live performance, wtih artist Lisa Marie Thalhammer
location: Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC
Press Release:
Baby, it's COLD OUTSIDE! As part of Transformer's Summer Camp program (Feb 7 - March 7, 200), this Friday DC-based artists Kathryn Cornelius and Lisa Marie Thalhammer heat things up with SOUP KITCHEN, serving a FREE meal of soup and bread to ALL. Join the artists at Transformer as they fill bowls, slice bread, and entertain guests with an event that addresses the relationship of art and community service with the common concerns of our current economic situation, in the format of a communal experience.
*All remaining food items will be donated to S.O.M.E. (So Others Might Eat), a local non-profit outreach program located next to the O St. artists live/work space.
image above: soup kitchen press release image
"We can start the country over from scratch...Can you see the Blue Room with Campbell's Soup Cans all over the walls? Because that's what Foreign Heads of State should see, Campbell's Soup Cans and Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe. That's America. That's what should be in the White House." - Andy Warhol, 1975
image above: performance still
"Warhol's Campbell's Soup cans were a brilliant parody of art in the same way that Campbell's Soup is a brilliant parody of food." - Craig Kilborn during The Daily Show
image above: the artists with Soup Kitchen cans
"Who knew that Campbell's Soup still existed? The only reason they are probably still in business is because Andy gave them a place in pop culture history that will forever be celebrated as some of the best art work ever created." - a Pop Burger rep on the 139 year-old soup company
image above: performance still, singing the "Junior Birdman" camp song with guests
image above: performance still, singing the "Junior Birdman" camp song with guests