Julie Lara Kahn is an interdisciplinary artist who incorporates photography, film, food and vernacular objects into participatory art projects. Her work blurs the boundaries of performance, visual art, and the marketplace, ranging aesthetically from a tasting of 150 undulating rows of breakfast cereal to a videotaped focus-group of Miami cereal stories to a set of baseball trading cards of the Miami art community. By luring viewers into the creative process through the taste of a childhood food, an unexpected interaction, or the quiet pleasure of olfactory sensation, she coaxes viewers into sharing vulnerability, awakening intimate personal memories and responding both intellectually and emotionally to questions about connectedness – to body, family, corporation, community, land and food chain. Julie Lara Kahn graduated from Harvard with an MBA and a BA in East Asian Studies. She has worked as a disc jockey in Japan, an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, an A&R administrator at Columbia Records, and a freelance producer for Annie Leibovitz. She draws on these corporate experiences to raise questions about how marketing and consumption replace our authentic stories with manufactured corporate narratives – ultimately affecting our sense of connectedness, community and identity