The Next Supper: A Dinner Happening by Artist John Bell - Performance Views
Personal Creator
John Bell
Description
A Dinner Happening by Artist John Bell: Be a Guest, the Subject, The Artist, the Star. Nationally emerging artist John Bell hosted "The Next Supper" an uncommon dinner party in which guests are the subject, the art, and the artist. The dinner took place in the cavernous Main Gallery at UMOCA. During "The Next Supper", dining tables were covered with unfinished canvases the artist screen-prints with text and images that serve as both provocation and backdrop. Bell encouraged guests to use their food and other elements on the table including wine, candle wax, flowers, and utensils to react to and complete the canvases. The artist assumed the role of facilitator and documentarian, and the result was a participatory work of art created between the artist and the dinner guests. Performance and paintings on display held in the Main Gallery.
Subjects
Performance art, Dinner parties, happenings
Local Identifiers
14-0181
Title
SLCC Student Newspapers 1984-11-16
Description
Points West, November 16, 1984, No. 31 A
Subjects
Dinner parties, Thanksgiving
Local Identifiers
15-0425
Title
Group Photograph of Three College Employees
Description
Three college employees in professional clothing pose for a photograph against a wall.
Subjects
Photography, Dinner parties, group portraits
Local Identifiers
16-1032
Title
Evening of Honor and Scholarship Dinner 2011
Description
Photgraphs of SLCC's Evening of Honor and Scholarship Dinner including protraits of Distinguished Alums and views of the event held at the Maverik Center.
A group of people are seated at a table during a dinner party. Signs in front of the people identifiy they as from left to right Beverly Sorenson, Bonnie Jean Beesley, James Sorenson and unknown.
Subjects
group portraits, Student Center (Redwood Campus), Dinner parties
