Nesting Newbies is the sole online magazine sponsor of Still Life with Banquet, a crazy cool event that will kick off the even crazier cool 01SJ Biennial, a multi-disciplinary, multi-venue event of visual and performing arts, the moving image, public art, and interactive digital media produced by ZER01. Think art to the max–The Biennial has attracted over 65,000 and has showcased the work of 350 international artists (both emerging and established).
Still Life is a multi-course meal, using mostly local, organically grown, pristine ingredients that will be carefully prepared under the guidance of Chef Kitty Greenwald. Guests will sit at long banquet tables and be served family style. The meal will be accompanied by high-res projections of the meal’s ingredients modeled after Dutch still lives of the 17th and 18th centuries. Artist Grahame Weinbren will surround the diners with images of the life cycle of the ingredients: From soil to emerging into their natural process of growth continuing to their decay and decomposition. The dinner will explore food’s shifting identity — what was once luxurious is now accessible and inexpensive, what is fresh and healthy a bourgeois luxury.
This is what we love about ZER01. Their mission is to inspire creativity at the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture. They make art relevant for today and allow us to EXPERIENCE it in exciting…and crazy new ways.
