PARALLEL WORLDS & PRE-HALLOWEEN!

OCTOBER 26 THURSDAY @ 8PM. PARALLEL WORLDS - Performance by Tobi Mohring & Michael Philips.
see previous 10/8 posting for more info

OCTOBER 28 Saturday . PRE-HALLOWEEN FETE!
7pm Garden Open - Visit the Hall of Mirrors
Ongoing Screening of Garden Crawl by Robert Ladislas Derr - an all-terrain portrait of Petit Versailles created this summer.

8pm Screening - LPVTV Episode #13
featuring it/EQ's "The Emperors Premiere", Kalup Linzy "Diva In Distress", Gender FluXXXors Uncoded trans!atlantic dialogue,
Seraphim B Penumbra at the Marquis and Peter Cramer & Jack Waters in "War Is Ovah, If You Want It Or Give Peace A Break!
(LPVTV is our weekly cable show on MNN Channel 56 - Sundays @ 11pm)

9pm Performances
Joseph Keckler - Joseph Keckler is a hammy depressive, multi-media visual and performance artist, essayist, playwright, actor, divo and chanteur-- the "beautiful androgyne who sings the blues" (The Guardian). His work has been produced at HERE Arts Center, Joe's Pub (Public Theater), The 11th Annual Performance Studies International Conference at Brown University, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and on numerous occasions at Galapagos Art Space and Dixon Place Theater. Joseph can regularly be seen performing in a variety of NYC nightspots and singing principal bass-baritone roles at the Amato Opera Theater.

Edgar Oliver - Playwright, author, actor. Edgar’s own plays have been staged in many downtown theatres in New York. His novel, The Man Who Loved Plants, published by Panther Books, is available in bookstores or online at www.goodie.org.
He will soon be appearing in two independent feature films, That’s Beautiful Frank and the Axis Company production Henry May Long.

"Edgar Oliver is an enchanted navigator of longing, loss and memory. We follow his path, strung with jewel-like language, to his strange, compelling and unique vision. Enter his oasis of beauty, where we encounter the most sublime essence of art and humanity." – Penny Arcade, writer and international performance star


ON VIEW in the garden - T(re:)e of L(if)e - A Gift to Aten by John Pavlou. A Site specific Installation @ 2nd Street Entrance.
Also PARALLEL WORLDS by Tobi Möhring & Michael Philips.
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LOOK for DAY of the DEADLY..R:ass/erection!.
November 1 @ 11pm until u rise up again!
Installation & performances by Petit Versailles & Inbred Hybrid Collective.
@ SLURP/COCK! 29 Second Avenue

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Events are made possible by Allied Productions,Inc.,
Gardeners & Friends of LPV,Citizens for NYC, GreenThumb/ NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts; NYC ,Dept. of Cultural Affairs,NYC Dept. of Sanitation & NYC Board of Education. and Manhattan Neighborhood Network. LPV Programs are made possible with public funds the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency
www.alliedproductions.org

Reschedule of PARALLEL WORLDS

The sculptures for Parallel World by Tobi Mohring and Michael Philips have been delayed due to US Customs and new HomeLand Security procedure. Unfortunately Parallel World performance cannot be done without the sculpture as they are essential characters in the "play" . WE are forced to reschedule the performance to THURSDAY OCTOBER 26 @ 8pm.

HOWEVER we are pleased to present the documentary
BOOM- The Sound of Eviction
by Francine Cavanaugh, A. Mark Liiv, and Adams Wood.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 20
Screening @ 8pm.
Le Petit Versailles Garden
346 East Houston St.
Rain or shine...
212 529 8815

Enthralled by dreams of instant wealth during the dot-com boom, the world largely ignored the disastrous housing crunch that plagued San Francisco - "Mecca of the New Economy."

Now the bubble has popped and most of the startups are gone, but the tidal wave of gentrification that came with the new industry has changed the city's landscape forever. This new documentary takes stock of the dot-com boom and bust and asks the question - Who benefited?

 By turns humorous and scathing, Boom delves into the ironies and contradictions of the "New Economy" and delivers a potent social critique that is ambitious in its scope while remaining close to the human scale. The viewer moves easily between dot-com party crashing at one end of the economic spectrum and painful moments with evicted families at the other. Boom features interviews with dot-com workers, real estate developers, and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, as well as those who challenged the new economic order through community organizing, electoral politics, and direct action.

Boom - The Sound of Eviction  (96 minutes, DV, Color) Directed by Francine Cavanaugh, A. Mark Liiv, and Adams Wood. Produced by Francine Cavanaugh, A. Mark Liiv, Jeff Taylor and Adams Wood/ A Whispered Media Production
http://www.mountaineyemedia.org/

Our thanks and gratitude to the fillmmakers for allowing us to screen BOOM.

Events are made possible by Allied Productions,Inc.,
Gardeners & Friends of LPV,Citizens for NYC, GreenThumb/ NYC Dept. of Parks,Materials for the Arts; NYC ,Dept. of Cultural Affairs,NYC Dept. of Sanitation & NYC Board of Education. and Manhattan Neighborhood Network. LPV Programs are made possible with public funds the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency
www.alliedproductions.org

PARALLEL WORLDS

PARALLEL WORLDS
performance and exhibition
by Tobi Möhring and Michael Philips
October 20-27, 2006

opening/performance: Friday October 20, 8pm

Le Petit Versailles Garden
346 East Houston Street < Avenues B & C >
F / V trains to Second Ave. Walk east on Houston St. or
J / M trains to Delancey. Walk northeast to Houston St.
Rain or Shine. FREE or voluntary donation.
Press contact: Peter Cramer 212-529-8815
www.AlliedProductions.org www.LPVTV.blogspot.com

The community garden movement in New York City has been an important step towards the transformation of a city into a more humane place, by the people and for the people. All the time, community gardens have been endangered by the gentrification process in the inner city areas. But even though the people who created them had a different idea, they were also part of this process: With all those nice green spaces instead of wastelands full of garbage, the neighborhoods were becoming nicer and more attractive—unfortunately also for an affluent clientele, who are invading these neighborhoods and turning them into yuppie areas.

Inspired by this situation, the Berlin-based artists Tobi Möhring and Michael Philips had the idea to do a performance and art installation in Le Petit Versailles community garden.

The conflict between system-conforming mainstream people, and people and cultures that don’t fit into the real estate market is the theme of their performance. It revolves around the questions:
- Does communication between these parallel worlds make sense?
- Or have these two worlds so irreconcilable interests, function in such different systems, that either of them will always be a threat for the other and the only option is a permanent struggle?
- And: What would be the price for assimilating into the system?

For the performance, the artists created big metal sculptures which represent characters from these parallel worlds.

The performers interact with the sculpture ensemble as additional, living sculptures. Based on original quotes by town planners and politicians about the task of "cleaning up the cities", they create scenes around the conflict between these parallel worlds. In these more abstract scenes, they try to find images that symbolize some of the above questions.
Both artists are part of the queer movement and work about gender issues. They’re also activists in the struggle against gentrification.

ONLINE GALLERY: http://orangegecko.de/parallelworlds



Events are made possible by Allied Productions,Inc.,
Gardeners & Friends of LPV,Citizens for NYC, GreenThumb/ NYC Dept. of Parks,
Materials for the Arts; NYC ,Dept. of Cultural Affairs,NYC Dept. of Sanitation
& NYC Board of Education. and Manhattan Neighborhood Network. LPV Programs are
made possible with public funds the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency
www.alliedproductions.org

Poetry & Film @ LPV

POETRY & FILM
Le Petit Versailles
346 East Houston Street < Avenues B & C >
F / V trains to Second Ave. or J / M trains to Delancey. Rain or Shine. FREE or voluntary donation.
212-529-8815 www.AlliedProductions.org

Saturday OCTOBER 7
7 PM READING – Evan Kennedy & Corrine Fitzpatrick. Celebrate publication of US THEM POEMS!
9 PM SCREENING - Hey-Jeun Jang
“Flickering” 2006 Projection Installation & other Filmworks


Dear Friends and Enemies of Contemporary Poetics,
Times are evil, yet you are beautiful. In order to persevere through the latest round of grisly news, let us turn to fanciful, poetic diversions. I have tried my best with a newly published chapbook, "Us Them Poems," available from the charming miscreants at BookThug press. It is an admirable venture on their part, slaving and stapling in the caves of Toronto under the radar of Homeland Security.
But who, citizen, is "us"? Who is "them"?
"Us Them Poems" is a series of twenty prose poems about those who carry out a secret agenda and those who all of a sudden and unavoidably find themselves in dissent. Whistle blowers confront bell ringers, spoon benders battle restaurant owners, umbrella makers cast suspicious glances at parasol designers, and seventeen additional moments are pushed to a crisis. As these poems illustrate in a fusion of Donald Barthelme and Gertrude Stein, it has come time to pick sides, as even the yawning and thumb-twiddling are called to take loyalty oaths. "Us Them Poems" is a field guide, a how-to manual, a wartime ration book, a directory of unseen craftsmen overlooked in contemporary American poetics. If war is the destruction of good restaurants, as Pound maintained, "Us Them Poems" is the three course meal that has been prepared, though the shrapnel has yet to be picked out.
So let us pause in our mudslinging and count our tears, though "Us Them Poems" has already done it for you: there are twenty, friend, and each is a tiny (meaningless?) triumph over the machine we've wanted to throw our bodies upon.

Artist Statement - Hey-Yeun Jang
My works are about “in-between”. They can be about the world between two blinks of the eyelids, sorrow between two heart-beats, eternity between two foot-steps, or verbal cliché between two breaths. They draw attention to spatial, temporal and dimensional aspects of “in-between”, so my works have ranged from photo, film, sculpture, language, text, performance, installation and drawing. Among a wide range of media, I use film often as a medium to explore because it captures unconscious, unanticipated, fleeting moments for eternity. It enables my thoughts to float and new form and technique to induce a closer approach to the meaning of my work.
Slide projection installation “Flickering (1995~2006)” started with 34 frames of my eye image that was filmed accidentally 11 years ago. 34-frame is less than two-second-length of film when it’s run, but I open up the gap between frames, space between appearing and disappearing and space where presence and absence coexist.
“Flickering” is filmic drawing that is about . The moment the viewer look at it, they are looked by it at the same time. It starts with physical notion and reaches abstract landscape of the mind. It is metamorphosed and expanded from two-second-film to nine minute motionless moving image.
Hey-Yeun Jang is Korea-born, New York based artist. She has exhibited widely in museums in the U.S and abroad. Within last few years her work has been featured at Haus der Kulturen der Welt(Berlin, Germany), Wurttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany), Carrillo Gil Museum (Mexico city, Mexico), Centro Cultural Tijuana(Tijuana, Mexico) , National Museum of Contemporary Museum (Korea), Museum 63 Artist Commune (Hong Kong, China) and Queens Museum (New York, USA). Her film has been screened at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Anthology Film Archives, Los Angeles County Museum and Berkeley Art Museum. Her exhibition has received many reviews including Art in America, the New York Times, New York Arts, Berliner Zeitung, Stuttgart Zeitung, Taipei Times.


Events are made possible by Allied Productions,Inc.,
Gardeners & Friends of LPV,Citizens for NYC, GreenThumb/ NYC Dept. of Parks,
Materials for the Arts; NYC ,Dept. of Cultural Affairs,NYC Dept. of Sanitation
& NYC Board of Education. and Manhattan Neighborhood Network. LPV Programs are
made possible with public funds the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency