Thursday, October 29, 2009

Feast of Freaks

Performa 09 Gala Dinner



Jennifer Rubell is throwing a gala dinner Friday night for the opening of Performa 09, a festival of performance art that starts Sunday. Some things at this dinner include giant chocolate covered rabbits, apple trees and honey dripping from the ceiling onto ribs. Here are some things Jennifer Rubell said about getting the meal ready--she is the niece of Steve Rubell, who owned Studio 54 where Andy Warhol went a lot:

"I’ll go over there and he and I are going to lie the bunnies in the back of his minivan and put a duvet on top of them and bring them over to the X Initiative space. We’re going to stand them up, surround them with newspaper and then Jacques is going to spray a final coat of chocolate directly on to them."


"Mr. Wickham from Cutchogue, Long Island, is now going to drive the trees in in two trucks on Thursday. He has this new plan to dig them up by the roots and then with a chainsaw cut the roots off with a chainsaw once he arrives, which I think is so great."


"The next hurdle is going to be setting up the ribs under the honey trap—and getting dressed."


3 comments:

sasha fletcher said...

that sounds like the coolest party ever in the whole world.

Egg Off-Kilter said...

I thought so too! I would like to see honey drip from the ceiling.

Egg Off-Kilter said...

Jennifer Rubell talks a lot about chainsaws. Also, Malcolm Gladwell talked about chainsaws at his New Yorker talk. What is it with chainsaws lately?