New York Foundation for the Arts project
For Immediate Release
Project Title: Lunchtime Training with Julie Perini
Date and Time: Saturday, June 21, 2008, 1:00pm
Location: Buffalo Central Terminal, 495 Paderewski Drive, Buffalo, NY
Julie Perini, a 2007 Fellow with the New York Foundation for the Arts, will bring her interdisciplinary art practice to the Buffalo Central Terminal on Saturday, June 21 at 1:00pm. Her event, Lunchtime Training with Julie Perini, will involve an audience of between 20 and 50 people from the Buffalo community. The event takes place at the Buffalo Central Terminal. The artist welcomes anyone who would like to participate.
To honor the history of the building, Perini has designed a participatory event for The Terminal. When the audience arrives, they will see a long banquet table occupying the center of the main concourse of The Terminal. Each audience member will be given instructions at his or her seat, along with an ingredient for a summer salad. The audience members will pass large bowls down the rows of the banquet table, filling them with their ingredients, simulating a “train” picking up passengers as it moves along a line. The bowls of food will meet in the center of the table and then the audience will have the opportunity to enjoy the lunch that they have helped to create.
While the audience members eat their lunch, Julie will do a presentation about Lunchtime Training with Julie Perini and other projects that involve audience participation. She will discuss her influences and her reasons for involving audience members directly in her live events. This presentation fulfills of the Artist & Audience Exchange project requirement for the NYFA Individual Artist Fellowship.
More info: www.julieperini.org/events/terminal.org
Email: julie@julieperini.org
