2008
Design by Erika Schneider 2008
THE LAST SUPPER FESTIVAL
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The Last Supper Festival is an indoor-outdoor multimedia event occurring annually in Brooklyn, NY during the crux of seasonal change at the end of September. Celebrating the symposium of genres at one dinner table, the show harvests local talent, engages neighboring communities and proceeds benefit the Food Bank For New York City.
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Featuring 13 short films from emerging directors, 13 artworks from budding visual artists, 13 dishes from innovative food artists and music from 7 talented bands and DJ’s. Event hosted by Teman & Teran Evans. Art exhibition September 20th-October 12th.
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History
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What began four years ago as an intimate word-of-mouth dinner party in a small backyard has evolved organically into what is known today as The Last Supper Festival. The event, which falls in late September--thus symbolically marking a change of seasons--is a multimedia experience that challenges the traditional methods of exhibiting and viewing artwork. Instead of singular artistic moments, the festival presents, in concert--just as it unknowingly did at the original backyard dinner party--a range of artistic mediums from local emerging talent including visual art, culinary art, film, performance and music--ie: a stimulation of all five senses. This unique approach to curation blurs the defined creative boundaries, thereby facilitating an exchange and connection between various artists, communities and audiences.
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Our occupation of the landscape is becoming increasingly primed for creative analysis as environmental disasters and socio-economic crises continue to effect our daily lives. The landscape of this upheaval is represented by ongoing events such as the global food crisis, climate change and rising health risks due to consumption. To interpret our environments through creative mediums, especially with an audience of peers, is to spark a critical conversation and invite progressive ideas to the table. The Last Supper works explore themes from local to global landscapes and tackle issues of social, emotional, political and geographic importance.
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FOOD FOOD Eve + Bowie BIO Eve + Bowie are artists who live and work in New York City.
Through conversation and private thought we are engaging viewers to question and expand their perceptions with the firm belief that challenging the way people think can bring about social awareness and change.
Interpretation Objects of Dysconsumption is an exhibition where hard candy
objects are displayed in glass bowls like nuts, snacks, and other party foods. Each object represents an aspect of our society that is not digested or consumed: butter-knives, teeth, bones, and thermometers. These objects are eaten during the event. Participants engage in examining what we choose or refuse to consume.
Kat Korba BIO A ceramicist and sculptor, I’ve been involved with
producing chocolate sculpture for the last three years now. I got started with the chocolate medium due to a friend working at a chocolate factory and we shared our ideas for producing works with chocolate. There are many symbolic reasons that chocolate represents for me. It is sensual, romantic, it reminds me of many good times and I simply love to eat it. Producing Chocolate sculptures for events such as weddings, corporate events, and fundraisers have been a delight for all participants involved. My goal is to be able to make more of them for events in the future.
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Interpretation The participatory chocolate sculptures take on many evocative forms reminiscent of objects in nature. Occasionally resembling nests or eggs, coral or growth clouds, the sensual sculptures are a delight to eat as well as a visual masterpiece.
Title: Chocolate Sculpture Ingredients: chocolate
Title: Objects of Dysconsumption, Candy Stripers Ingredients: cast sugar
Sweet Tooth of the Tiger Kitchen Caravan BIO Kitchen Caravan is web project that brings together food,
culture, history and nourishment. It was conceived as a way to reconnect viewers with the lost techniques and ingredients of their culinary landscape. Our goal is to provide a resource and point of embarkation for people to make their own food journey. Kitchen Caravan merges Sophia’s background in French cooking technique and holistic nutrition, Emma’s work in experimental and documentary film, and their shared passion for history and travel. Emma and Sophia met in their first year Arabic class at Georgetown University in 2001. Being the only two people in the class without a Middle Eastern background, they bonded over their inexplicable love of Arab culture. In the years following, they ventured to desert oases, went bowling on the Nile, and drank avocado juice with honey and cream by the Mediterranean Sea. After graduation, Emma turned her focus to film, and was off to Greece to direct her first movie. Meanwhile, Sophia decided to go to New York City to attend culinary school and study nutrition. In the fall of 2006, they found themselves together again, and were inspired to combine their passions. The result of this collaboration is Kitchen Caravan.
BIO Sweet Tooth of the Tiger is constructed of two rad
women: Alicia Blegen, a sassy Wisconsinite and highly articulate crafty lady/baker extraordinaire; and Tracy Candido, a native New Yorker and savvy independent curator. The ladies share a bond that originated during grad schoolstudying visual culture theory can be heavy stuff, so Alicia and Tracy decided to lighten things up a bit by introducing their sweet goodies to their friends at gatherings. The two loved pairing up and creating happy communities with their delicious confections so much, they decided to start a renegade bakery project, and Sweet Tooth of the Tiger was born!
Interpretation Sweet Tooth of the Tiger renegade bake sale creates
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an atmosphere for open dialogue between neighbors. Using sugar as a catalyst for action, participants will be encouraged to use the positive energy from their sugar high to facilitate a harmonious community. Through the act of discussion, we learn new and exciting things about each other, our environments, and our world.
Interpretation Inspired in part by the local food movement and in part by
what we perceive as a growing need to rediscover the food-preservation techniques of our grandparents’ generation, “Preserving Place” recreates the pantry of the era before mass globalization. The shelves are lined with jars of fruits and pickled vegetables from local farms, preserving the flavors of our harvest. These jars will be eaten and shared throughout the night as part of the celebration. Accompanying the jars is a video installation tracing the course of these foods from harvest to consumption. Still and moving images document the dynamic process of preservation and show attendees exactly where the food they are eating came from. As fruits and vegetables are readily available to us from other parts of the world all year round, we no longer have the need to preserve our late summer harvest. This “convenience” causes a sharp disconnect between us and our landscape, resulting in a lack of respect for the earth and the food it provides for us. Our pantry seeks to remedy this by preserving place, a taste, and a point in time that honored nature’s cycles. Title: Pantry, Free-Standing Shelf Stocked with Goods for Winter Ingredients: -apple sauce flavored with spicebush -tomato sauce -mixed berry jam -dilly beans -kishk (dried preserved yogurt) -cucumber pickles -dried herbs
Title: Sweet Tooth of the Tiger Renegade Bake Sale Ingredients: 2 5lb bags of unbleached all purpose flour, 1 5lb bag of white sugar, 1 box of light brown sugar, 1 box of dark brown sugar, 2 4-stick boxes of unsalted natural butter (like Cabbots), 2 cans of sweetened condensed milk, 1 container of rolled oats, a few lemons, oranges, 2 bags of semi-sweet chocolate chips
Brooke Errett Azul Ceballos BIO Her work combines drawing, video, sound, interactivity, pho-
tography, and installation. She studied Fine Arts in the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. In Argentina she participated of collectives like Objeto Ajeno and Recolectibo, both engaged on Public Art and New Media. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Casa da America Latina in Lisbon, Portugal, National Fine Arts Museum of Buenos Aires and Centro Cultural Recoleta, among other institutions and alternative spaces. She received the Sony Corporation Europe Young Artists Award 2000, juried by the Documenta XI curator Okwui Enwezor. She currently lives and works between Brooklyn, New York and Cordoba, Argentina.
Interpretation The installation is referenced to the leftovers of the last supper and the diner table as a landscape of a shared place. The work takes the end of a banquet as a beginning point with warm evidence, remains and recipes.
BIO After graduating law school at Fordham, Brooke is a
Brooklyn-transplant, now living in sunny Florida, waiting to be a Florida-transplant, living in bodacious Brooklyn again! Unlike her first time being a culinary artist for the feast, Brooke will not be partaking in the ceremonial lamb roast, as she is now following a diet supporting world sustainability. Solving world hunger, one sustainable meal at a time! Please feel free to contact Brooke at brooke.errett@gmail.com to enlighten her of the error in her ways!
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Interpretation The theme of the festival is one by which I live my life:
consumption. We live in a world where sustainability is of the utmost importance. Americans are not alone in their overconsumption of the world’s resources. What many people are unaware of is the extent to which their consumption affects every aspect of existence. A vegan diet is one solution to this problem. You can realize that eating for sustainability does not mean limiting your diet, but opening up your mind to a new world of flavors. Consumption can be sustainable.
Title: The Last Supper Leftovers Ingredients: fruits, vegetables, all purpose flower, sugar, powdered sugar, eggs, walnuts Title: Vegan Quinoa Pilaf Ingredients: earth-friendly, people-friendly, animal-friendly tasty goodness
Sarah Alvares BIO Sarah Alvarez is a chef who pours tradition, care, and love into her dishes. She resides in Brooklyn, and is expanding her knowledge of food studies.
Sweet Deliverance Kelly Geary BIO Kelly Geary is the chef and creator of Sweet Deliverance NYC, she is a graduate of Manhattan’s Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts focused in the practice of slow foods with sustainable and organic produce alongside special-needs cooking and careful preparation for all dietary scenarios. Kelly perfected her craft at the renowned Blue Hill at Stone Barns and was the sous chef at lower Manhattan’s Little Giant. Kelly’s culinary focus is seasonal American cuisine centered around quality local ingredients. Leave it to Sweet Deliverance to bring the best in freshly prepared foods to your table. Unique and delicious food made from hand-selected, local, choice produce. Brought to your residence on a weekly basis.
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Interpretation We celebrate the partnership and mutual commitment
between farm and community and provide a direct link between the production and consumption of wholesome food.
Title: Arroz con Pablano y Crema (Rice with Cream and Pablano Chiles) Ingredients: rice that has roasted pablano chiles , caramelized onions and garlic, corn, mexican sour cream, cheese and cilantro
Reo + Elian BIO Reo and Elian are Brooklyn natives who experiment with
food and wellness on a daily basis. Dishes will include sushi-kabobs and french fare.
Title: French, Japanese Delight Ingredients: skewers, rice, seaweed vegetables
Title: Sweet Deliverance Ingredients: fresh farmer’s market produce
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Tattfoo Tan BIO Trained as a graphic designer, Tattfoo Tan’s art
Amelia Coulter BIO Amelia Coulter was raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
At eighteen she moved Washington D.C. where she lived for two years and worked in a contemporary jewelry and metalwork gallery. She moved to New York where she studied sculpture at SUNY Purchase and started cooking all the time. After school she moved to Brooklyn and worked at a cookie factory and started a food blog, Marinationwide. She is currently working on several culinary art projects and does compulsive research. She continues to be fascinated by food and culture and flatware.
Interpretation I am interpreting the theme as Location, Consumption, Transformation. My cookies address ideas of material culture but they themselves can never last.
practice seeks to find an immediate, direct, and effective way of exploring issues related to the individual in society through which to collapse the categories of ‘art’ and ‘life’ into one. Through the employment of multiple forms of media and various platforms of presentation, Tattfoo promotes group participation between himself and an ‘audience’. Within this collaborative practice both minds and bodies are engaged in actions that transform the making of art into a ritualized and shared experience. In keeping with the spirit of this transformative act, Tattfoo prefers to develop projects that are ephemeral and conceptual in nature.
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Interpretation Bread Rock is an edible sculptural and participatory
art project. I use flour, water, yeast to bake bread. While it is still soft, I hand sculpt the dough to resemble a rock formation. The hardened bread will be fitted into a custom made wooden pedestal to resemble the ancient practice of scholar rock. I then let the audience break the sculptured bread and enjoy it with olive oil accompanied by sake. The partake of this bread invite the participants to see, touch, smell and taste and experience the total immersion of the senses.
Title: Plastic Bag Cookies, Architectural Cookies Ingredients: cookie (chocolate sugar, sugar or gingerbread, with royal icing)
Title: Bread Rock Ingredients: flour, water, oil, yeast, herbs
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Catie Olson and Meg Duguid BIO Meg Duguid is a smiler, a laugher, and a joker. Utilizing
the structures of comedy she explores the role humor plays in culture. Meg received her MFA from Bard College in 2005 and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. She has exhibited and performed at the Chicago Cultural Center, the DUMBO arts festival, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, Flux Factory in Queens, and 667 Shotwell in San Francisco. She has written for Bridge Magazine in Chicago as well as Artillery in L.A.
Interpretation Creating our work using an iterative structure, we let our
play-on-word 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.
Umami Mart Kayoko Akabori BIO A Brooklyn based foodie, writer, and blogger, Kayoko originally hails from California and began the Umami Mart blog as a way for people interested in food to come together to meet, eat, talk, and explore the yummy flavors of our urban environment. www.umamimart.blogspot.com
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Interpretation Umami Mart is a world-wide community where highbrow and lowbrow eaters come together to discuss food matters. We all gotta eat, so share it! “Umami” is a Japanese word, considered to be the fifth element of taste- along with sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Think flavor explosion.
But pie only, it is not… (dot, dot, dot) Our collaborative rapport is as important to the work as the final events themselves. During our process the iterative word piles we create, allow our personal and political lives float to the top as well as letting us frame it through our own diverse experiences with different media and mediums. At first glance our work seems fun, but on closer inspection you will find that we are not only two women creating humorous work, but we also are finding the femininity of pie. Or as we like to refer to it, pieness.--Pieness refers to a more open structure that refers to humor, body, and food simultaneously.
Title: Umami Dish Ingredients: farmers market goods
Title: Duck, Duck, Goose
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ART ART Coralina Meyer BIO A Brooklyn based artist and architect, Coralina Meyer inte-
grates multi-media into her work as a didactic 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, athletecism, 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, social gathering, and collaboration.
Interpretation The “Landscape Bodies” series of photographs evoke a
constant shift in scale between human tactile space, and endless landscape.Skewing perspectives of the body to unidentifiable proportions, these photographs ask the viewer to review and re-imagine their identity and place in the landscape.Our view and manipulation of our bodies is exemplary of our relationship to the environment and the built world.
Title: Continuous Medium: Digital photographic painting Size: 18” x 24” Price: $800
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Christian Nguyen BIO Christian Nguyen was born in Saigon, Vietnam,
1968 and is based in New York City. He received a Masters of Fine Arts at The Graduate Program, Hunter College in 2000. And his Bachelors in Fine Arts from The CooperUnion School of Art in 1990. Mr. Nguyen makes drawing, videos and installation works that use architecture as a way to explore social spaces and human interaction. In this current body of work, “Place of Origin”, he combines architecture and landscape to create imaginary worlds. These structures embedded in landscapes explore how we create spaces that refer to primal, subconscious needs for shelter, and protection at the cost of personal freedom. The barren landscapes mimic the empty spaces, the confinement of the desert mirroring the self-confinement of the constructed world.
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Interpretation When a state of crisis develops, the desire for ritual and
heroism swells in the hearts of those concerned. Some become politicized, calling forth the powers they see dormant in humankind; goodwill, compassion, accountability and action. Others seek refuge in the rituals of their class, creating enemies amongst their fellows, dividing and creating walls around them… I propose a kind of sculpture or installation that expresses this dichotomy . An assortment of drawing, objects and construction that calls to mind a portal, an altar.
Title: Altar of the Mount Medium: Wood, foam, charcoal, canvas Size: Variable Installation Price: $6,000
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Will Walker BIO Will Walker has taught elementary school and learned how
to sheetrock a wall from Ward Shelley. Last year he was a recipient of a Pollock Krasner grant and was featured in AIM27 at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. He no longer lives in Wisconsin, but resides in Beacon NY.
Interpretation Summer lazy, laying a diamond crust of flies on the lake.
The quay abstracts into the night and rises to the edge of the atmosphere. Up among the big nothing, the sun floats away with the warmth of the last days. Cold times, coming.
Title: Untitled (diamond quay) Medium: Acrylic and diamond on paper Size: 26” H x 32” W Price: $500
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Robert Steel BIO Born and raised in the heart of Washington DC,
I’ve always had a fascination with the contrast between the very privileged few who seem to control the world and the masses of dispossed who make their way in the world fighting over the scraps. Today it seeps like that gap is wider than ever with so much money being made and wasted and so many more people being left behind. I know that sitting back and making drawings about it isn’t really going to change anything, but at least it helps me blow off some steam.
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Interpretation This drawing represents the changing physical and
political landscape of the times. Set in the near future in post global warming Paris where models use child soldiers to guard their opulent lifestyles. They beckon the viewer to come in closer with their sexy looks but promise death to anyone who crosses the line.
Title: Zombie Models Medium: Mixed medium drawing Size: 18” x 24” Price: $300
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Agatha Wasilewska BIO Trained at Parsons School of Design, Agatha
Mary Steel-Hayes BIO Mary Steel-Hayes is a photographer working out of Bush-
wick, Brooklyn. After receiving her BFA from Parsons, Mary went on to work as a studio photographer during the day, and an artistic photographer of environments and peculiar people interacting with them by night. She is the “Ma” in the artist duo RoMa Steel.
Interpretation I am not a director or a traditional studio photographer. I
love to photograph performers... hula hoopers, burlesque performers, contortionists, sideshow artists... anyone whose unusual act draws me in. I see my photography as a controlled documentation of what these people do, as well as a reflection of my own awkwardness in life. Through shooting in the studio and controlling the lighting, environment and sets in which they are performing, (not to mention editing!) I am able to see myself in their performance. Title: Heather Holliday Sepia 2 Medium: Photography Size: 24” x 36” Price: $400
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Wasilewska has been exhibiting since the mid 1990’s. Her photographs have been exhibited and are held in various private collections worldwide. Agatha Wasilewska is a practicing artist living in New York City she is also freelance photo editor and producer. Her clients include Nerve.com, Burton Snowboards, Danielle Levitt Photography, Stuff Magazine, Fit Yoga, Elements of Living Magazine and various private and advertising clients. She has exhibited at Maxmara, NY, La Petite Gallerie, Paris, Fine Arts Gallery Madrid, Spain, amongst other galleries. Ms Wasilewska was recently an artist in residence at The National Museum of Art at Krolikarnia War saw, Poland in 2007.
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Interpretation I extend the concept of photography as memory by transforming fragments of nature and structures into a contemplative mediation of a contemporary visual biography. I find it compelling that glimpses of buildings and nature can become markers of memories of time and in their presence embody an absence of the passage of human experience. Our physical surroundings are a constant reminder that we are intertwined with the passage and wreckage of time, buildings weather and age living in the elements of nature, not unlike individuals weathering the passages of the mind. My current work utilizes these images of natural and constructed ‘landscapes’ in order to make visual emotive states. Through the past we come to understand the present. In every moment that passes, the present becomes the past.
Title: Warszawa Meditations, 2008 Medium: Photography Size: Diptychs 10” X 27”, Triptychs 10” X 42” Price: Diptychs - $500, Triptychs - $650
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Jennifer Grimyser BIO Jennifer Grimyser was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wis-
consin. After moving to Baltimore, Maryland, she received a BFA in Photography and a concentration in Book Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2006. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries, both solo and group shows, throughout Baltimore, Chicago and New York. The core of Jennifer’s work consists of text-based images through digital photography and drawing that incorporates portraits and still lives. She currently lives and works in New York City.
Interpretation My work is nontraditional in terms of landscape.
In place of a countryside or snowy valley, I am playing loosely with the definition of the word. I chose to construct my own scenes, individual spaces of similar aesthetic appeal. Still lives are altered offering a new interpretation of everyday views. Assembled objects and scenarios reinvent the concept of a landscape.
Josh Gerritsen BIO Josh Gerritsen was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and
lived there until the age of six. His family moved to Camden, Maine, the other end of the country, where he spent the rest of his childhood until college. He attended Skidmore College and graduated in 2006. Documenting the world around him has been his greatest passion for his adult life. In eighth grade, before discovering photography, Josh brought a video camera with him wherever he went, capturing the life of an eighth grader for one entire year. This began his journey as an artist.
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He continued his passion for documenting the world during college through photography. After graduating from Skidmore, Josh traveled through Southeast Asia for two and a half months to photograph Southeast Asian culture in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, and Myanmar (Burma). He moved to New York City in October 2007, and currently lives in Brooklyn.
Interpretation Much of the world is unseen by western eyes. When
travelers from Europe and the United States visit other countries, they often stick to well-worn paths and tourist attractions that are rarely frequented by locals. The real portrait of the landscape, of the people’s lives in that country, stays invisible. It is in the back alleys, the villages, and the countryside. To get a real glimpse of what is going on, one must take it upon himself to get off the path, close his guidebook, and explore. The photograph that I present in this festival is of rice paddy workers in the heart of Myanmar (Burma). One must travel several hours out of town by car and walk through miles of rice paddies before arriving at this location. These workers are the true people that keep Burma alive. The very existence of Burma relies on rice being farmed on a large scale. However, they are invisible to the vast majority of the world. When a natural disaster strikes, such as the devastating tropical cyclone that hit Burma in 2007, these people are often forgotten unless their plight is captured in a visual medium. Words are not enough. Global warming and the changing world will make natural disasters more and more violent in the future. Recently, we have seen this affecting Southeast Asia the worst. It is imperative that we all pay attention to these disasters and hold governments accountable when they are guilty of inaction. Title: Burmese Farmers Harvesting Medium: Photography Size: 16” X 24” Price: $400
Title: Cityscape, Landscape Medium: Archival inkjet print Size: 14” X 20” Price: TBD
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Sarah Stacke Sarah Walko BIO Sarah Walko is a sculpture/installation/new media artist born
BIO Sarah Stacke grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota
and is now based in Brooklyn, New York, where she moved after graduating from Appalachian State University in 2002 with degrees in anthropology and French.
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 was the Curator of Exhibitions for Savannah College of Art and Design and Starland Center for Contemporary Art, Savannah, Georgia from 2005- 2006, curating exhibitions on the Savannah, Atlanta, and Lacoste, France campuses. She is currently the Executive Director of Triangle Arts Association. She has participated in numerous artist workshop and residency programs and was Art Director the independent film Ever Amado written and produced by Victor Ruano which shown at the 2007 Berlinale International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany. Her last solo exhibition was The Inside of Numbers, Art Space 303, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2006. He last open studios was a part of the Sonya Studio Walk in Brooklyn New York in 2007. She is currently working on new sculpture and film projects.
She began her photographic career as an assistant to Burt Glinn of Magnum Photos. Since her time with Glinn, Stacke’s career has expanded to include a diverse array of independent projects and freelance work. From 2004 to 2008 she worked as a photographer for the Minnesota House of Representatives during the legislative sessions and spent the interim in New York and pursuing assignments is countries including Vietnam, Ghana and Bangladesh. She has also spent time in Haiti, documenting the people, the health care situation, and musician Wyclef Jean’s visits to the programs developed by Yéle Haiti, a non profit established by Jean.
Interpretation “Memory, like the mind and time, is unimaginable without
Interpretation Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and
physical dimensions; to imagine it as a physical place is to make it into a landscape in which its contents are located, and what has location can be approached. If memory is imagined as a real space - a place, theatre, library - then the act of remembering is imagined as a physical act; as walking. To walk the same route again can mean to think the same thoughts again, as though thoughts and ideas were fixed objects in a landscape and one need only know how to travel through. Walking is reading, even when both the walking and the reading are imaginary and the landscape of memory becomes a text as stable as that to be found in the garden, the labyrinth, or stations.” (-Rebecca Solnit) If this walk is a book, it should be read under the rarest form of the imagination.
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Stacke’s images can be found in publications including the Wall Street Journal Europe, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Miami Herald, NEED, Glimpse Foundation, and TRACE. has been plagued by political turmoil and social unrest since its discovery. These images were created in the Grand Ravine, a neighborhood amid the impoverished mountainside communities, collectively known as Martissant, that dominate Port-au-Prince’s southern quarter. Martissant has been the stage for warring gangs, United Nations and police invasions and other political violence for years, leaving the residents of the densely populated neighborhoods, particularly the Grand Ravine in perpetual danger. Residents of the Grand Ravine live in concrete and tin shacks surrounding a rocky streambed, after which the neighborhood is aptly named. The maze of gravel roads is piled with debris and clothing that have been thrown to the ground by rains and wind. When a cyclone tears through this mountainside, the homes are not rebuilt for years, if ever. Most homes do not have running water, sewers or electricity, and the water is supplied through centrally located pumps that the residents use to drink, shower and cook. The landscape of the Grand Ravine symbolizes the problems that Haiti is facing and also the issues that are being contended with all over the world. These problems include, but are not limited to, food shortages, climate change and poverty. Title: Grand Ravine, Haiti #2 Medium: Photography Size: 20” X 24” Price: $400
Title: Walking up a Down Room Medium: Test tubes, microscope slides, glass shelves, matchbooks, peat moss, snails, and a collection of mixed mediums too numerous to name in tiny parts. Size: Dimensions Vary Price: Priced On Request
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Erin Gleeson BIO Erin Gleeson currently lives and works in New York City. Her
photos have been published in Gourmet Magazine, The New York Times Dining Section, nymag.com, PRINT Magazine, and AM New York, among others. She also shoots often for the James Beard Foundation. She exhibits her work regularly and in 2007 was chosen for the PDN Photo Annual. She was also a winner of American Photography 23, juried by Kathy Ryan. Her most recent exhibit is at Lana Santorelli Gallery in Chelsea, New York (Summer 2008). Erin holds an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York and is an adjunct professor of photography at Nassau Community College in NY.
Interpretation By using pages from fashion and lifestyle magazines as back-
drops in my table-top still life set-ups, I use food as a subject to comment on advertising photography. I am interested in how food is presented to us. My photos are about embellishment of food and embellishment of self. If a person or a piece of food looks a certain way, will that alone make us want it? How should it look to make us want it? From the way it’s presented, do we determine its level of attainability? Does it look more desirable if it seems unattainable? I am using an advertising aesthetic to display something that would never actually be marketed in its present form. The food in the foreground is presented as if it were being advertised to look as desirable as the slick backdrop, but with a closer look we realize that the frosting is dripping, the berries are shriveled and it could never quite pass as an advertisement or cookbook image. It looks disgusting yet alluring at the same time. We are supposed to desire that which is so beautifully presented to us on the glossy pages of magazines, yet at the same time, that dress or that body or that house which is constantly dangled in front of us is fantastical and not quite within our immediate reach. I use fashion related props to accessorize the scene, making it more “presentable”... the way a woman might accessorize herself. Images of food on packaging rarely look like the product that’s sealed inside, and the consumer doesn’t seem to mind. If the photo on the box makes it look good, people are more apt to buy it, which makes me wonder if the pictorial representation and presentation is more important that the actual ingredients in the product offered. Through food photography, I question what it is that we are supposed to desire, want and have. These images were shot digitally and the final prints are 11x14 inch digital C-prints. Title: Carrot Cake House Medium: Digital C-Print Edition of 15 Size: 11” X14” Price: $600 Title: Dutch Roof Cake Medium: Digital C-Print Edition of 15 Size: 11” X 14” Price: $600
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BIO My work is based on expressing thoughts visually,
trying to transfer and touch another without words, Art becoming a universal language. English has always been a certain barrier for me, and I enjoyed creating work that could capture ideas, thoughts, etc. without having to explain solely through words. I was born (1975) and raised in South Korea. I first graduated from Korea as an undergraduate mechanical engineer student, and came to America to further my studies. But instead of continuing, I was then introduced to photography by a friend and realized what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
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Deciding to start from scratch, I was once again an undergraduate student, but for Fine Art -- at the Art Institute of Chicago. I knew what I wanted to do was express myself creatively, but could not (to my satisfaction) transfer what was in my head, outwards. Which was when I decided to go to the Rochester Institute of Technology for my MFA. Where I was able to experience all types of mediums, and I no longer feel bound to expressing myself only through photography, but with what represents my ideas fully.
Interpretation Destruction as second nature.
I chose meats into concrete as an evidence of what we did to the Earth. Concrete is used more than any other man made starting materialFine on the We spend most time on concrete rather than Since Art,planet. I have been involved with public exhibitions, and willon soil because wetofeel continue do safety so. in our creation unconsciously. I made combined images as a metaphor of human’s trace and transfer. It explains that the Planet Earth as living beings have been covering it with concrete has been destroyed for human easy assess as well. By the images, readers could be variously reminded of the hope of preserving destroyed ecosystem, the cause and effect of destruction and dualism of human beings. This project made me have a further understanding on the reality of environmental pollution and the need of environment protection activity. shortages, climate change and poverty.
Title: Destruction as Second Nature - Series of 3 Medium: Photography Size: 8” X10” Price: $1,000 (individual)
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Peter Iannarelli BIO Peter Iannarelli, a sculptor and installation artist,
Jennifer Salomon BIO Born in 1976, Jenny Salomon grew up in the Connecticut
suburbs of New York City. She received her B.A. from Brown University in 1998. After various art related work experiences, including Assistant to Head Curator at International Center of Photography and Assistant Photo Editor at the Wall Street Journal, she received her B.F.A. from School of Visual Arts in 2004. Her work has been shown at White Box Gallery, NY; AVA Gallery, NH; Chashama Gallery, NY; and Art Gotham, NY. She is currently participating in Emerge 10 at Aljira: Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ.
Interpretation This oil on canvas painting depicts an older woman in a
suburban-sprawl landscape holding a Styrofoam to-go food container. The painting addresses how our modes of convenience, and our on-the-run consumer culture, outweigh preserving our natural environment. As we consume our landscape with concrete, we seem to use nature for mostly decorative purposes. In the painting, nature is present only through the generic flowers, fully contained in pots and flowerbeds, and through the flower patterning on the woman’s dress. Title: Untitled Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 66” x 54” Price: $4,000
lives in Beacon, NY. He has exhibited his work at the Dorsky Museum, Bard College, University Art Museum at Albany, NY, and the Van Brunt Gallery among others. He is a recent recipient of the Vermont Studio Center Residency Grant and a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant. He is a graduate of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. In 2007 and 2008, he served as the Visiting Artist at Dia:Beacon.
Interpretation Working from the ready-made tradition, I take the objects of everyday life and tinker with them, plumbing both their logic and abstraction to create a dialogue that reveals a subtext that is perhaps their real, alternate or sublime intention. Familiarity becomes the portal to experience and objects are cast from the common place to the status of artifact. The pieces become, in part, an archive of the things we surround ourselves with and how we felt. Viewers are asked to enter a narrative with attentiveness to how the objects of everyday transcend their perfunctory function and engender a new understanding. My work is about relationships and immediacy. Duality emerges as a common thread; working with multiples and sometimes couplets, I’m in search of a common denominator, a shared center or perfect balance. Primarily working from a conceptual practice my work also acknowledges the expressionistic dynamic producing emotional effect and subjectivism. It is this emotional essence that hints of an underlying soul, or if truly successful, reveals one completely.
Title: Like Things Together. Everything Has A Place. Medium: Brooms, glasm cup, styrofoam packing, foam balls, box of Key Food steel wool pads, artificial flowers Size: Dimensions Variable Price: $1,800
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Title: Target Practice Medium: packaging tape, staples, wood, found plastic object, fork, bread string and nails Size: Dimensions Variable Price: $1,000 (includes installation)
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FILM FILM Albena Stoyanova
Miguel Angel Rios BIO Originally from Catamarca Argentina, Miguel Angel Rios is
a multi-media artist who splits his time between Mexico and New York. He has been featured internationally in solo exhibitions and festivals.
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Bulgarian. Lives and works in New York. Likes stories. Especially stories in pictures. Photography is helping her to tell, comment and remember. On the age of 7 she broke her grandfather’s camera trying to load a film and this however didn’t stop her to try again 10 years later successfully. She shoots film and digital. Freelancer. Also contributor for Magazine ONE and Sofia.
Interpretation
This video projection features a man in an elegant white Armani suit simultaneously dancing and twirling “boleadoras” (balls attached to ropes, used in northern Argentina to catch cattle) made with raw meat, threatened by hungry dogs. Charged by its velocity, “Matambre” is conceptually disturbing, visually and rhythmically electric.
Interpretation
Think green. That’s it. No more arguments. Our planet is in trouble. The future of our world is dark and frightful. And it is all our fault. Our cities, machines and pesticides are more than the Earth can handle and our children are doomed to starvation, thirst and environmental cataclysms. Soon they will turn around and questions us: “How come you knew that this is going to happen and you didn’t do anything to prevent it? Why you gave life to people when you already cast them to live on a damaged planet?”
Title: Crudo Length: 3:28 min Category: Video Art
Emma Perret
BIO Emma Perret came to writing “real” stories at the Ecole des
Gobelines, and then at the FEMIS. There she discovered cinema and she wrote Escroc + Escroc, a comedy that was selected at festivals in Dinard, Dublin, Amsterdam and Berlin. She was recently awarded honors from the European jury for her Tout Est Bon Dans Le Cochon at the International Screenwriters Festival.
Interpretation
The characters of this film cope with their dismal situation with fantasy’s of food. The savory nostalgia of meals they once had motivates the group to harvest the ultimate meal. Title: Think Green #1, Think Green #2, Think Green #3 Medium: Photography Size: 12” X 8” Price: See Artist
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Title: No Part of the Pig Wasted Length: 18 min Category: Narrative
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Yoni Brook BIO
Michael Langan BIO Michael Langan grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, where he began his artistic career as a professional stage actor. He returned to his New England birthplace in 2003 to attend the animation program at Rhode Island School of Design, completing “Doxology” as his thesis film. He is currently the director of video and animation at Upper Playground in San Francisco.
Interpretation A series
of vignettes illustrate the elusive and abstract landscape of theology and ritual. The visual journey takes us through an environment that evokes the invisible, yet visceral qualities of spiritual enlightenment.
Yoni Brook, Director/Producer, is an independent photographer and documentary film director. He has worked as a photojournalist at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, and The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal. He speaks regularly about photojournalism and has instructed students at Columbia University. He is an alumnus of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and was selected to attend the CPB/PBS Producers Academy at WGBH in Boston.
Interpretation A SON’S SACRIFICE interprets the Last Supper Festi-
val’s theme of feast and transition through the story of Imran, a young American Muslim who struggles to take over his father’s halal slaughterhouse in New York City. The film explores this family tradition not merely as a means of sustaining their livelihood, but as an art unto itself.
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Title: A Son’s Sacrifice Length: 26 min Category: Narrative
Title: Doxology Length: 7 min Category: Experimental
Laleh Khorramian BIO
Khorramian was born in 1974 in Tehran, Iran and currently lives and works in New York, NY. Her works have been exhibited internationally and most recently her solo exhibition, I Without End, was presented at Salon 94 Freemans (New York, NY).
Interpretation Khorrami-
an’s work uses cinema to explore painting and drawing in time. She uses the discarded as a creative strategy, to consider the transience of life and its cycles of depletion and plenitude. Matter decays, but always recreates itself. Her work often moves between the minute and the massive, and brings out the creative possibilities of this movement.
Treva Wurmfeld
BIO Treva Wurmfeld is a video artist and filmmaker from New
York City. She received her MFA from Hunter College in 2006. Since then, she has worked on a variety of productions. She is currently in post on her first feature-length film, “Texas Heart”, a documentary about heart surgeons and artificial heart technology at the Texas Heart Institute.
Interpretation
Oyster addresses the question: “where does our food actually come from?” The film explores the legends behind the names of food. Title: Oyster Length: 9:38 min Category: Narrative
Title: I Without End Length: 6:35 min Category: Experimental
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Ido Fluk BIO
Alan Webber BIO Alan Webber obtained his M.A. in Media Studies from the
New School for Social Research while apprenticing under director Hal Hartley. Alan’s credits include: Adventures of the Brooklyn Hipster Superhero, Day is Done, and Hawkeye Fever. He is also founder/director of the Rural Route Film Festival, and will be traveling around the world showing the festival out of a backpack.
Ido Fluk was born in 1980 in Israel and is a filmmaker and video-artist. His work has been shown in galleries and museums worldwide. Fluk is the recipient of such awards as the Warner Bros. Pictures film production award, The Israeli Council for the Arts travel and presentation grant and the Jerusalem Film Festival’s Young Director’s award.
Interpretation Cooking for Richard examines the relationship be-
tween food and death. It starts as a fat man washes his post-supper dishes. This will be the last time he’ll wash dishes. The meal was his final.
Interpretation It’s an
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Title: Cooking for Richard Length: 15 min Category: Narrative
alternate take on nature vs. urbanity when a plastic lawn doe finds itself lost on the gritty streets of Brooklyn, NY.
Title: Dear Deer Length: 5 min Category: Narrative
Chanya Hetayothin
BIO Born 1982, Chanya is now a graduate student in animation at the UCLA Animation Workshop. Before coming to study in the United States, she was a production designer for a 3D-animated TV series at Imagine Design in Thailand.
Interpretation
Humans are part of the food chain. Though we try to break the chain and rip off nature, we can see how we cause many environmental problems. Aqualibrae shows the cycle of life through the relationship between living things and waterscape.
Casimir Nozkowski BIO
CASIMIR NOZKOWSKI is a writer, director and Internet stuff-maker. The co-creator of the award-winning website www. cryingwhileeating.com, he has written and directed short films, short documentaries, music videos and commercials that have been seen on cable television, online and in festivals around the world. He is on the board of directors for Rooftop Films.
Interpretation This movie is a look at a conflicted local landscape. Hunts
Point - in the South Bronx - is where a vast majority of the city’s fresh produce is delivered and distributed to the five boroughs. Despite this proximity to healthy food, it is a community that doesn’t reap any of these green benefits Instead, the people there depend on Bodegas as a primary source of sustenance. Title: Bodega Length: 6:30 min Category: Narrative
Title: Oyster Length: 9:38 min Category: Narrative
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Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt Christian Nguyen BIO Christian Nguyen was born in Saigon, Vietnam, 1968 and
is based in New York City. He received a Masters of Fine Arts at The Graduate Program, Hunter College in 2000. And his Bachelors in Fine Arts from The CooperUnion School of Art in 1990. Mr. Nguyen makes drawing, videos and installation works that use architecture as a way to explore social spaces and human interaction. In this current body of work, “Place of Origin�, he combines architecture and landscape to create imaginary worlds. These structures embedded in landscapes explore how we create spaces that refer to primal, subconscious needs for shelter, and protection at the cost of personal freedom. The barren landscapes mimic the empty spaces, the confinement of the desert mirroring the self-confinement of the constructed world.
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Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt holds a BA with honors in Screenwriting from Brown University and an MFA with honors from Columbia University (2007). He served as the co-producer and additional editor of CONTROL ROOM (Magnolia Pictures, 2004). He has also directed, edited, shot and/or produced films for organizations including UNIFEM, The U.S. Department of Education, WGBH, The Global Leadership Campaign, and the Lincoln Center Film Society.
Interpretation The landscape of the Congo serves as a backdrop for this tale of the aspired inheritance of a generation to come.
Title: Les Vulnerables Length: 13:30 min Category: Narrative
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Interpretation The set-
ting of the Whitehouse on the dollar bill is perhaps the ideal backdrop for portraying this foreboding tale of the iconic landscape of a doomed nation.
Title: White House Length: 2 min Category: Experimental
Jorrit Poelen BIO Jorrit is the visual half of the Dutch VJ-DJ duo [moos].
Aside from [moos] performances in the Netherlands (Festival a/d Werf 2006, Tivoli de Helling 2005, Doornroosje 2003), he collaborated with Chicago-based experimental noise groups such as unseen|unknown (Enemy 2007), Flux Bouquet (Schubas 2007, Green Lantern Gallery 2007, Enemy 2008), Estesombelo (South Union Arts 2007) and United Steelworkers Union (AV-aerie 2008).
Interpretation Using a
custom-built video projection instrument, Jorrit makes pixels dance in a seemingly noisy corridor. His piece combines urban, rural, and natural scenes with material from the Last Supper Festival to propose a distorted, abstract landscape that makes sense.
Meg Duguid BIO
Meg Duguid is a smiler, a laugher, and a joker. Utilizing the structures of comedy she explores the role humor plays in culture. Meg received her MFA from Bard College in 2005 and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. She has exhibited and performed at the Chicago Cultural Center, the DUMBO arts festival, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, Flux Factory in Queens, and 667 Shotwell in San Francisco. She has written for Bridge Magazine in Chicago as well as Artillery in L.A.
Interpretation These videos and preparation drawings explore the intersec-
tion of folklore, food, and comedy. Utilizing simple story language, a black and white silent film format, and only one actor for all of the parts, these videos allow for an examination of current social and aesthetic relationships. Title:Lesson: Dinner Length: 4:05 min Category: Experimental
Title: Corridor Category: Video Art Installation
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DJ SeekTen BIO SeekTen was a music lover since birth playing around with her father’s
Dorie Colangelo BIO Dorie Colangelo is 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.
belt driven turntable, his reel-to reel, or the 8-track in the car. Since day one her father encouraged her to buy vinyl and in elementary she school even took records to show and tell. Seek played the piano when she was 5, played the clarinet when she was 10, and sang alto in her high school choir. Heavily influenced by her father’s Jazz, Soul, and Funk records, it came as no surprise to anyone when she fell in love with Hip Hop back in the early 80’s. 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.
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Genre: Solo, Singer Songwriter
Hungry March Band BIO
The Hungry March Band is a 25-piece Brass March Band based in New York City. Put on your dancing shoes and break out the fancy threads because we’ve got the party going on - a blazing parade of flesh, blood, steel, brass and wood. We are the music of the people!
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Genre: Marching Band
Honeyknuckles
Genre: DJ Funk, Soul, Hip-Hop, Jazz
BIO Maneuvering out of bed-stuy brooklyn dj beat nic serves you a
bizzaro circus of ass dropping mischief so you can get silly, smear lamb grease on your naked body and dance all night!
Genre: Beat Music
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The Pleasure Model BIO
The Outabodies BIO The Outabodies are three Emcee/Producers hailing from, New York City. The trio
consists of Skales the Galaxy Raye, Ab Sar Nine, and Youforia Lyfe. The group infiltrated the competitive New York performance scene as a part of The Social Outcast Collective. Who spread out and performed at every notable venue along the northern east coast.
Michael Blizzard and Jay Saint Germain met while working retail together at the Issey Miyake boutique in Tribeca in 2006. Although their mutual interest in music helped them to quickly become friends, the duo never initially imagined forming a band due to their differences in taste and influence. However, they soon realized that common ground existed through hours of tweaking each other’s minds at a boring job and by fall of 2007, they were rehearsing regularly. They were soon joined by bassist Devin Deveaux, a long time friend and former bandmate of Michael Blizzard’s. The trio had immediate chemistry and began developing Jay Saint Germain’s original songs as a full band. Their sound is sexy, raw and gritty, yet refined. ‘The Pleasure Model’ is now performing and recording in New York City. Stay tuned!
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Genre: Rock, Memphis Blues
Mass_Processor
Genre: Hip-Hop
BIO
massprocessor consists of demon doc (Douglas Price) and spase1 (Justin Clavadetscher). Douglas and Justin met in Providence, RI in 1995 and immediately connected as djs. Influenced by classic ragga drum and bass, dancehall, dubstep, grime, and minimal techno, mass_processor was born.
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NightVisions BIO
NightVisions is Jamo and Nick Kay, a Dj Duo originally from Detroit now based in NYC. NightVisions remix and perform obscure dance tracks, favoring bizarre usage of synthesizers found in 70’s disco, 80’s funk and new wave, italo, and acid house. They regularly appear in Brooklyn at their intimate Future of Disco 1983 parties.
Genre: Dj Duo – Remixers Genre: DJ Hip Hop, Dancehall Reggae and Jungle/Drum and Bass
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CONTRIBUTORS CONTRIBUTORS Organizer:
Operations: Coralina Meyer - Creator/Director/Curator
A Brooklyn based artist and architect, Coralina Meyer integrates multi-media into her work as a didactic 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, athletecism, 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, social gathering, and collaboration.
Curators: Erin Stella - Art
Erin was born and raised in New Jersey. Her interested in art started at a young age when her parents gave her a Bob Ross painting set. She was instantly driven to expressing herself in many different creative ways through visual arts and dancing. When she was in high school, her father gave her his Pentex K1000 which introduced her to a whole new way of seeing everything around her. She attended The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and showed her work in varies gallery. 2 years ago, she made the move to New York. Currently, she is the research photo editor at a photography stock house where she has found a balance of utilizing her creativity and vision with her every day job. Her personal work explores varies visual elements that include color, lighting and composition.
Tom Newman - Film Newman 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, Newman lives in Brooklyn working as an architect in New York City.
Devin Deveaux - Music Devin Deveaux has had a strong interest music, art and architecture since he began walking and talking. He excelled in fine art, music, math, physics and architecture while in grade school, and went on to study fine art at the University of Maryland and receive a Master’s degree in Architecture from Parsons School of Design in 2004. He is also a renowned club DJ/producer with several releases on independent and major record labels, including Universal Music. Today he is writing songs for a collaborative live music project, producing a series of digital prints and working as an architect in New York City.
Stephanie Periera - PR Stephanie Pereira believes in making it happen. She is an arts administrator, social organizer, and curator who conceives and enacts her projects through conceptual actions, social installation, and web / print media. She has curated / organized shows with and for visual artists, dancers, performance artists, teachers, students, writers, museums, and music venues. Read more at malcat.googlepages.com.
Erika Schnieder - Graphic Design Erika Schneider is a Canadian living in NYC and is inspired by the following: street garbage, ripped posters, signage, Stefan Sagmeister, survival stories, really green things, runners in central park, the Q tonic water label, the ‘Design for the Elastic Mind’ exhibit at the MOMA, colored Sharpies, Emmanuel DeMeules, mountain biking in Westchester, BSB, trees without leaves, money with notes and pictures written on it, life and love and W.H. Auden poems. www.erikaschneider.com Haanwa Chau - Graphic Design
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. Currently, Haanwa spends her days at Platt Byard Dovell White Architects in Manhattan. She has a license to experience as much of New York City as humanly possible.
Susan Whang - Grants/Donations SUSAN WHANG, an organizing volunteer of The
Last Supper, is a Park Slope resident and locavore advocate who has adopted Brooklyn as her home away from home. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Susan is an urban child of mom-and-pop businesses, public schools and keeping it real. During her years living in the Bay Area of Northern California, she worked in the non-profit sector ranging from children’s educational advocacy to fundraising and development at the San Francisco Symphony. While Susan is off-hours as an interior designer at a hospitality firm in Manhattan, she likes to dedicate time as a volunteer tutor at Brooklyn’s 826NYC and the Park Slope Food Co-Op.
Karen Bookatz - Press Karen Bookatz is a freelance journalist for various print and
online publications, among them Style.com, Paper Magazine, Whitewall Magazine and Heeb Magazine. She received a B.A. in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania and a M.A. in Art History from Columbia University.
Naomi Sorkin - Grants/Donations Nick Kothari & Nick Richards - AV Coordinator/Engineer Sarah Pollack - PR Chuck Hadad - Press Russell Garofalo - DVD Producer Walter Meyer, Jennifer Bolstad, Bright Meyer - General Justin DeLeon - Lighting Joseph Foglia - Construction Brian Basti - Event Consulting
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SPONSORS SPONSORS BROOKLYNCREATIVE CREATIVE BROOKLYN
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Special thanks to the Brooklyn Arts Council for their outstanding effort in providing curatorial assistance for the festival. We are honored to show 4 films that have celebrated there Brooklyn premiere at the Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival (Aqualibrae (2008), Oyster (2008), Doxology (2008), and Cooking for Richard (2006)). Furthermore, a special thanks to Agnes Murray for her dedication and for encouraging the collaborative spirit within our art community.
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