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Last Supper Salon: 
Pick Your Own Installation
Bushwick . Brooklyn, NY

The Last Supper is a multimedia, project-based collaborative festival that addresses the act of consumption. Viewing the creative process as a cyclical, communally interactive conversation between media, it is a non-profit benefit event for the Food Bank of New York City.

Slippery Slope Farm’s Pick Your Own installation demonstrates a modern perspective on growing food in the city through the practices of sub-irrigated planter systems (SIPs) and nutrient density.  No offense to all the urban gardens that have taken root on rooftops and empty lots all over the city, but given the challenges of urban living, soil contamination and climate change, why are most people farming as they were still in the country?

SIPs offer a better, more accessible and environmentally sustainable alternative to conventional urban gardens. Anyone with a fire escape, small backyard, or rooftop can create temporary, portable, nomadic gardens.  From your micro-farm to your table—pick your own.

Ingredients: Sun, water, potting mix, #5 containers and window boxes, up-cycled water bottles and nursery flats, corrugated perforated HDPE drain pipe, electrical conduit

More about Last Supper

The Last Supper is an indoor-outdoor salon of ideas occurring in NYC during the crux of seasonal change in September. As a feast for the senses and a symposium of genres, the gathering kindles the creative miasma infused by the city’s autumnal shift, harvesting the cornucopia of media in our own backyard and sparking an atmosphere for open dialog and collaboration. Short films and works from emerging directors and artists, edible installations from creative culinarians, performance, new media, design projects, writing and music from several local bands and DJ’s grace the dinner table. Each year, the show sparks dialog about consumption by curating projects based on a theme of global and local import. At the 2010 feast, more than 50 creators and volunteers gathered to discuss ideas about “Self-Made” with an audience of peers to evaluate our state of consumption.

-via www.lambastic.com
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photography: www.stevenboling.com

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