IMAGESCAPE - Halloween @ Petit Versailles

IMAGESCAPE - Le Petit Versailles
a video installation
by Ursula Scherrer

October 31 - Halloween! 6 - 10pm
*live music @ 8pm by Michelle Nagai*
FREE

le petit versailles
346 East Houston St. < ave.b & c >
212 529 8815 www.lpvtv.blogspot.com
Petitversailles@earthlink.net

Ursula Scherrer - Imagescape - Le Petit Versailles.

I am attracted to what is fleeting, what can't be captured, the moment between what is past before it is recognized as a memory.

A projection is both there and not there. One can touch the surface of a projection, but feels only the plain surface, not the image, color or shape within the projection.

My interest is to push the way we encounter video projections. My goal is to go beyond the surface I project onto, beyond the projection itself, having the trees and surrounding walls become part of the projection as much as the projection is a part of the trees and walls.
I will illuminate the garden with multiple projections. The projections are of water flowing upwards towards the sky, of shiny raindrops dripping, resembling fireflies and of light reflecting on water, transforming the trees into a sculpture that is moving from within.
Using footage from natural sources and abstracting them by slight manipulation of the contrast and speed extracts the essence of the innate shapes and rhythms of the ever changing movement in nature.
With Imagescape - Le Petit Versailles the visitor will be transposed into the realm of magic.

My Imagescapes investigate the way we experience what we see. My installations stage a play between the actual motion inherent in a physical landscape with the motion of a projected, pre-recorded landscape.

Michelle Nagai is a Brooklyn-based composer who utilizes sound, physicality and concept to create site-specific performances, installations, radio broadcasts, dances and other interactions that address the human state in relationship to its setting. Nagai's work has been presented throughout the US, Canada and Europe. She has been supported by the American Composers Forum, Eyebeam, Harvestworks, the Jerome and McKnight Foundations, Meet the Composer and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.


LPV events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc.,
Citizens for NYC, Green Thumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts;NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation & NYC Board of Education
Film & Exhibition support from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Additional support, in part, by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs

NEW VISONS CINEMA October 20

THE NEW VISION CINEMA SERIES AT LE PETIT VERSAILLES
Saturday, October 20, 2007
8 PM
346 East Houston Street (Avenues B & C )
FREE/ Voluntary DOnation
22 529 8815
http://www.lpvtv.blogspot.com
petitversailles@earthlink.net

F / V trains to Second Ave. Walk east on HOUSTON St. or
J / M trains to Delancey. Walk northeast to HOUSTON St.

PROGRAM
1. IRENE by Tim Reardon (DVD, 4 min., 2007)
2. DOC SOLARIS: MAN OF THE FUTURE by Michael Park (DVD, 8 min., 2007)
3. WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK by Ryan Claypool & Austin Smith (DVD, 19 min. 11 sec., 2007)
4. WESTERN by Lili White (DVD, 14 min., 2007)
5. HOBO’S HOME by Noe Kidder (DVD, 5 1/2 min., 2005)
6. THE CONNECTING WORLD by Ian Dickey (DVD, 15 min., 2007)
7. BLUEBIRD SEWANEE by Athena Soules (DVD, 21/2 min., 2006)
8. FRANCIS: THREE-PART HARMONY, PART 1 by Kelly Sebastian (DVD, 18 min., 2006)
9. SCARLET PETALS by Mike Kuchar (DVD, 6 min., 2007)
10. AGNUS DEI by David Finkelstein (DVD, 9 min., 2006)



LPV events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc.,
Citizens for NYC, Green Thumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts;NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation & NYC Board of Education
Film & Exhibition support from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Additional support, in part, by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs

THE ORANGEACLE ORACLE

Year In Rainbow and Eric Schmalenberger present
THE ORANGEACLE ORACLE
October 13, 2007
2pm-5pm at Le Petit Versailles
346 East Houston St at Avenue C

AS THE DEAD LEAVES FALL, SO DOES YOUR PAST, COME FIND YOUR FUTURE AT THE ORANGEACLE ORACLE
THE ORANGEACLE ORACLE is a orange urban oracle comprised of priestesses and priests of the modern world. Follow the orange vapors to the intimate garden oracle of the Lower East Side. Hear what some of downtowns most psychic performance artist have to say about your future, and the truthful magic of the color orange. Give orange birth to the child that is your life at Le Petit Versailles on October 13, 2007 2pm-5pm.
A YEAR IN RAINBOWis burlesque performer Darlinda Just Darlinda's foray into the "living art" milieu. From August 1, 2007 to August 1, 2008, Darlinda will explore the colors Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Purple both individually and together as a six-colored Rainbow. On even-numbered months (August, October, December, etc), Darlinda will wear a single color for the duration of the month, and produce a show inspired by that color. On odd-numbered months (September, November, January, etc) she will wear all rainbow every day."A YEAR IN RAINBOW is about collaboration and exploring new mediums through color and human portrait," says Darlinda, " But it's also an art/social experiment to see what kind of reactions I get from the public at large when I wear one color or rainbow for an entire year." Darlinda will record her experience via daily photographs and journal entries on her website www.yearinrainbow.com.
A YEAR IN RAINBOW kicked off on August 1st, 2007, when Darlinda started her spectrum with the color Red. The first live performance of the A YEAR IN RAINBOW series was on August 20, 2007 at Galapagos Art Space, where Darlinda produced a show called "The Red Self-Centered Leo Show" exploring the powerful, generous, egotistical (yet inspiring) ways of the color red and those born under the astrological sign of Leo.
September has been dedicated to the Rainbow; The rest of the year will play out as follows; October celebrates Orange, November: Rainbow, December: Yellow, January: Rainbow, February: Green, March: Rainbow, April: Blue, May: Rainbow, June: Purple and July: Rainbow. A YEAR IN RAINBOW is inspired by Linda M. Montano's "14 Years of Living Art", via Morty Diamond's "Year in Pink".
ABOUT DARLINDA JUST DARLINDA
Darlinda Just Darlinda has been working as a Burlesque Performer in New York since 2003. She coined the term "Polyester Performance", an inspiring mixture of Burlesque, Modern Dance, Performance Art, Psychedelic Happening, Comedy Sketch, and Drag Queen Ballet. She holds a degree in Teledramatic Arts and Technology from California State University, Monterey Bay. In this program Darlinda was given the tools to integrate many art forms, theater, Film, Video, New Media, and Radio. Focusing on live performance she's produced many Burlesque events in New York City and California. She debuted "I love Dr. Nina Simone" at Galapagos Art Space in August of 2005. This show integrated modern dance, burlesque and performance art in a loving tribute to Nina Simone. She has continued to produce shows at Galapagos, most recently "The Saga of Super Dance" in May of 2007, a burlesque narrative about the life of a super hero character who fights crime with Dance. The Village Voice calls Darlinda a "Mastermind of Bizarre Extravaganza." www.darlindajustdarlinda.com
For up to date information about The Year in Rainbow visit www.yearinrainbow.com

LPV events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc.,
Citizens for NYC, Green Thumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts;,
NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation & NYC Board of Education
Film & Exhibition support from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Additional support, in part, by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

PETIT MONDE October 7 - 30

OPENING RECEPTION OCTOBER 7 SUNDAY 2-7PM



LPV events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc.,
Citizens for NYC, Green Thumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts;,
NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation & NYC Board of Education
Film & Exhibition support from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Additional support, in part, by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.