MOUNT TREMPER ARTS
by Aimee Walleston / August 6th, 2010
Attending summer dance festivals held in idyllic settings often feels like crashing another generation’s party. Happily, for younger people interested in dance and performance, there is a festival newcomer, Mount Tremper Arts, with a much fresher and far more experimental program than many of its older festival relations. Located in the Catskills and founded three years ago by choreographer Aynsley Vandenbroucke and photographer Mathew Pokoik, the festival composes a fairly ideal weekend trip for New Yorkers to watch a well-curated program of new dance and performance. A determined intimacy makes MTA seem in some ways more like a creative camp than a stuffy performance venue: Vandenbroucke and Pokoik prepare a beautiful dinner every Friday evening, and almost always host an after-performance campfire where everyone gets together to drink and talk amid the chatter of frogs and crickets (of whom, one attendee noted: “This isn’t the city. You can’t call 311 on crickets.”). Last weekend featured a Friday evening performance of a work-in-progress by Katie Workum Dance Theater. On Saturday, choreographer Karinne Keithley showcased a dance, film and text-based piece titled Montgomery Park, or Opulance, which reminded me a little of the visual artist Trisha Donnelly in its pile-up of unresolved evocations. Dancer Katy Pyle performed in both pieces, and was riveting each time. The festival opened this year with a performance by the extremely talented Rashaun Mitchell, and will continue into mid-August with performances by Foofwa d’Imobilité, and Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly. The well-designed post-and-beam performance space also hosts a group show of photography curated by Matthew Porter and featuring the work Hannah Whitaker, who is profiled in the current issue of The Last Magazine. Great taste in photography extends to Vandenbroucke and Poikok’s own collection, which includes a small print of Daido Moriyama’s Stray Dog hung in the kitchen, seemingly lurking for table scraps. And, if you hike to the summit of Mount Tremper you’ll find a view to rival Daido’s: climb its vertiginous fire tower and you will see your future, I promise you.
Photography by Mathew Pokoik
NEW FACES / FALL ISSUE PREVIEW
by The Last Magazine / August 6th, 2010
Model: Clementine Stevens at Next wears Top by Opening Ceremony.
Photography by Martin Lidell
Styling by Zara Zachrisson
Makeup by Fredrik Stambro using Shu Uemura at L’Atelier NYC.
Hair by Fernando Torrent at L’Atelier NYC.
Casting by Natalie Joos.
Photographer’s assistant: Melanie Gessner.
Special thanks to Fast Ashleys and Julie Kauss at The Production.
NEW FACES / FALL ISSUE PREVIEW
by The Last Magazine / August 4th, 2010
Model: Kirby at DNA wears Shirt by LOVE, Richard Chai.
Photography by Martin Lidell
Styling by Zara Zachrisson
Makeup by Fredrik Stambro using Shu Uemura at L’Atelier NYC.
Hair by Fernando Torrent at L’Atelier NYC.
Casting by Natalie Joos.
Photographer’s assistant: Melanie Gessner.
Special thanks to Fast Ashleys and Julie Kauss at The Production.
NEW FACES / FALL ISSUE PREVIEW
by The Last Magazine / August 3rd, 2010
Model: Dafne Cejas at Ford NY wears
T-shirt by Where I Want to Be.
Photography by Martin Lidell
Styling by Zara Zachrisson
Makeup by Fredrik Stambro using Shu Uemura at L’Atelier NYC.
Hair by Fernando Torrent at L’Atelier NYC.
Casting by Natalie Joos.
Photographer’s assistant: Melanie Gessner.
Special thanks to Fast Ashleys and Julie Kauss at The Production.
NEW FACES / FALL ISSUE PREVIEW
by The Last Magazine / July 31st, 2010
Model: Nicolette Wall at IMG wears jacket by Acne.
Singlet and skirt by Guilty Brotherhood.
Photography by Martin Lidell
Styling by Zara Zachrisson
Makeup by Fredrik Stambro using Shu Uemura at L’Atelier NYC.
Hair by Fernando Torrent at L’Atelier NYC.
Casting by Natalie Joos.
Photographer’s assistant: Melanie Gessner.
Special thanks to Fast Ashleys and Julie Kauss at The Production.
NEW FACES / FALL ISSUE PREVIEW
by The Last Magazine / July 26th, 2010
Model: Anaïs Pouliot at Trump
Photography by Martin Lidell
Styling by Zara Zachrisson
Makeup by Fredrik Stambro using Shu Uemura at L’Atelier NYC.
Hair by Fernando Torrent at L’Atelier NYC.
Casting by Natalie Joos.
Photographer’s assistant: Melanie Gessner.
Special thanks to Fast Ashleys and Julie Kauss at The Production.
SALTIE
by Caroline Clements / July 26th, 2010
Earlier in the year I was living in an apartment above a small shopping strip in Brooklyn. On the weekends I would wander past this small white and blue shop front with a wooden garden box holding up a roller door. It was never open the hours I was going to and coming home from work, so it was only on the weekends I could see what it was all about on the other side. It seemed it was all about food. The small, discrete shop front was a humble little cafe with busy women working inside and hungry patrons treating themselves to hearty sandwiches and delicious baked goods. One day I went in and bought some shortbread. It was olive and buckwheat and a delicious collision of salty and sweet all rolled up in a biscuit. The next day I went back for lunch; a crunchy salad of kale, goat cheese and pear.
The following week, I began my endeavor to eat my way through the top ten sandwiches in New York. This little place made number four, the Scuttlebutt: a stacked sandwich of fresh greens, eggs, capers, carrot, parsley and beetroot, lathered together with aoli and slapped between fresh, house-made bread. Owned by local foodies Rebecca Collerton, Caroline Fidanza and Elizabeh Schula, Saltie is dedicated simply to fresh flavours and seasonal produce. It’s a rather small place too, there’s not much room to sit. If you do, this is lucky, ‘cos then you can rest atop a stool with a plate at the ready to catch the drips from under your chin. They also make ice cream and pastries and have a blog called The Gam. The Gam is filled with sweet little color pencil drawings of beetroots, ramps, turnips and the other garden veggies, that are pasted in between posts about how to boil an egg or what they’re doing with saffron.
It’s all rather neat, and I miss it because I don’t live there anymore.
www.saltieny.com
http://thegam.tumblr.com/
Saltie
378 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
Hours:
10am-6pm
TED SOUTHERN
by Aimee Walleston / July 16th, 2010
You probably have interesting plans this summer. But frankly, unlike artist Ted Southern, they probably do not include constructing a functional spacesuit. Southern (an artist-in-residence at Eyebeam in New York) is currently partnering with Moscow-based spacesuit engineer Nikolay Moiseev on a project called Full Frontal Design, and the team is designing spacesuits together. Tonight at Eyebeam, the pair will unveil their newest spacesuit, the “Frontier Prime.” The event will include arm and leg burst tests, limb torque demonstrations, and an interactive vacuum chamber glove box. Here, we speak to Southern about his latest endeavor.
TS: I am not formally trained as a scientist, though certainly I have learned a lot about the physics of pressure, spacesuit history, and anatomy along the way. Autodidactic is a good word for my spacesuit knowledge.
Certainly I owe a lot to Nikolay’s experience at Zvezda [Russia’s contribution to the International Space Station]. His influence keeps me honest.
AW: I think most people regard the building of technology as a science-based initiative. How do feel being an artist relates to that?
TS: I have always felt the two fields (art and science) share a lot, and I find my process as a scientist/engineer is not different from that as of sculptor. As an artist, I have always experimented with different materials, designed things to operate and function, and often tried to build for the human body. Science is a process, a method of thinking, and often artists are required to think scientifically. I think real innovation is often hampered by strict methodology.
AW: Your girlfriend, Flora Gill, designs the women’s collection Ohne Titel with her partner Alexa Adams. Do you two ever match wits?
TS: Flora and I have mutually beneficial interests. We have helped each other think through ideas, source materials and perfect techniques. Thankfully our work is different enough not to compete.
AW: Does the costuming and propping in space movies ever inspire you to create workable models? They had cool gold space suits in Danny Boyle’s Sunshine.
TS: Certainly spacesuit costuming is interesting, I am a fan of Dune‘s
suits, and the Sunshine suits were cool. Unfortunately movie spacesuits never seem realistic to me. I always find where something wouldn’t work or isn’t accurate.
AW: Would you ever want to travel in space?
TS: Yes! I am sometimes scared of rough air at 40,000 feet. But I would definitely go to 400,000 feet.
EYEBEAM
540 W. 21st Street, (between 10th and 11th Avenues)
