TLS Farms/Chefs 2010- Aneikit Bonnel
Artist: A. BONNEL
Project Title: MAKING MR. SOFTEE
Size: APPROX 4’ X 5’ PROJECTION
Cost: $1.75 PER CONE AFTER THE FIRST 100 CONES
Medium: INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE VIDEO
Ingredients: VOLUNTEERS/ICE CREAM CONES
Bio:
A. BONNEL is a Brooklyn-based artist working primarily with video. She conceives each project as a singularity that can be presented in a number of ways i.e. installation, performance, etc., depending on environment. Her subjects are diverse and sometimes reactive whether it is to other artworks or to ideologies. Thematically, she explores fantasies of death, psychological theories, and the metaphysical, but she also enjoys using Pop and Punk elements of humor and irreverence in relation to topics that she considers superficial such as mass consumption and commercialized sex. Drawing from classic and experimental filmmaking, she embraces current and past technologies and challenges herself to combine disparate media into traditional forms [text + performance + video = drama; video + headphones + booth = peepshow; architecture + video + podcast = public art/sculpture].
Interpretation:
MAKING MR. SOFTEE is an interactive performance/video projection that hyperbolizes the act of absolute consumption. Amidst a social setting, volunteers are videotaped within a specified frame as they devour ice cream cones of various flavors and toppings. The live video is projected in real time to emphasize the tactile acts of licking and mastication, commenting on the obsessive and sensual nature of eating. A simple pleasure-desire, to eat ice cream, is hampered by choice [which flavor? what toppings?]. That choice is further complicated by the submission/permission to be recorded in a specified construct [the frame]. Finally, the volunteer is temporally faced with the iconic self in the immediate presentation of his own consumption thereby presenting identity as action.
MAKING MR. SOFTEE embodies the “making of” approach to DIY creation. Part of a larger work, The Last Supper provides the opportune place and time to record footage needed for a future, edited piece wherein the recorded images are sped up, reversed, and sequenced so as to appear that the cone is eaten and regurgitated in an endless, yet ever-varying loop.
The Last Supper Salon
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 in 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, new media, 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 at 3rd Ward Brooklyn at 6pm on September 18th, 2010.
Last Supper 2010 – New Media Art – Jason Huff
Artist: Jason Huff
Title: Snow Globe (accessed March, 25 2010)
Size: 5.5” x 5.5”
Medium: Glass, Water, Rapid Prototyped Letters, Acetate
Artist Statement:
Snow Globe (accessed March, 25 2010) is a readymade snow globe with self-defining contents. Printed inside are all 419 characters and three photos that define a snow globe on Wikipedia. This snow globe acts as a unique object that has encapsulated its own definition from an online dynamic source, forever freezing an instance of its mutating online identity.
Bio:
Jason Huff was born in the Atlanta suburbs in 1981. In 2004, he received his BFA in New Media at the University of Georgia. Upcoming shows include Pixilerations in downtown Providence, RI and Americana at the Gelman Gallery at the RISD Museum in Providence, RI. His recent project AutoSummarize was blogged about in The New Yorker. He currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island where he is completing his MFA in Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design (2011).
Last Supper 2010 – New Media Art – David Abir
Artist: David Abir
Title: Intersect No.2
Date: 2010
Size: Dimensions variable
Medium: Mdf, Plywood, Self-powered speakers, iPod, Custom programmable LED, Acrylic paint
Artist Statement:
As opposed to the other works in the Tekrar project, Intersect No. 2 brings the events and effects of the series to a smaller scale, making it possible for this interaction of light and sound and space on a smaller, economical scale. The sculpture embraces modern technology, utilizing (iPods) and programmable LED lights while, at the same time, allowing for natural algorithms to create and recreate the subtle variant patterns–rather than computer software doing so– offering the viewer an organic and relatable experience.
Bio:
David Abir is an Iranian-American sculptor working with light and sound in large-scale, self-contained environments and sculptures, creating work that oscillates between the physical and the spiritual. His current project entitled Tekrar was first commissioned in 2005 for a group show in San Sebastian, curated by Octavia Zaya. The sculpture was then further refined in 2007 when exhibited at the Aldridge Museum of Contemporary Art. Tekrar Level Four (2009) will be presented as a permanent installation in Istanbul for the 2011 Istanbul Biennial. In addition to his own work, David has also produced music and sound installations in collaboration with several artists, including Doug Aitken, Alfredo Jaar, Shirin Neshat and Shahzia Sikander. He lives and works in New York City.
The Last Supper Festival
Saturday, September 18, 2010
6pm-2am
195 Morgan Ave, Bushwick (L Train to Grand)
Advanced Tickets: $10 w/ 3 or more canned food donations,
or $15 w/o on September 18th
*Proceeds Benefit The Food Bank for NYC
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, new media, 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.
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TLS Symposium/Good Meet
September 22, 2009 6pm – 10pm
SALT Art Space NYC 1160Broadway, 5th Floor goodmeet.org
The Last Supper Festival is partnering with Double Happiness LLC and SALT artspace to present a discussion on “Identifying Means” on Tuesday, September 22nd, from 6-10pm. The discussion, on the evening of the autumn equinox, will feature three short talks and then a series of facilitated discussions to help the participants identify the means that are available but might go unnoticed.
Presenters include: NSA: “No Standing Anytime” (Christina Kral & Adriana Valdez Young)
Tickets: $10 RSVP – http://saltthelastsupper.eventbrite.com/
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...