term “pieness” refers to a more open structure that permits humor, body, and food to exist simultaneously. Although they bring different talents and experiences to the table, humor binds their minds. Placing humor within public and performative settings that keeps them on their topsy-turvy toes and continues to enthrall them with revoluntionary ideas of comedy.
Last Supper Art 2009 – Quinn Dukes
Artist: Quinn Dukes
Title: The Secrets Spoke
Medium: latex, soil seeds wooden table, 4 chairs, sound piece
The Secrets Spoke stages the modern day dining table as a meeting ground. Inevitably this rectangular wooden
object enforces physical separation and suggests emotional discord. The two opposing sculptures silently exist. The mound of soil, seeds, sprouts and monofilament offer a metaphorical display of conversation between the two. The viewer is invited to join the table and listen to the unnerving tension and subtle commonalities spoken through sound and frequency. It is only until the viewer becomes an active participant, that they can piece together the secrets spoken between the two entities. The Secrets Spoke aligns with the ideals of the “Last Supper” by staging a metaphorical banquet. The viewer is challenged at the dinner table to re-envision their relationship with art through participation.
Bio: Originally from Ohio, Dukes graduated from Watkins College of Art & Design in 2007 with a BFA in Fine Art. In an effort to further expose the community to the visual arts, Dukes aids in forming independent, emerging artist groups in the middle Tennessee state area.Human interactions within forced ecological and social scenarios are often a primary tenet within Dukes’ work. Performance provides a platform in which Dukes’ metaphorical re-interpretations of personal relationships can exist, perish, grow and morph. Dukes currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Last Supper Food Artist 2009 – Suko Presseau
Food Artist: Suko Presseau
Title: Thunder Moon Offering
Size: 24″ x 30″ x 5″
Ingredients: Archival Inkjet/Lightbox, Animal Tongue, Animal Heart, Spices
Interpretation: Thunder Moon Offering (light box) is part of a larger body of work called The New Thunder Moon in Leo. Equal parts performance, sculpture, photography, neo-pagan ritual and play, the artifacts document a gesture of appreciation and offering in honor of a bountiful harvest. The tongue and the heart symbolize the essential intention of the ritual. The tongue is the organ of tasting, talking, kissing, and the heart is of the soul, representation of life force, and love. Together, they resemble male and female genitalia, and become talismans of fertility. The light box is a single, unique object (outside the edition of prints that is also part of the series) and has an extra bit of playfulness and acknowledgment of how ritual and magic is also a part of daily life–in the fridge, next to the Chinatown grocery bag and condiments. The work relates to the idea of “Means” as they are about acknowledging the means by which I procure my food.
Bio: Suko Presseau is an artist working in Brooklyn and farming with McEnroe farms in Millerton, NY. She was born in New York, NY and recieved her BA and BFA from Hunter College. Suko has exhibited internationally and has been featured in the NY Times. Her work features food and plants as a medium.
Last Supper Food Artist 2009 – Anne Apparu
Food Artist: Anne Apparu
Title: Planted Dinner for 4
Medium: Seasonal Vegetables, Recipes, Found Wood Raised Bed, Dirt
Interpretation: How we can have clean food grown locally using found bits and pieces and saving seeds and refuse for growing and composting.
Bio: Anne Apparu cooks and puts moments together using permaculture principles in our ever-changing city.
Last Supper Food Artist 2009 – Wild Feasties
Food Artist: Wild Feasties (Logan Smith, Carissa Carman, Eliza Stamps, Emily Bolevice)
Title: Table for Two
For The Last Supper, the Wild Feasties proposes a dining experience in an unusual location, using whole food ingredients, where participants are asked to engage and follow a series of instructions and ritual to share a delectable vegetarian meal. Wild Feasties uses the routine of eating as a way of inserting instruction, interactivity, natural foods education, wild food concocting, tasting, experimenting with taste, seasoning with potions, and bringing a sense of true nourishment in a moment of chaotic artistic social affairs. If you feel good you live better. We are providing a means when no one has any. The 15 minute meals of Wild Feasties are hope, nourishment, and by no means a mean to the end, but a means to something better… a refresh… a new friend, and new taste… a wild feast!
Bio:
Wild Feasties is a loose collective of artists and naturalists who all engage with food within their creative endeavors. These endeavors may take place in the studio, in the kitchen, or out in the world. Through our events, we aim for our guests to have an artful food experience; one that stirs the senses, both literally and figuratively. Our cuisine is typically simple, with an emphasis on celebrating the incredible taste of farm fresh vegetables. Wild Feasties events emerge from the location upon which they are set. The menu is determined entirely by what the harvest brings. In early fall, the harvest menu could be: Kale Purses with seared chippoline onions and local goat cheese, Roasted leek risotto, Butternut Buttons, Finger Lakes salt potatoes
Last Supper 2009 Film- Andrea Stanislav
Director: Andrea Stanislav
Title: Blow Away
Genre: Video Art
Running Time: 4 min 32 sec
“Blow Away” is a short film yet surprising film concerning empire and Manifest Destiny, shot on location on the Bonneville Salt Flats, in Wendover Utah. Another noteworthy aspect of the film is that all of its effects were done in real time and at a massive scale, nothing of significance was done in post.
Bio
Andréa Stanislav is currently based in New York City. Selected exhibitions: Fieldgate Gallery, London, Thisisnotashop, Dublin, Jonathan Shorr Gallery, NYC, Al Sabah Gallery, Dubai, Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, and Weisman Museum, Minneapolis.
Her 2008 solo museum exhibition, River to Infinity–the Vanishing Points, showed at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Numerous grants and residency fellowships include a Jerome Fellowship, and the Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship.
2010 solo exhibitions include: Jonathan Shorr Gallery, New York, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Burnet Art Gallery, Minneapolis, and the Plains Museum of Art.
Last Supper 2009- Fiorella Castanotto
Director: Fiorella Castanotto
Title: Salt In The Scars
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 17 minutes
The mining of sea salt is one of the most important sources of income for the local inhabitants in South India. The industry is, however, also a source of violation and exploitation.
Bio
A Swiss-Italian national, Fiorella Castanotto (Lausanne, 1968) is a graduate of the University of Lausanne with a Master in history, Italian, sociology and anthropology. In the US, she completed her training in documentary filmmaking at Rockport Film College (Master’s Program). Since 2003 works as editor and filmmaker of documentaries and commissioned films.
Last Supper 2009- Zack Wilson
Director: Zack Wilson
Title: The End
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 2 min 39 sec
Zack Wilson’s “The End” is a short film on a first-responder to the tragic events on 9/11 who faces life-threatening health complications that are the result of being on-site after the World Trade Center collapse. Despite America’s promise to never forget, much of the world has already forgotten the heroes who today struggle to keep up with a long list of health issues and their inability to work and support their families. As the rest of the world moves on and insurance companies and the government ignore the very vital health and financial assistance needed, our heroes must deal with their everyday struggles that significantly hinder their capacity to provide.
Bio
I’m a filmmaker and photographer based in New York City with a strong background in dramatic narrative structure. My passion lies in illuminating underexposed topics and inciting social change through various forms of channels, including mobile and interactive platforms. I primarily focus on repurposing subjects most often covered in documentaries into fictional pieces that have a greater appeal to a wider audience.
I am obsessed with pushing visual aesthetics to their boundaries in order to create beautiful images that are rarely achieved, whether it is throwing countless adapters onto a HD camera for a full cinematic experience or ripping apart and modifying a Holga toy still film camera for an organic, antiqued aethetic. Besides my projects and contributing to various independent projects, I serve as Head of Production for Rosenblum Associates, Inc. and media consultant for Aligned Creative, LLC. I have consulted for Arts Engine, Acumen Fund, Working Films, Transient Pictures, Anonymous Content and the Media That Matters Film Festival.
Last Supper 2009- Meerkat Media Collective
Director: Meerkat Media Collective
Title: Every Thid Bite
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 9 minutes
Honeybees are responsible for pollinating every third bite of food we eat. America’s bees are at risk, though, as their number are being reduced by as much as 50% due to a mysterious phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder. We set out to see what we could learn from the folks around us, taking to the road to visit beekeepers in Manhattan, Chicago, Nantucket and Long Island. We also talked to one of the top virologists in the field, and even some grade school kids who were in the show. Along our journey, we discovered that with proper care and nutrition, bees can stay healthy- and with ther contributions to fresh, local g=food and their delicious, allergy-alleviating honey, bees can help keep us healthy, too.
Bio
The Meerkat Media Arts Collective is an interdisciplinary group of artists dedicated to making media with a non-hierarchal and inclusive creative process. We take our name from the communal, prairie-dog-like mammal of the African Grasslands, and strive to share skills and ideas across the board. The idea is to make a kind of consensus art that inspires, encourages, and motivates others to tell their own stories. Meerkat Media has produced dozens of short films featured in festivals across the country and broadcast internationally. Our feature-length documentary, Stages, won the Audience Award for Documentary and the Best Documentary Awards at the 2009 New York Latino International Film Festival.
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...