Please join Cabinet for
SUPERFUNDRAISER!
Date: Thursday, May 31, 2012, 7 pm to midnight
Location: 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn
Cocktails and four-course dinner, devised by Keil Borrman
With special guests Steven Featherstone and Peter Galison
Tickets available here or by calling (718) 222–8434. Seating limited to 40 guests.
Adventurers of the palate, Cabinet invites you to the table as we reimagine our heretofore annual benefit as a new series of convivial, intimate dinners. Food, always a favorite theme here at Cabinet, will be investigated by eating what we are thinking about: invited chefs will present their theses in culinary form, guest-interlocutors will enliven the argument, and new artist multiples will serve as special mementos of the evening.
For our first dinner—which takes its cue from the nearby Gowanus Canal, whose famously toxic waters recently led the Environmental Protection Agency to designate it a Superfund site—Cabinet presents an evening of delectable food and thought-provoking conversation dedicated to disaster ecology and the aesthetics of contamination. From nuclear no-go zones to the polluted margins of industrial ruins, from Chernobyl to Love Canal, nature and culture now hold each other in new and knotty embraces. Lush jungles push up from the sequestered soils of radioactive storage facilities. Weedy species recover the blasted urban hearts of polluted rust-belt towns. What awaits us in this new terra incognita of our own making?
Scholar and filmmaker Peter Galison, whose current research examines wastelands and wildernesses, will propose a toast to the resilient flora and fauna of the world’s environmental disaster zones as guests sit down to Keil Borrman’s feast of creatures gathered from land, water, and air. And journalist and photographer Steven Featherstone will join us to discuss his recent trips to investigate the ecology of Chernobyl’s "Zone of Alienation." We hope you will support the magazine by joining us to raise a glass to what survives, and even thrives, against the odds!