NIKUNJA > THE LAST SUPPER 24H TRANSMEDIA ART PERFORMANCE-INSTALLATION COMING FORTH BY DAY |
In collaboration with Natalia Krevskaya (artistic sculptural cake and taste compositions), Mannee (video-performance), Alain Perret & Mathieu Sylvestre (sound creation) and French cinematograph Jean Marc Selva (real-time digital movie transmssion of Holbein's painting 'Christ in the Tomb' 18 TO 19 OF jUNE 2025 12 NOON TO 12 NOON NONSTOP 24H TRANSMEDIA ART PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION SANKT PAULUS KULTURKIRCHE BASEL (Schweizergasse 23, 4054 Basel) LAST SUPPER 24H TRANSMEDIA ART PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION MIDNIGHT CONCERT BY UNCOPPENSAW FREE ENTRY AND PARTICIPATION WITH FREE TICKET> PLEASE ORDER BELOW P A R T I C I P A T I O N F O R M
**NIKUNJA > THE LAST SUPPER** **A 24H TRANSMEDIA ART PERFORMANCE-INSTALLATION** **SANKT PAULUS KULTUR KIRCHE, BASEL** **18–19 June 2025 | 12:00 PM to 12:00 PM**
Step into a transformative space where art, memory, and transcendence converge. *THE LAST SUPPER* invites you to honor your beloved departed through an immersive, participatory ritual blending taste, sound, light, and collective reflection into a unique art experience out of time.
**How to Participate:** Bring a framed photograph of your loved one and join us at a 12-meter white table, illuminated by triptych video projections and enveloped in an evolving soundscape. You will be served seven sculptural cakes by artist Natalia Krevskaya and her performers — each embodying a supra-mental intuitive stage of the soul’s passage — alongside your choice of water, milk, red wine, or rhum. Sit in silent communion, meditate, and leave traces of remembrance. Find collective communion inside humanistic oneness.
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movie still of Xanadu: The Bastards Dream, scene The Goddess of Death (Mannee performing at the Indian Ocean shores, Reunion Island, 2015, Winter=silence. European sleeping acres, 2018
INTRO - THE HOMAGE The transmedia art performance-installation THE LAST SUPPER is creating a collective and individual “space out of space” in the public sphere for the homage to the deceased person, a family member, friend, lover, by voluntary participants using the enlarged perception of an interactive transmedia art installation to foster a wider awareness and comprehension of Life
THE INSTALLATION
A long wooden table of 12 meters length, 1.25 m wide, rectangular, accompanied by wooden benches without lean along the whole length, offering places to sit on small white cushions for the voluntary and invitesd participants, seated about 90cm apart. The furniture is all painted in white.
The video-images relate to the awareness of death as a process through fluid 7 stages of the soul's disconnection from body, vital, mind planes , its associations, its representations in various cultures, practices, rituals, embedded and superposed into the landscapes and performances composed. Nikunja collaborates with Mauritian performer Mannee (former collaborations for Venise Biennale 2015: Xanadu The Bastard’s Dream and performance piece: The Genesis according to Lilith 2013). The projections are composing a visual dialogue between themselves and the participants, creating a sensation of „passage“ , corridor, across time levels, a passage along the table, and the passage of participants, the passage of deceased persons.
Adjunct to the described core installation are a second table of about 2 m length installed at the head side of the main table in T- form and a painting installation above it, a work by Nikunja in regards to Hans Holbeins Christ in the Tomb. This table will present 7 large sculptural cakes created by Natalia Krevskaya formulating a travel through 7 after=life spiritual existential stages
THE CAKES The especially composed cakes, created by international chief patissier Natalia Krevskaya
(These stages are also the basis for the performance creations for the video images in the projections) These stages are not happening on a defined time-line, but are perceived in a common space of perception and may appear in different constellations: Thus the order by which the participant tastes the taste-creations is not important and is free of choice; it is the constellation of the 7 tastes to each other, which is the content of the culinary experience. Natalia underlines the importance of the cutting, the opening of the body of the cake, as well as the way the servings are being served to the performer-guests. The performative ritual aspect of the whole performance should therefore never be lost. The subtlety of the tastes will thus be able to expand through and transcend the body aspect like the liberated spirit transcend the physical realms. The laminal states of loosing the contours of body, time and space as we learned to perceive during our life-time are reflected in the transmedia installation and the sound cloud.
THE LAST SUPPER PARTITION ( 7 stages) Resistance-Surrender-Release( life pictures-memory-moments as energy) Expanding Peace-Descending Light ( the expanding colour-light tunnel towards outer-body reality) Coming Home ( a non-location you have known all along but forgotten, loss of time and binding condition) Comprehend Life as a whole – clear perception of the soul promise (original will and motivation to enter incarnation) Manifestating Attachments – Detachment – Release ( detachment of conditions, pleasures, physicality, space-time conditions) LoveLight ( Heart-Anahata) as unbound reality (becoming Yourself as existential conscious) Soul's Light – Abode – (transcendental) Stillness of the Non-Manifest (suspension between the stillness, limits and transcendental will of the soul, her limits want her to be reborn again to be able to transcend her limits of being, but this only after a good rest)
THE PAINTING-S
“Jesus in the Tomb” by Hans Holbein the Younger, created in 1521/22, exposed in the Basel Kunstmuseum. Nikunja creates a special painting behind the head table which will be created on loose canvas stretched on wood and holding a middle piece of metal plate.
. *(Nikunja realised several painting works which dialogue with video-projection as light-source since 2004, like Bagdad Sunset exposed Rotterdam, 2004 and more)
During a 24 hour period from noon to noon, the general public and special guests are invited to participate and to bring along the framed photograph of a close deceased friend or relative, s/he would like to honor and render homage to. The person may have been deceased the days, weeks, months or years prior to the event, but the performance-installation The Last Supper
The participants are invited to choose from water, milk, red wine or rhum as drinks. The performer-participants then would take their desired time to taste cakes, drinks, sounds and images and meditate on their memories and life-experiences. There are no rules. The participant may also drip drinks or foods on the white surface of the table cloth and the figurines, as an offer. The performer-participants are invited to stay silent and not to enter conversations during the performance. Otherwise no rests of food or beverage would stay on the table. The four serving performers would offer to the participants a plate with the 7 taste-object-cakes, and take those away, once the participant has finished his/her meditation. The performers serve the beverages according to the choices of the participant. The participants may stay at the table as long as they wish to do so. They may leave the photograph of the honoured close friend or relative on the table for the duration of the exhibition, for ever, or take it home again. They may leave a flower beside the photo, or whatever they feel adequate. During their observations the participant should remain silent. Even in groups, it is better to stay silent. The sound compositions are an integral part of the installation as are the video creations and paintings , all interacting fusing parts of the transmedia installation.
The installation / performance will evolve with every place of exhibition: In addition to the pictures of participants, Nikunja is going to create video-performances in landscapes, cities and with local characters of the place of exhibition; this reflects on art, culture and habit of the place of exhibition in touch with the perception of death. The video-pictures of these NATALIA KREVSKAYA Natalia Krevskaya is belarusian-russian cake artist with experience as a mixologist, Chef, Pastry Chef. Endorphin cakes https://www.instagram.com/endorphin_cakes/
SOUND CLOUD BY UNCOPPEN SAW MANNEE (MAU), ALAIN PERRET ( CH), MATHIEU SYLVESTRE (F), NIKUNJA (CH/F) DIGITAL MOVIE REAL TIME TRANSMISSION JEAN MARC SELVA (F) NIKUNJA
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