Last Supper Catalog 2009 by Last Supper

Design by Erika Schneider 2008 www.erikaschneider.com

“Means”

2009

The Last Supper is a multimedia, community and project-based collaborative festival that addresses the act of consumption and benefits the Food Bank for NYC. The creative process as a cyclical, communally interactive conversation between media. The 5th annual Last Supper is an indoor-outdoor salon of ideas celebrating the crux of seasonal change at the end of September. A feast for the senses, the gathering kindles the creative miasma infused by the NYC’s autumnal shift, harvests the cornucopia of emerging talent in our own backyard and sparks an atmosphere for open dialog and collaboration. More than 50 artists, filmmakers, food artists, bands, DJs, Writers, Performers, and Designers will discuss ideas about “Means” with an audience of peers to evaluate our state of consumption.

Curatorial Theme: Means In an atmosphere of political and economic crisis, along with

dwindling resources, our precarious societal climate demands a review of the way we consume locally and globally. An artist’s resource, whether medium, message, or muse, is the voice of its cultural language. Creating is making something from nothing. Consuming, like all laws of matter, transforms the states of products. As creators, we must cherish this cyclical process and consider its affect. Repurposing traditional practice to our contemporary needs and desires has become vital to both aesthetic and functional life. Whether in the form of urban victory gardens, reclaimed handmade objects as art and design, DIY techniques, prevailing independent films and bands, the self-sustaining artist is a simultaneously complex, imperfect, and idyllic model for contemporary life. The Last Supper’s 2009 salon is the creative dialog about consumption where Means as motive, economy of Means, ways and Means, and Means of production are all tools for storytelling.

History Created five years ago by artist/architect Coralina Meyer as an intimate word-of-mouth backyard dinner discussion series, The Last Supper has evolved organically into a gathering of over 800 attendees. A multimedia experience that challenges the traditional methods of exhibiting and viewing artwork, the salon presents a range of artistic mediums from local emerging talent (creative disciples) at one dinner table to stimulate all five senses. This unique approach to curation blurs creative boundaries, and facilitates an exchange and connection between various artists, communities and audiences. “..a feast for all five senses that will likely leave you with an unbuttoned fly.” -Village Voice “Will edible art give ‘artsy fartsy’ a new meaning?” -NY Magazine www.lambastic.com www.lastsuppersalon.blogspot.com Lambastic@gmail.com Last Supper on Facebook, Myspace, Going, Yelp

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Simon Lange BIO Born and raised in Key West FL, Simon moved to Brooklyn in 2004 to work on his resume as a chef. In the past five years he became the Head Chef and co-owner of Apartment 138 located on Smith St. in Cobble Hill. By doing so he joined a powerhouse group of native Brooklyn restaurateur and bar/club owners that run Camp (Carrol Gardens), Bar 4 (Park Slope), Public Assembly (Williamsburg), Cebu Bistro (Bayridge), and Matchless (Greenpoint). His most recent project has been the conception and development of the new kitchen in Matchless. As a group they are always looking for new projects and may even have some in the works. So keep your ears posted and taste buds sharp because they aren’t done yet!

Anne Apparu BIO I cook and put moments together using permaculture principles in

our ever changing city.

INTERPRETATION How we can have clean food grown locally using found bits and pieces and saving seeds and refuse for growing and composting.

Bowie + Eve & Eliza Myrie Bowie + Eve BIO Eve + Bowie are artists who live and work in New York City. Through provocative work, conversation and private thought we cause people to question and expand their perceptions with the firm belief that challenging the way people think can bring about social awareness and change. Eliza Myrie BIO Eliza Myrie is a New York transplant making a way in Chicago as an MFA candidate at Northwestern University. Through observation and consideration of urban space my work attempts to strip down and reorganize icons and cultural expectations to begin conversations regarding social realities of our contemporary world.

INTERPRETATION This cultural moment has provided us with a new awareness of how we shelter ourselves, in large part because what was assumed for many has been taken away; tent cities, foreclosure and homelessness are more pressing than ever. Additionally it magnifies the experience of those who have been dealing with transient and inadequate housing for much longer than the media frenzied natural disasters we are all so familiar with. Housing ghettos are representative of people finding a way within their “means”. What does it mean to re-image something regarded in the cultural imagination as sweet and innocent? What about the more sinister side of the “Hansel and Gretel” fable or the implications surrounding shelter/home as sustenance?

Title: Edible Ghetto/Ghetto Edibles Ingredients: Sugar

Title: Planted dinner for 4 Ingredients: Seasonal vegetables, recipes, found wood raised bed, dirt Price: $90

Meg Duguid + Catie Olson BIO Creating our work using an iterative structure, we let our play-onword conversations lead our 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. INTERPRETATION For the Last Supper we would like to create a sculpture that we mail to you

Lagusta Yearwood 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. More information can be found atlagusta.wordpress.com or lagustasluscious.com.

from Chicago. This sculpture work, entitled Pie Art, is our take on pie and high art. Essentially we will be creating a larger-than life-sized sculptural lemon meringue pie that has a slice cut out of it. This pie sculpture will approximately be two and a half times larger in scale than an average sized pie. We expect the diameter to be about 24” across. In the place where the slice would have been will be our two-person exhibition, white walls, a wood floor and track lighting—our “Slice of Gallery” so to speak. In our Pie Gallery, Meg and Catie will show a miniature retrospective of their pie art work and perhaps pie art that that we have not yet created. Next to the Pie Art space we will have a sculptural pie slicer with the cut out piece of lemon meringue pie on it. The slice will allow the viewer to see the internal pie layers since the cut out slice portion will have “white pie cube” walls. The piece itself should sit on to of its mailing crate but will need to be displayed on a pedestal as well.

INTERPRETATION As a food activist who earns a living through chocolate-making, I see my

Title: Pie Art Ingredients: Papier mache, paint, wood, glue, fabric, adhesives, nails Size: 24” diameter Price: $300

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’ Price: Custom orders please contact www.lagustasluscious.com

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 form, 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.

Suko Presseau 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 received 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. INTERPRETATION Thunder Moon Offering (light box) is part of a larger body of work titled 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 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 acknowledgement of how ritual and magic is also 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.

Title: Thunder Moon Offering Ingredients: Archival inkjet/lightbox, animal tongue, animal heart, spices Size: 24” x 30” x 5” Price: $120

Lucia Madriz BIO I work in order to have the possibility to explore. I don’t consider myself 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? INTERPRETATION The installations made of basic grains are concerned about genetically modi-

fied 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 genetically modified food we are talking about alimentary sovereignty and an economic model of dependency. The arguments in 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 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.

Title: All under Control, 2007 Ingredients: Rice and Beans installation Size: 1.2 m x 1.2 m Price: $6,000

Tracy Candido- Sweet Tooth of the Tiger 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 present 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. INTERPRETATION The Tin Can Cake Workshop uses equipment usually associated with survival

(tin cans as bakeware and the electric stove 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 the 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.

Title: Tin Can Cake Workshop Ingredients: Food/flour, sugar, oil, spices, soy milk Size: Varied

Wild Feasties 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 . INTERPRETATION 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, is hope, nourishment and by no means a mean to the end, but a means to something better…a refresh…a new friend, a new taste…a wild feast!

Title: Wild Feasties Ingredients: Kale, leeks, potatoes, chippoline onions, mixed, seared, and salted media

biG CAAKe

Yolanda Shoshana 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. www.strataspore.com

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.

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BIO Yolanda Shoshana aka “The Luscious Lifestyle Diva” is a personality, courtesan coach, lifestyle 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. www.

INTERPRETATION “Aphrodisiacs” is pleasurable multimedia performance art that takes the au-

dience into the world of sexy food. Moderne Courtisane will present four delicious food aphrodisiacs with scents 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 at their fingertips to create an erotic food experience.

Title: Aphrodisiacs Ingredients: Performance, peppermints, blackberries, pears, dark chocolate bar, sweet almond oil, rose water

Title: StrataSpore Layered cake Ingredients: Food

Christina Kelly BIO Christina Kelly is a Brooklyn based visual artist and film/video editor. She has a BA in English Literature from Barnard College (’93) and an MFA in Film/Video from Bard (’00). As an editor her feature film credits include Off Duty (dir. Vijay Mathew), A Four Letter Word (dir. Casper Andreas) and Church and State (dir. Eric Weber) and Betweeen Love and Goodbye (dir Casper Andreas). She also edited Describe Video, a single channel video installation by Judy Radul, and worked as an assistant editor on Ramin Bahrani’s films Man Push Cart and Chop Shop. She is a frequent contributor to the PBS program In the Life. Christina’s recently exhibited work includes “ChandelAir Flight 69” (2005), “You Burn Me” (2006), “Gowanus Oyster Shrines” (2008), and “Pay Dirt Transforming the Economy” (2009). This summer, as part of her Maize Field project she is planting three sister’s gardens with native varieties of corn and beans in Prospect Park and on the Waterpod.

INTERPRETATION The MAIZE FIELD project aims to draw attention to and participate in the

continual change that defines the city by highlighting a lost historical past then integrating that history back into the present landscape. This summer I planted two “Three Sisters Gardens” with native varieties of corn, beans and squash as part of my research for MAIZE FIELD. The companion planting system of the Three Sisters Garden is a great metaphor for community, as the success of the corn depends also on the beans and the squash. And nutritionally the three compliment each other. There is both an elegance and beauty to the planting system and garden itself. Saving seeds from this year’s crop for the next year’s project helps both to keep viable these varieties of corn and in itself is a gesture of sustainability.

Title: MAIZE FIELD Ingredients: Harvested corn that I am drying for seed, as well as photographs, text and drawings, narrative of artistic inquiry

Francis Estrada BIO Francis Estrada works in painting and drawing media and resides in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA in California and has exhibited in California, Chicago, and New York City. Estrada works with appropriating images from paintings, archival photography, his own photographs, and sketches. He finds images within various said sources and places them in new, imaginary, or absent settings to explore the effects of the displacement and replacement of figures in various situations and environments. Often omitting, blurring, or fading some features, he encourages the viewer to closely investigate and interact with the figures in his work, which in turn get a “new life” of their own in their new environments. In rendering his chosen characters in new environments, he creates spaces for people and places to co-exist regardless of time. INTERPRETATION At a time of crisis (personal, societal, or global), it is easy for people to seek

comfort in various vices. Over the last few years, it has interested me how, when people go to a bar (including myself) and sit on a barstool, they seem to look for redemption or enlightenment while (literally) looking up to bottles of alcohol for support, as one would sit on a pew and look up to saints in a church. This body of work, titled Spirits, is a response to this observation and interprets the theme of the exhibition through the process of how I transform my consumption into a means of creating new work. I have specifically chosen to use whisky bottles (Maker’s Mark and Jack Daniel’s) as the primary materials for this group. And my “spirits” of choice. By consuming the liquid and transforming the bottles to deities/spirits, I am then able to create “intermediaries” of my ideas, desires, hopes, and emotions. Consumption directly leads to my means of creating work.

Title: Immaculate Sangria Ingredients: Local white wine, local fruits (depending on what is available) Size: 4” x 7” x 4” Price: $150

Title: Sacred Sangria Ingredients: Local red wine, local fruits (depending on what is available) Size: 5” x 9.5” x 2” Price: $150

Jenny Zhang BIO Jenny Zhang is a social change print, video and performance artist working in themes of gender, race, community and sustainability. She has exhibited at galleries, film festivals and to extend the reach of her social change messages, performed, lectured, and taught. She has been selected for the 2010 Bronx Museum’s Artist In the Marketplace program, and residencies at the Atlanta Printmakers Studio and the Kala Art Institute. Having been a New Yorker for15 years, Zhang grew up in Shanghai, China, and has also lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she received her BA from Stanford University. INTERPRETATION Means is what we can give, not only what we can receive, and collaboration

is the forgotten sister of competition. Ants do not prey on aphids and instead protect or “farm” aphids because the glucose rich substance aphids secrete, nourishes ants, creating “means” that are mutually beneficial. In these digital colleges of traditional linoleum prints, Mike is a DJ who feels his music makes his relationship with dancers a similar exchange of means -- beats for moves. The jars the artwork is reproduced onto are used to serve or service the thirsty -- an enactment of the symbiosis if the thirsty also begin to dance. This work is part of an ongoing body of work by artist Jenny Zhang called ‘Men Are Like Fascinating Insects,’ exploring the sensitive and expressive facets of masculinity, and the desire of women who think they are fly.

Title: Mike-Aphid Medium: Digital print, linoleum block, calligraphy Size: print range from 22” x 15“ -- 8” x 6”, though framed option is available and larger in size, jars range from 19” x 13” x 13” -- 7” x 6” x 5” Price: TBA

Emily Miranda BIO b. New Jersey 1973. BFA painting, Rhode Island School of Design 1995. MFA painting, Hunter College 2004. Lives and works, making cakes and jewelry, in Brooklyn NY. INTERPRETATION A vase, holding long, lush, lifelike stems of swiss

chard. Both to be made entirely of sugarpaste and royal icing. The consumption of sugar has always been political. At the time of its first introduction to Europe, it was available only for the very wealthy. The tradition of table sculptures made of sugar was a demonstration of extreme decadance and waste. Today, sugar and economic means remain closely linked. Those with money consume fresh, healthy food from places like “Whole Paycheck”, and choose to watch their sugar consumption for health. Those without means live in neighborhoods without farmers markets, but grocery stores with perpetual sales on soda and processed foods loaded with sugar. In a sense, they can’t afford not to consume sugar. The proposed sugar sculpture will be made in the language of Dutch still life painting, a genre which wasted food for art. Showcasing stems of swiss chard in the context of sugar removes the green, leafy vegetable from view as a modest farmer’s crop and places it as an indicator of political and economic consumption.

Title: TBA Ingredients: Sugarpaste (powdered sugar, gum tragacanth, corn syrup, vegetable shortening), Royal Icing (powdered sugar, egg whites, water) Size: no more than 2’ x 2’ x 2’ Price: TBA

Ben Pinder 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. 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!

Amelia Coulter BIO Amelia Coulter grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico surrounded with the rich history and intertwined cultures of that region. She studied sculpture at SUNY Purchase moved Brooklyn to cook, learn and eat. She loves patterns, architecture, design, and decorative arts. She is inspired by regionally specific traditions and objects and is interested in the layers of information that they convey. Using structurally strong and tasty sugar cookie dough and royal icing, she interprets imagery into small, detailed art objects. Amelia is committed to integrating organic, local and contextually appropriate products as much as possible. INTERPRETATION Tools are Means. They are things we use to effectively facilitate what we do.

These are my favorite kinds of objects, and we are intimately connected to them through designing them, using them, and experiencing the results.

Title: Tools Ingredients: Iced sugar cookie Size: Variable Price: TBA Title: Grog Bar Ingredients: Three large glass carboys; one filled with rum, one with water, one with lime juice Size: 7’ x 7’ Price: N/A

Lady Bug Stingray BIO Ladybug Stingray is a Brooklyn based electro-funk, soul-rock band. A duo at it’s core, KVK 13 fronts the band on the mic and keys and Sugar Bubbles covers the rhythm section, playing drums and bass simultaneously. Just back from headlining the second annual Wassaic Project Summer Festival, they will be launching a live web based variety show, Ladybug Stingray Presents, in October as they wrap up their soon to be released EP. www.ladybugstingray.com, Genre: Electro-Funk, Soul-Rock Band

Dorie Colangelo BIO Dorie Colangelo is a Brooklyn based singer songwriter offering up folk, jazz

and blues tinged originals, smoky vocals and her signature fingerpicking style. She has just finished her self titled debut album for a Fall 2008 release. www.myspace. com/doriecolangelo, Genre: Solo, Singer Songwriter

Funky Jungle Jazz Band BIO We are Funky Jungle, a blend of jazz, funk, and R&B, with influences from all music. We bring the funky feelings back to the people with a classic, but fresh feel to it. We’re often seen on the street at Union Square, or in the subway spreading the musical love with a funky sound you’ve never heard before. www.myspace. com/FunkyJungleNYC, Genre: Funk, Jazz, R&B

Midnight Magic BIO Midnight Magic is Tiffany Roth, Andrew Raposo, Morgan Wiley, Carter Yasutake, Caito Sanchez, Nick Roseboro, and Max Goldman. We make psychedelic soul inspired by electro, funk, and disco from all around the world. Our big dream is to score a Dario Argento film on the moon. We have just completed our first 12” is called “Beam Me Up” (out on Permanent Vacation later this year). myspace. com/midnightmagicsounds, Genre: Psychedelic Horror Movie Disco

Outabodies BIO Three Emcee/Producers hailing from the planet of Brooklyn, NYC. The trio

consists of Skales the Galaxy Raye, Absaar9, and YouforiaLyfe. The group infiltrated the competitive New York performance scene as a part of The Social Outcast Collective. Influenced by the true school of Hip-Hop. The “O-B-O’s” remains true to rocking crowds with energetic performances, innovative music, and with their raw talent. www.myspace.com/outabodies, Genre: Hip-Hop/Punk/Funk/Rock Band

Selector Honey Knuckles BIO Selector Honey Knuckles (Nic Richards) migrated to Brooklyn from his Southern homeland in 2006. This will be his third year participating in the Last Supper Festival, having been introduced to the event by mastermind, super coordinator, and fellow Floridan friend Coralina Meyer. When not DJing, Richards works as a freelance audio engineer and hip hop producer. He is currently producing an EP with Brooklyn MC Mr. Metro as well as running his home recording studio Skilloughby Productions and scoring independent films. His sets are an eclectic homage to the art of party rocking. Expect a well selected blend of head noddin’ body rockin’ jams mixed as they should be. www.myspace.com/selectorhoneyknuckles, Genre: Hip Hop, DanceHall Reggae DJ

Navegante BIO Described by some as a “Latin Gnarls Barkley,” and profiled in May 11th’s New York Magazine, NAVEGANTE brings to the world Electro-Latin Funk: a danceable yet intense mix of deep bass lines, hard hitting beats, and electrified Puerto Rican Cuatro. NAVEGANTE unites the rhythm of the Latin world with the streets and beats of NYC, producing a new harmony that’s universal in spirit and sound, yet uniquely original in style and substance. Please join us in spreading the word on this extraordinary band. www.navegante.tv, Genre: Latin Electro Roots Band

DJ SeekTen BIO SeekTen was a music lover since birth playing around with her father’s belt driven turntable, his reel-to reel, or the 8-track in the car. Growing up on the Central Coast of California, SeekTen was always fascinated by DJing and made the move to NY for many reasons, but the chance to live in the birthplace of hip hop was one motivation, and once she was settled in Brooklyn decided that not only did she want to be a fan of music, but also an active contributor so she bought herself a pair of Technics 1200’s and has been spreading the sound of music on the internet and in many bars and lounges of Manhattan and Brooklyn for the past 4 years. www.myspace.com/djseekten, Genre: DJ

Clickbeatle BIO Clickbeatle hatched somewhere deep in the dark crevices of the Baltimore City streets, but recently witnesses have spotted him surfacing in the sweaty underbelly of the NYC dance music scene. When he’s not curating film festivals under his alias Thomas Newman, he can be found delivering bouncing booty beats, wobbly basslines, and a healthy dose of acid enlightenment. http://www.facebook.com/newmantl, Genre: DJ 19

Annie Weinmayr

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BIO Raised in Lexington, Massachusetts, Annie Weinmayr is a woman of many talents including art, design, landscape architecture, fashion, music and is the maker of just about anything that can be made. She is co-founder of the multi-disciplinary design firm Special Product Design. Ms. Weinmayr received her Masters from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and her BA in sculpture from Columbia. She lives and works in Brooklyn,

INTERPRETATION The Tender Diptych is made using one hundred one dollar bills. Tender One

uses only the colored parts and Tender Too the left over whites. The piece references Means directly through its medium of currency and by association through all the psychological baggage and ambivalent feelings that monies bring along for the ride.

Title: Tender One and Two Medium: 100 US dollar bills on paper Size: two panels 24”x 30” each Price: See Artist

Scott Wolfson BIO Scott Wolfson was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1978. He received an MFA in Combined Media from Hunter College, CUNY, and was awarded a BA with Honors from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. Scott was included in New Insight at the Next Fair 2008, curated by Suzanne Ghez, and his work has been included in shows in the United States and Europe, most recently at Galeria Leyendecker in the Canary Islands, Spain. Scott has been teaching art since 2000, and is currently an artist-teacher with the Joan Mitchell Foundation and an Educator at the Museum of Modern Art. INTERPRETATION Lightbox: Two solar-powered batteries will supply approximately 15 hours

of illumination to the lightbox. Each set of two batteries will be switched once per week and will be allowed to recharge via the solar panels. The lightbox will be illuminated for three hours per day, from 2-5pm. Depending on the weather and the amount of sunshine, there is the potential for the batteries to recharge faster and for the lightbox to be on for more hours per day.

Title: Source Medium: Laser print on transparency film on corrugated plastic, wood, 2 full-spectrum, daylight temperature fluorescent lights; 2 123-watt solar panels, 2 sets of 12-V deepcycle batteries, inverter, timer Size: 73.5” x 48” Price: $7,000

Tom Sanford BIO Tom Sanford is a New York-based artist whose work is exhibited around the world. His paintings, which range from historical works of celebrity assassinations to portraits of gangsta rappers and teen pop tarts to elaborate cosmologies weaved together from Hollywood movies, reflect a deep ambivalence about the American cultural condition. Sanford is currently represented in New York by Leo Koenig Inc., in Copenhagen/Beijing by Galleri Faurschou, and in Brussels by Galerie Erna Hecey. INTERPRETATION Recycling and repurposing pop-culture imagery with a post-modern skew

of values, Tom Sanford’s work mixes the billboard aesthetic of low brow surrealism and German expressionism with neo-pop art. His means for interpreting our post-apocalyptic relationship with idols is by commenting on the separation between low and high art.

Matthew Thomas BIO Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee Matthew Thomas discovered drawing and painting as early as eight years old. On November 28, 1996, Matthew’s outlook on life completely changed after a near fatal shooting to the head. This event was the catylist toward his career in art. Three days later, he began a series of untitled works that would later receive the American Visions Award, the Gold Award for Painting, and Silver in Printmaking at the National Scholastics Arts and Writing Competition in 1998. He also received exhibition space at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. INTERPRETATION

The psychological warfare in which many African American men must combat throughout their lives living in the United States is of particular interest to me. My work comments on the effects of this construct and the imprint left on black men and the world. Through figurative painting and film my work explores themes such as rites of passage, masculinity, self discovery, and identity—all of which that have been disguised, tampered, and arrested by American and African American popular culture for the sake of financial profit. Furthermore, I attempt to dismantle the negative construct of the black male cemented mentally and socially throughout the world and provide the true spectrum of Black America. Overload is a rebuttal against the psychosocial battle of the African American male. This piece comments on the financially driven tactics of psychological warfare implemented by American Pop Culture. Overload incorporates “Means” by questioning the validity of our society’s needs and wants by deconstructing reheated stereotypes, financial incompetence, emotional bankruptcy, confliction of self-image, and the short-lived comfort of consumption.

Title: Fuck 2008 Medium: Gold & silver leaf on paper Size: 11” x 15” Price: $500

Title: Overload Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 48” x 40” Price: $4,300

Rafael Rosario-Laguna 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. INTERPRETATION 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.

Robert Steel BIO Born and raised in downtown Washington DC, Robert witnessed extreme contradictions between rich and poor, weak and powerful from an early age. Robert moved to New York in 1998 to escape from what he felt were the narrow confines of a city driven by political greed and hypocrisy. A few years later, on the morning of September 11, 2001, he was working outside at a furniture store in lower Manhattan when the towers fell. This event sparked a curiosity in him that led him to take a deeper look at the forces driving U.S. foreign policies, as well as their relation to unjust domestic policies in American cities. Today, Robert makes work with the hope of raising people’s awareness to the relationship of the powerful and the oppressed, of what is at stake, and how it affects us all. INTERPRETATION We live in a world where the unequal distribution of wealth causes misery for

many people who do not possess the means to live decently. On the other hand people in a position of privilege are encouraged to live excessively and waste resources. The gap between rich and poor gradually increases until the dispossessed are forced to use violence to take back the means of consumption. The rich normally have a monopoly on violence with which they can easily beat back any rebellions. However, greed proves to be fatal. As the empire spreads, it weakens as its resources dwindle. The constant pressure of war, and the rot of corruption corrode the once invincible state until it becomes vulnerable to attack. These drawings are a reflection on what happens when the empire begins to crumble and a new order comes in to take control.

Title: Gutsy Series and Heart Out of Tripe Medium: Cast resin and tripe Size: Various Price: See Artist

Title: The Widow Medium: Ink pen, graphite, charcoal, acrylic medium Size: 11” x 14” Price: $700

Ryan V. Brennan 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 forthcoming 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). INTERPRETATION 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.

Tyrome Tripoli BIO At present, Tripoli creates assemblage sculpture from transformed materials and ordinary objects. This new medium was first inspired when Tripoli was selected to participate in an artist in residency program at the San Francisco Refuse and Recycle Center in 2001. Shortly after his residency, he co-founded an international artist exchange exhibition called Vern. This project allows the unique opportunity to travel, make art, show it and share this exchange with artist around the world. For the last four years Tripoli has been touring and exhibiting his work in Europe and the United States. At the present, Tripoli lives in Brooklyn. He spends his time making mixed materials sculpture and architectural metal work. INTERPRETATION For the Last Supper 2009 exhibition I am proposing a few pieces from a

series of work called Found Architecture. This work consists of architectural models made from recycled objects. These abstract buildings, set in a post apocalyptic landscape, render a dismal future for the humans. These sculptures are dioramas that depict not a utopia but a dystopia. Where earth’s resources are almost completely depleted and its surface is covered in waste but most importantly the humans have not gone extinct.

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.

Title: Close Your Eyes and Look As Far as You can See, Chapter 4, 2009 Medium: Cinemallage, mixed media Size: 24” x 39” x 9” Price: $5,000

Title: Electrolux Condominiums Medium: Mixed materials Size: 14” x 14” x 34” Price: $1,100 each

Satomi Shirai BIO I moved to New York from Tokyo, and started semi-immigrant life here 5 years ago. Since then, I have been interested in cultural hybridity, process of assimilation, and transformation of identity in that life, and exploring photographic expression of shift of state of mind or mind-set and of life in the environment of juxtaposed multiple culture and society. INTERPRETATION With the theme of the Last Supper I would throw a question how people keep

Sarah Walko/Malado Baldwin Sarah Walko 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 has participated in numerous artists workshops and residency programs and is Art Director, co- writer and co-editor with the independent film collective Santasombra. Her work has been shown at the International Film Festivals around the world.

their own culture and consume a culture in that environment.

Malado Baldwin BIO 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). INTERPRETATION We are focusing on how we consume locally and globally, the artist as the voice of its cultural language, repurposing traditional practice to our contemporary needs and desires, Means as motive, economy of Means, ways and Means, and Means of production are all tools for storytelling.

Title: Untitled Medium: Digital C-Print mounted on Sintra board Size: 16” x 20” each Price: See Artist

Title: A Very Long House Medium: Drawing/painting, sculpture, installation, motors Size: Variable Price: See Artist

Kerry Mansfield 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. INTERPRETATION 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.

Title: Self-Portrait, Recovery, June 2006 / Self-Portrait, Post-Implant, December 2006 Medium: Digital chromagenic print Size: 18” x 24” Price: $800

Thomas Carruthers BIO The proposal is to do a site-specific sculpture -a swelling of a room’s floor, or wall(s). To take a known flatness, that is expected, assumed, and in an organic way distend it. I have been looking at a class of materials for called industrial nutrients, such as some metals and plastics, that can be endlessly formed and consumed. I think, given the focus of this year’s show and my desire to do a large scale, specific piece that the dumpster needs to be avoided. The piece would be a series of rhombus’s so that the whole would be a flexing and distorting of an orthogonal grid. Previous pieces of mine focus on a casting of a space. Literal features become figural form and a tension results between the direct relationship of piece to site. INTERPRETATION This piece is a response to “means” as symbolic form and “means” as

process. The overall form will be suggestive of the wall swelling, with a response to both the space (lateral) and gravity (vertical) in the curves/bellies (themselves signs of consumption). I have been experimenting with materials that come under the heading of “industrial nutrients.” These are a group of materials including some papers, plastics and metals that exist in a closed cycle of constant production and consumption. This piece will be made from newspaper pulp with a wood glue derived from fish which is very water soluble and yet creates a strong structural surface. After this show this entire piece will be recycled into its component elements.

Title: “I anchor heavily” Medium: Newspaper pulp and fish glue Size: H 8’-6” x W 11’-4” x D 3’-0” Price: N/A

Quinn Dukes 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. She has exhibited in galleries such as Twist Art Gallery and Dangenart, and is Co-Founder of the Independent Artist Collaborative, Off The Wall Art Group. Dukes has also received recognition by various publications including that of NY Arts Magazine (2007). During her undergraduate studies, Dukes concentrated on installation, sculpture and printmaking. Experimentation often lends these combined mediums to act as a theatrical backdrop for her performances. 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. INTERPRETATION The Secrets Spoke presents a scenario of two opposing entities. These sus-

Sam Horine 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. INTERPRETATION 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.

pended, fleshy forms loosely mimic the human figure. The table resting between the two forms acts as both a physical barricade and emotional placemat. The soil is interwoven with plastic monofilament, seeds and sprouts thus creating a root system entangled with both fruitful and detrimental components.

Title: The Secrets Spoke Medium: Latex, soil seeds wooden table, 4 chairs, sound piece Size: Variable Price: $1,500

Title: Untitled Medium: Digital chromagenic print Size: 11” x 14” Price: See Artist

Brydee Rood 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. 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.

Title: The “I am Temporary!” Temple Medium: Digital media Size: Variable Price: See Artist

Brian Reed BIO In my works, I combine culturally specific myths, folklore, and images with my autobiographical experiences to examine broad universal themes, or universalisms present in all cultures—violence, sexuality, death, afterlife and creation. The resulting images generate an aesthetic that is both universal and specific. I explore the appropriation of power. Cultures use art to display power. By using culturally specific objects as a reference point, I establish in my work a symbol of power and meaning. Cultural symbols have an accepted and understood function as a node to the other. For this reason, I select objects and themes because of their lineage and intrinsic principals associated with forms of power to enhance and project my art. INTERPRETATION I look at how myth and the story grow and develop through culture and

through time. metamorphosis is a constant cycle that creates new forms of expression while preserving our most basic myths and universalisms. The Nkisi staff reference Afro Atlantic traditions of communicating between this world and the spirit world.

Title: Nkisi Beer Staff Medium: Found materials, fence posts, bull dozer plate, beer caps, acrylic paint, barbed wire, horse shoe nails Size: 8” x 8” x 5’ Price: $2,000

Chris Smith 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. INTERPRETATION His latest work entitled “Road Work Ahead” is an ongoing appropriated art

Emma 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. INTERPRETATION 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.

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.

Title: Keep Arms Akimbo Medium: Acrylic and vinyl on plywood Size: 24” x 30” Price: $500 Title: Eye Can Sea You Medium: Paper cut from magazines, cloth, thread Size: Various Price: NFS

Mary Jeys

in Brooklyn.

Emilie Baltz 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

INTERPRETATION 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 Emilie Baltz is a French/American artist born in Joliet, IL. She resides in Brooklyn, NY, holds a BA in Film studies from Vassar College and an MID from Pratt Institute. Her work is published globally – most recently in CrEATe, a Gestalten book on the future of food. She was named Bombay Sapphire’s Top 10 American Glass Designer, photographer in residence at the Vitra Workshops, and visiting artist at Limoges porcelain. She is represented by Max Lang Gallery in NYC. Baltz is a lecturer at Pratt Institute and is presently founding Fork&Design, a forum for the study of food and culture. INTERPRETATION As a participatory art and performance piece, Food Bank engages the Last

Supper guests by asking them to verbally record their favorite recipe from Mom (or Dad) with the goal of beginning an oral recipe book of American food mythology. By literally giving a voice to the personal mythologies of each participant. this interaction is at heart the goal of the event, serving to not only interpret the Last Supper’s mission of communally interactive conversation, but also bringing to light a diverse feast of individual tastes and cultural memory that ultimately will fuel a local discussion (during the event itself), and, in an archival state, will also begin to fuel a global understanding of the American palette.

Title: Do You Belong on the Brooklyn Torch? Medium: Paper and trust Size: Fits in your wallet! Price: Exchange Value: 1Torch = 1Dollar

Title: Food Bank Medium: Sound projection booth Size: 28” x 28” x 40” Price: N/A

Andréa Stanislav

Zach Timm

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.

INTERPRETATION “Blow Away” is an allegory about how empires consume themselves. It is also about

the consumption of time, from the nanoseconds of first moments of the explosion, to the centuries of empires, to the timeless salt desert. Title: Blow Away | Length: 4 min 32 sec | Category: Video Art

Zack Wilson 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.

InterpretatioN This story of a forgotten hero exposes the City’s deficient means to be able to sustain what is truly its most valuable resource- the people. “The End” addresses issues many New Yorkers face alone and strives to resurrect our attention to the forgotten heroes from the ashes of 9/11. Title: The End | Length: 2 min 39 sec | Category: Documentary

Jeffu Warmouth BIO Jeffu Warmouth is a photo-based contemporary artist who has managed to

make a career out of playing with his food. His work incorporates photography, video, objects, and installations, and often uses humor to skewer popular culture. Jeffu has exhibited in alternative spaces and museums, and his award-winning film/video work has screened in festival internationally.

Interpretation Jeffu’s artistic investigations have centered for years on

food and humor, using puns, gags, and comic twists to subvert logic, language, identity, and culture. Complimenting the comedic voice of his work is a mastery of crafting every day items of consumption into narratives of epic proportions. Title: Day of the Cabbage! | Length: 10 min | Category: Video Art

BIO Zachary Timm is a graduate of Ithaca College and has lived in NYC for the

last two years. He and a few of his friends recently formed a film company called Aligned Creative LLC, which is in the process of producing a short film, a web series and a documentary.

INTERPRETATION Lost in Lexicon stages two characters on a date, both

hell bent in disconnected manifestations of consumption in which they will stop at nothing to achieve. Title: Lost in Lexicon | Length: 3:20 min | Category: Narrative

Amautalab Martín Jalfen BIO Martín Jalfen, co-founder and director at Amautalab.

He used to work as a copywriter and creative director in different ad agencies. His background comes from advertising, screenwriting and painting. He won advertising awards such as Cannes, D&AD, Clio, One Show. His work as a director was screened and awarded at different festivals such as Milano Film Festival, Resfest, Pictoplasma, Berlin Porn Festival, Flux at the Hammer Museum, Paris Porn Film Festival, Amsterdam Alternative Erotica Film Festival and La Boca del Lobo. He is planning to win an Oscar next year.

Javier Lourenço BIO Javier joined Amautalab as a director after following 11 years of expertise in

advertising as an art and creative director in several ad agencies. In advertising Javier created successfull award-winning campaigns. His more than 100 advertising awards include Cannes, Lions, Clio, One Show & AD&D, among others. As a director, his work was selected at festivals such as Milano Film Festival, Resfest, Pictoplasma, Berlin Porn Festival, Flux, Paris Porn Film Festival, Amsterdam Alternative Erotica Film Festival and La Boca del Lobo. In 2006 he created and developed “The Uncoolhunter” project that worships the “un –trendy”.

Interpretation This tale of a blind woman’s means to find love, even through her limitations and constraints, is a simple and sweet parable that perhaps goes deeper than what the viewer may expect. Title: The Blindness of the Woods | Length: 12 min | Category: Narrative

Meerkat Media Collective BIO An interdisciplinary group of artists dedicated to making media with a nonhierarchal and inclusive creative process. Meerkat Media has produced dozens of short films featured in festivals across the country and broadcast internationally.

Interpretation Our film was made in a very collaborative way, with authorship shared across many members of the collective. In all of our work, we strive to bring together our diverse perspectives, experiences and expertise to create meaningful, complex and moving stories that bring the makers and the viewers into a dialogue about the ways the world is, and the ways it could be. Title: Every Third Bite | Length: 9 min | Category: Documentary

Bambi Bogert

Thomas Beug BIO Born in Brooklyn and raised in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Bambi Bogert is

BIO After graduating with an honors degree in English and German literature

Interpretation The documentary was inspired by director Bambi Bogert’s personal struggle to stay afloat as an artist in a city that has morphed from concrete jungle into corporate playground – and the question: why stay? Title: I [Broken Heart] NY | Length: 4 min | Category: Documentary

Interpretation A story evolves through an activity that repurposes the inner city as a ‘Western’ or

internationally known as a magazine writer and TV/video producer. Specializing in human interest and popular culture, her work has featured in numerous magazines and television shows, ranging from Cosmopolitan and The European to MTV and ABC News.

Denis Villeneuve

from Trinity College Dublin, Thomas moved to NYC where he began a career in advertising and film. With Droga5, he most recently expanded his portfolio and directed a global campaign for Adidas. Currently Thomas is working full time producing and co-directing a season of a new independent travel show called “This Is My City”.

jungle or battlefield. In this setting and through these means of production/destruction, a film is created that captures the violence of love in some way. Title: The Spotter | Length: 14 min | Category: Narrative

BIO Denis Villeneuve has rapidly achieved both public and critical attention for

Casimir Nozkowski

Interpretation This dinner party truly brings a new meaning to the concept of the Last Supper, showing the destructive consequences of consumption in

BIO Casimir Nozkowski makes video. The co-creator of the award winning website www.cryingwhileeating.com, he has written and directed short films, music videos and commercials that have been seen on cable, online and in festivals around the world. He has been featured on The Tonight Show, MSNBC, KROQ and NPR. His work has been featured in Entertainment Weekly, Best Week Ever, The NY Times, Slate, on IFC, CNN, the CW, AMC and exhibited at the Larissa Goldston Gallery in New York City. He has written and produces the on-air promotion for the Emmy-winning show Mad Men and is on the board of directors for Rooftop Films.

films showcasing his powerful and distinctive cinematic voice. His first two feature films Un 32 août sur terre and Maelström were screened to critical acclaim at many international festivals.

its most extreme form. Title: Next Floor | Length: 11 min 34 sec | Category: Narrative

Mike Shuwerk BIO

Michael Schuwerk is a New York based artist. He holds a BA with Honors in History from the University of Chicago and an MFA from Hunter College. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally. His current practice explores the aesthetic and expressive possibilities of time-based media and printmaking.

Interpretation In Happiness is the Right Choice, the question of indi-

vidual means is intertwined with the ability of nation-spanning economic machines to project and control meaning on a global scale and to valorize time. Title: Happiness is the Right Choice | Length: 15 min 22 sec | Category: Experimental

Fiorella Castanotto

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.

INTERPRETATION Checkmate is an investigative report on usury, economic instability, the cycle of

poverty and the responsibilities check-cashing places and commercial banks have to their customers and communities. Title: Checkmate | Length: 9 min 45 sec | Category: Documentary

Yin-Ling Chen BIO Yin-Ling Chen, born 1969 in Taiwan is an artist based in London, mainly

working with video and film. She has completed an MFA in Fine Arts at the Slade school of Fine Art in London. She has shown her work internationally including at the AURORA 08 in Norwich, The Regional Museum Stalowa Wola in Poland, Hysteria: A Festival of Women, Toronto in Canada, Sidewalk Cinema in Wein, Austria.

Interpretation Chen executes a simple and poignant documentation of a microscopic feast too small for most to notice the intricacy and subtle semblance to our own rituals of consumption. Title: Who Comes to Supper? | Length: 3 min 41 sec | Category: Experimental

Interpretation Castanotto illustrates in a beautiful language of portraits and landscapes, the largely unnoticed ecological and cultural footprint of something as commonplace as salt. Title: Next Floor | Length: 11 min 34 sec | Category: Narrative 42

Casey Rocheteau BIO Casey Rocheteau has self published three books (Roguish Young Things 2006, Keelhaul 2007, and List

of American Rituals 2008). Her current projects include a book entitled 11:11 and a new album Chiarascuro, which is some combination of radio waves, reverb, words and Shangri La leaking under sidewalks. Her work is rooted in the sociological, and spans from the historical to the futuristic. She’s done a number of shows as a member of Peace, Loving. She doesn’t quite know how to describe herself properly. Some of her most vivid dreams involve spiderwebs.

INTERPRETATION The poem speaks to the idea of ‘waste’ in a way that makes tangible the act itself,

indicating and, at times, indicting “the blistered hands” that grab for resources and, those resources being exhausted, toss their remains aside into humanity’s collective trash-heap.

Refuse. The street still smells like bourbon twenty minutes after the large man in the camo jacket smashed the bottle in the neighbor’s yard, bellowing, “Ya fakin’ n-n-aw dawg y-y-y-ya fakin’!” I want to imagine that all the soiled newspapers and condom wrappers on all the streets and all the subways in this stolen fens marshmut came to be because illness rewired the minds of one thousand megaphone voiced men into spats of Jim Beam and 2% milk but I know better. Even in the poor places here we wear the blistered hands of invisible children upon our feet, and we sprawl waste on every inch, waiting for the callous fingered shadows to pluck and toss whatever we see as ill-fit to live indoors. In the night, the wind in this city speaks of the neck scratch living dead on its buses

For about eight months I ate almost entirely out of dumpsters from the Au Bon Pain in Providence to the Trader Joe’s in Hadley, MA. I can’t say I got any premonition of that land because all of it tasted like disrespect for everything that grows. In France there is a notion of dining where the meal consists of food and wine from the same region. They call it “terroir” or “sense of place”, to know a land, one must understand its pallet.

and of the asbestos patches around school yards and of the legacy of burned buildings. All the co-ops and green initiatives in JP aren’t going to alter history,

One time a cop drove by us as we were elbow deep in trash bags and he said “I’m not going to tell you to stop but that’s gross.” He wasn’t wrong.

or change the sound of a torn plastic bag on grey snow.

With the sticky orange glaze and onion flakes crusted under our nails,

In the future, archaeologists will regard our culture as highly skilled in fashioning replicas of Mt. McKinley from bald tires, baby strollers, juice boxes and lottery tickets. Let us admire our art, darlings. From the teeth grinding up a fine powder of price to the throat muscles we use to push down arrowheads and mulch, circuit boards, space and rubber, Styrofoam and gulp gulp gulp down the hatch. It is said that America’s number one pastime is shopping, probably because throwing shit away is a chore to most people.

it was hard not to wonder if it was possible to have too much. the bagels might go hard, become bird food, and we might be trying to salvage what was never worth consuming in the first place. Smushed pastries and sugar scraps like us, looking for some place that hasn’t yet been claimed by the big wallet men and their devil chested wives, some moon crater part of America where the pox never danced upon the brow of a native, where the guns slept in silence, where everyone might be sustained, and the buffalo bones used wisely, let me find that place, on this earth, in this country, somehow, let it be.

Derek JG Williams BIO Derek JG Williams is a Boston based writer and performer. He has featured at numerous venues thoughout New England and New York, and is a regular at the world famous Cantab Lounge. In the spring of 2009 he released a full length CD of poetry and music titled “A Chorus of Cities.” His work bridges the gap between academia and performance. It is intense and heroic, where dark and barren urban images alternate with epic and pastoral metaphor. He is 26.

INTERPRETATION The poem explores the shortsightedness of consumption through the overextension of the populus and what it leaves behind, forcing itself on the natural world, creating another world instead, where human constructs allow one to perceive, to remember the scent of flowers, but only “through glass.” Momentia The idea of movement in the train station Is stillness, is waiting. The hush of bodies and baggage Surging through terminals,

Buried for miles In the veins of the city Beneath myopic streets And buildings.

Hear the elevator rising, The smell of flowers through glass, Mechanisms of memory Turning on their axis. This place is meant for touching. For the melting of footprints On subway platforms: Wet missives to sweethearts.

In our very own alphabet city The alleys have stopped growing trash. Processions of traffic Snake through the skull of streets. Lo-fi malingerers mill further west, Their tin can ears know distance Like drum loops.

Katie Cercone BIO Katie Cercone received her BA from Lewis and Clark College with the self-designed major, Gender Studies and Art: The Aesthetics of Resistance. She has shown her interdisciplinary collage, installation and performance work in Washington D.C., Portland, OR, New York City and her most recent body of work produced in residence at Residencia Corazon, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has published critical feminist writing in Bitch Magazine, the Utne Reader and U.K.-based feminist art journal N.Paradoxa.

INTERPRETATION Death Instinct addresses issues of public space, community and intimacy as they apply to food and nourishment in New York City. This piece is comprised of three overlapping parts: material appearing in italics has been taken from “Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism & Schizophrenia,” by Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari (1983). The refrain featured throughout the work has been surrepticiously lifted from male to female personal ads on New York City Craigslist during the period of June 27-August 9, 2009. Joining these two outside sources is Cercone’s own prose – Death Instinct examines just how disconnected we’ve become from our own processes of feeding, socializing and experiencing romantic “intimacy” as they are likely to occur in privately owned and mediated spaces, that which we must always pay to occupy. As a sort of tapestry of our collective consumption, the piece addresses very directly the Last Supper’s ominous title, and particularly, this idea of “means” as it is reflected in the conscious and unconscious motives by which we take and/or share bread. Death Instinct desire is an exile, desire is a desert that traverses the body* i’m looking for a date tonight: dinner, drinks, or we can go see a movie. the prime function incumbent upon the socius, has always been to codify the flows of desire, to inscribe them, to record them, to see to it that no flow exists that is not properly damned up, channeled, regulated. the death instinct – when my mechanisms fail to damn up an urge, and something unearthly, something razor sharp courses through me swiftly. routine motions feel dangerous, hyper-speed, painful, suspect. what monster lies at the end of my charm-chain? he who has designed for me a series of cravings, satisfied only by my very perfect alienation. the intrinsic power of desire to create its own object – if only in an unreal, hallucinatory, or delirious form…

again, i set out, looking for a mystery that would feel new, looking for a mental embankment that would, at least, be of my own creation. oh world – won’t you envelope me, sweep me up, ravish me with magical thinking? i combed my beaches and yours, looking for clues, for darts of adrenaline i could fold between my orphaned, shallow breathing. the wind is free and i am alone again - the moon’s mist, ruptures of light and reflection, sound and echo wrapping up around me like a marvelous cloak. if only this nourishment alone would suffice. that infectious melody floats up from below, dissonant and familiar, i’m looking for a date tonight: dinner, drinks, or we can go see a movie. hoping to meet someone interesting for dinner tonite. i drive and we can go or meet at a restaurant... i’m looking for a someone to hang out with for drinks. take out and drinks? i only drink socially. looking for a fun, pretty and affectionate woman for dinner date. really wish i had something lined up with a cute girl tonight ( a drink or maybe even eating outside somewhere cool). any ladies up for a drink & movie tonight? we can go for a ride around the city in my classic car and go to a great resturant. drinks, dinner, starbucks, people watching? would like to share drinks and dinner with a lovely woman. it’s 4:45 on saturday, and I’m looking to go around 7:00 (although I’m flexible on that). also open on food type - lets decide together! i am planning on an 8:30 pm seating. i do hope you can join me. lets go out have dinner and a movie. i’m tired of meeting the wrong people in bars clubs and lounges. we’ll have martinis, chat and get this summer started. i like little dive bars, but occasionally it’s nice to get dressed up and head to a lounge. i would love to talk over drinks, and if we connect maybe watch a movie. let’s meet up for drinks and go from there! maybe this evening, a movie, jazz bar, some wine or drinks or otherwise? i’m looking for a nice woman that would be interested in meeting for a drink. go party, have drinks, dinner, catch a show or movie. want to hang out to a movie or dinner. i love movies, dining out, shopping, amusement, romance... i love movies, dining out, shopping, amusement, romance... i’m looking for a date tonight: dinner, drinks, or we can go see a movie. you found me torn at the edges and starving, eager to make a square, safe, epicurean investment. this feeling of lack fluttered around, glittering and capsizing at my palms. what codes grant access to this reality? what naturally ruling government of instincts suffers when sublimation and subterfuge reign? these words set out like death vessels in the night, carrying the weak and the illiterate, carrying those passengers that longed to be ravished by self-gratifying designs. rot language rung out like an elegiacal chorus, a fluttering of knives and forks banging again and again, fat fingers shooting up, gesturing, begging, belching, demanding: status! intimacy! comfort! service! like a terrible alphabet, this chorus, tracing its signs directly on my body, a system of cruelty: i’m looking for a date tonight: dinner, drinks, or we can go see a movie. hoping to meet someone interesting for dinner tonite. i drive and we can go or meet at a restaurant... it is the displacement of the limit that haunts all societies; namely, the decoded flows of desire. i’m looking for a date tonight: dinner, drinks, or we can go see a movie. FOR STARTERS, WE WILL TRAVEL TO THE CARIBBEAN SEVERAL TIMES PER YEAR, EUROPE AND EXOTIC COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD. WE WILL STAY IN EXCELLENT HOTELS AND DINE AT THE FINEST RESTAURANTS. you may not believe this, but i actually know a starbucks where we can get an overpriced, over roasted cappuccino and “continue” this conversation before the night. maybe we can have a drinks first.

maybe we can have a drinks first. maybe we can have a drinks first. is there any single female that would like to catch a movie today? just a harmless meeting, if thing goes well we can do something else afterward, like dinner or drinks. you woke up wishing that you were next to someone you love, spent the day having brunch together followed by some shopping in soho, saw a movie in union square, walked across the street to whole foods to buy some groceries, had fun in the kitchen cooking a nice meal together, then cuddled on the couch the rest of the night watching movies and drinking wine until you fell asleep in each others arms. when we meet for a cup of coffee or a drink we can see each other without any strings attached. this psychic melody, this despicable routine; reaching for that unreal, hallucinatory, or delirious form of nourishment. our wretched amusements grew upon hidden, ancient ruins. this trap, i whispered, i am its purveyor. looking for a fun, pretty and affectionate woman for dinner date. with greasy used napkins folded in diamond shape over my elbow, my eyelids heavy, fluttering just above closed to murmur sweetly – open for business – yet still aggressive, efficient, bleached; smiling stunningly from the belly of this dark, safe, predictable mechanism. it was cannibalism! desire is an exile, desire is a dessert that traverses the body, i’m looking for a date tonight: dinner, drinks, or we can go see a movie. * this piece is comprised of three overlapping parts: material appearing in italics has been taken from “anti-oedipus: capitalism & schizophrenia,” by gilles deleuze & felix guattari (1983). additional segments were borrowed from male to female personal ads on craigslist and the remaining text is my own.

VOLUNTEERS Doug Koh - Web Design, Danny Kidd - Lighting , Russ Garafolo - DVD producer, Bright Meyer - Finances, Teman & Teran Evans - Host Emcees, Aehee Kang - Photographer, Carl Goss - Legal, Nate Dorr - Photographer, Mike Galvan - Videographer, Melissa Ward - Music production, Brian Basti - Event Consultant, Susan Whang - Grant Writer, Gene Ekster , Eli Mergel , Daniel Bowman , Simon Chelsea Haines, Jeremy Funston, Walter Meyer, Jennifer Bolstad , Erin Stella , Jeff Geisinger Sarah Ryley - Press Liaison 2009 Sarah Ryley is a freelance journalist living

with her sometimes-Dalmatian in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. Her biggest passion, urban development, was incubated during her time spent living in 14 different cities, including most recently Detroit, the nation’s most perplexing urban conundrum. But she is an artist and writer at heart, having been taught to draw and paint by her uncle, a Louisville painter and gallery owner, since toddlerhood. When not reporting, she can most likely be found exploring the city on bicycle, photographing street art, and walking her dog in Prospect Park.

Alicia Rae Blegen - A displaced Midwesterner who moved here for graduate school, Alicia imbues her projects with earnest folksiness, joy, and memories of her grandmother. Her interests include gendered labor and domesticity, embodiment and performance, and disability studies. Happily, she explores these while working as The Last Supper’s Community Development Liaison.

Coralina Meyer - Creator/Director A Brooklyn based artist and architect, Coralina

Meyer integrates multi-media and social practice into her work as a method of piquing the senses, and stimulating memory. Although media varies in her art, the conceptual rigor, and critical analysis of expression is constant. A foundation of sailing, athleticism, and cultural exploration infused by her mother, a chef, and father, a landscaper and tree farmer, has embedded a deep sensitivity to social, emotional, natural, sensory, and cognitive environments. Creating the Last Supper is a form of artistic expression that delves into experimentation, sculpture, social experimentation, and collaboration. Tom Newman - Film Curator Tom is returning to the Last Supper Festival for the third year as film curator. He earned his Bachelors Degree in Architecture at the University of Maryland at College Park, and a Masters of Architecture from University of Utah, where his studies were primarily focused on the relationship between filmmaking and the architectural design process. He has taught undergraduate and graduate design studios based on narrative media including film and literature. Currently, he lives in Brooklyn working as an architect in New York City. Jim Cronin - Writing Curator, Editor Jim Cronin is a poet and journalist living in Boston, MA, and holds a B.A. from Suffolk University. He is poetry editor and a founder of the White Whale Review, a quarterly online journal of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He has been a regular contributor to various sections of The Boston Globe, The Brockton Enterprise, and other area publications, and is currently a staff writer at a weekly newspaper. Jim has been studying poetry with Boston-area poet and workshop leader Tom Daley since the summer of 2007, and is a member of the New England Poetry Club.

Mary Steel-Hayes - Art Curator Mary Steel-Hayes is an artist and photography

producer. Though originally from Washington DC, she has been based in Brooklyn for the past 11 years, she lives in Bushwick with her husband. After graduating from Parsons Photography, she was disillusioned with the ongoing state of art discussion and presentation. She does not believe in over-intellectualizing artwork, it really should stand on its own without too much explanation. Through curating the art for TLS, she hopes to bring together a group of artists whose work clearly and definitively address issues of consumption and means.

Demir Gjokaj - Production, Budget Director Demir Gjokaj is an equity research

analyst at Majestic Research, a financial research firm that builds unique data sets for clients trading equities. As a a Homebuilders / Real Estate analyst, most of his professional work is focused on research surrounding the residential real estate market. Prior to this position, Demir worked as a policy adviser to the Governor of Hawaii on affordable housing and land use strategy. Personally, Demir carries a ongoing passion for issues around affordable housing, urban growth, and the health of urban real estate markets.

Naomi Sorkin - Partner Liaison Naomi Sorkin finds herself returning for a second

year with The Last Supper Festival in the role of farm/food liaison. A Miami native with a Brooklyn zip code and a severe case of wanderlust, Naomi spends her days straddling the local and global spheres of public health. At present she’s a Masters in Public Health student at Columbia University.

Jeff Rosenfeld - PR Jeff Rosenfeld, Ph.D is a Gerontologist, who researches and writes about older people. He is interested in making Last Supper more of an inter-generational event which brings the hopes, dreams, and political aspirations of older people and younger people together.

Charlie Chiang - Production Charlie graduated the University of Texas at Austin with a BS is sociology and history. Just before graduation, ended up in the Marine Corps Officer Selection Office. While in the Marines, he specialized in military intelligence and served two combat tours in Iraq. When he realized that the Iraqi sun was just a bit too hot to be running around under - with 70 lbs of body armor and equipment strapped to his body - he returned to the states and attended Parsons School for Design. There he graduated with a BFA in fashion design. He is interested in the blending of culture, technology, and design in a way that is still aesthetically pleasing, relevant, and fashionable. Haanwa Chau - Publicity, Advertising Director Born in Larchmont, NY, Haanwa

Chau grew up equally influenced by urban New York City and the woods behind her best friend’s house. By the time she was eighteen Haanwa decided to be a designer. Graphic design was her starting off point. As art director at New Orleans Citybusiness Newspaper she explored the graphical mainstream. Haanwa returned to New York in 2001 to begin an obsessive love affair with New York City. At Parsons School of Design and in Kopenhagen she studied architecture focusing on sustainability, urban studies and multi-family housing. She is always looking at the world around her and thinking up new ways to make it better.

Erika Schneider - Graphic Design A Canadian living in New York City for almost 4 years, she’s inspired by NYC street trash, ripped posters, typography, Stefan Sagmeister, my neighbors in Morningside Heights, survival stories, joggers in Central Park, colored Sharpies, mountain biking over large rocks, trees without leaves, money with notes and pictures drawn on it, life, love, W.H. Auden poems, and ever-changing new favorite songs.

Simon Lange - Guest Chef, Restaurant Sponsor Born and raised in Key West

FL, Simon moved to Brooklyn in 2004 to work on his resume as a chef. In the past five years he become the Head Chef and co-owner of Apartment 138 located on Smith St. in Cobble Hill. By doing so he joined a power house group of native Brooklyn restauranteurs and bar/club owners that run Camp (Carrol Gardens), Bar 4 (Park Slope), Public Assembly (Williamsburg), Cebu Bistro (Bayridge), and Matchless (Greenpoint). His most recent project has been the conception and development of the new kitchen in Matchless. As a group they are always looking for new projects and may even have some in the works. So keep your ears posted and taste buds sharp because they aren’t done yet!

Nic Richards - Music Engineer/ Guest DJ Selector Honey Knuckles (Nic Richards) migrated to Brooklyn from his Southern homeland in 2006. This will be his third year participating in the Last Supper Festival, having been introduced to the event by mastermind, super coordinator, and fellow Floridan friend Coralina Meyer. When not DJing, Richards works as a freelance audio engineer and hip hop producer. He is currently producing an EP with Brooklyn MC Mr. Metro as well as running his home recording studio Skilloughby Productions and scoring independent films. His sets are an eclectic homage to the art of party rocking. Expect a well selected blend of head noddin’ body rockin’ jams mixed as they should be. Claire Bergeal - Development Coordinator Claire Bergeal is volunteering for the first time as community development liaison and all around getting-stuff-done helper for the Last Supper Festival. She and Coralina Meyer share a wonderful and caring stepmother, Susan, and are now rejoicing in their new pseudo-step-sisterhood. Pretty fresh out of college out on the West Coast, where she studied art history at UC Santa Cruz, Claire has worked in several arts organizations and is now Assistant to the Director at the National Academy Museum on Museum Mile, here in New York.