HAIR-O-WIN & ELECTRIC JUNKYARD GAMELAN

FREE Events @ Le Petit Versailles

346 East Houston st. (ave. B & C)
F / V trains to Second Ave. Walk east on Houston St. or
J / M trains to Delancey. Walk northeast to Houston St.
212 529 8815 http://www.lpvtv.blogspot.com free / donation


JULY 11 FRIDAY 10 pm.
HAIR-O-WIN
Hair-O-Win is an hour-long live art installation. A collaboration between performer Crystal Goldmind and writer Zip Shark), the work employs theatrics, temporary piercing, video, and sound collage to explore the cosmic significance and physical reality of a dying super-heroine.
HAIR-O-WIN, A SUPERHEOINE reclines comatose in the secret work-chamber of a MYSTERIOUS CHARACTER.
Her psychic limbo is broadcast. Her flesh is interfered with. Maps are made.
Not for the Squeamish PLEASE BE AWARE this installation contains needles, blood, and partial nudity.

Crystal Goldmind IS a Brooklyn-based performance artist. I have passionately studied, created, performed, collaborated, and produced experimental theater for over a decade. My current artistic interests include performance in alternative spaces, performance as activism, and pushing the boundaries of interdisciplinary performance. My work’s broad scope and complex underpinnings range from the lust of the ephemeral quality of pure movement, to the direct political messages of performance art—from the instantaneous composition of improvised movement pieces, to the pure joy of queer flamboyance. My performance art addresses queer politics, patriotic dissent, and alternative sexuality in two primary forms: crotch puppets and temporary piercing theater.
Temporary piercing theater builds upon the emotional resonance of live impermanent piercing of the flesh, creating a cathartic and thrilling kinesthetic environment. My body becomes a canvas onto which different designs are attached. The puncturing of skin serves as a backdrop for an intersecting verbal narrative. Mermaid scales have been woven onto my chest while unrequited love letters from a sailor were recited (The Sailor and the Mermaid, 2005). A tail of flowers has been pinned to my back as scientific accounts of homosexual behavior in the animal kingdom were read (The Tale of the Tail, 2005).

Zip Shark, am a writer currently living in Missoula, Montana. I’ve spent years in New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, and Nevada sifting through the old ruins and continuing pathology of Manifest Destiny. A water-politics anthology I co-edited, Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground, examines the interplay of Manifest Destiny and water. Since its spring 2007 publication on Soft Skull Press I have toured with the book and with my play The Gold Fish, or, Straight Flushes for the Manifestly Destined, a one-act comedy on salmon migration. In 2005, this work also took me to New Orleans in the early aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. There I sampled soil and water, interviewed residents on their environmental and medical concerns, helped produce the flyer Mud, Mold, and More: How to Stay Safe after Katrina, and researched Gulf Coast toxic history. Colorlines published the resulting article “Rebuilding on Poisoned Ground” in their Spring 2006 issue.

JULY 12 Saturday 8pm
ELECTRIC JUNKYARD GAMELAN
http://www.sonicbids.com/electricjunkyardgamelan
a five piece ensemble performing original rhythm driven instrumental music on invented instruments. It features haunting melodies, funky bass lines and layers of interlocking rhythmic lines, coupled with stunning visuals from our self - invented musical contraptions. It is a unique musical experience. Electric Junkyard Gamelan has been performing together since 1998 in New York City and nationally. The concept for the group was initially inspired by traditional gamelan music of Indonesia. We now weave in range of influences from Indian Classical to funk and hip hop. Our mission is to present a fresh original sound and a captivating aural and visual experience for the audience. Many of the instruments I create are fashioned from recycled and found objects, thus our motto...ReUse, ReCycle and Rock!
Electric Junkyard Gamelan is the brainchild of bandleader and composer Terry Dame. Born out of desire to create an original sound Dame fused her two passions, making music and inventing and building things to form this totally unique group.
EJYG has been performing together since 1998. They released their self-titled debut in 2002. Their new live album "Live from HERE" was released in January 2007. This highly adaptable group performs at every type of venue possible from prestigious art centers, large and small to New Yorks finest clubs, underground music parties and outdoor festivals. Past venues include The Walker Art Center, The Kitchen, Amazing Things Art Center, RealArtWays, Pioneer Arts Center of Easthampton, Sage Street Mill at Vermont Arts Exchange, TSL and the Vintage Virginia Wine Festival. New York City venues include Zebulon, Barbes, The Stone, The Knitting Factory, Galapagos, CBGBs, Dixon Place and PS122 to name a few.

Robin Burdulis: Filter & Tube Drums, Gongs, Pot Rack
Terry Dame: Rubarp,Terraphone, Kacapitar
Mary Feaster: Sitello, Kacapitar, Big Barp
Lee Frisari: Clayrimba, Pot Rack, Gongs
Julian (Julz A) Hintz: Clayrimba, Big Barp, Gongs

Press Quotes

"Electric Junkyard Gamelan makes music so original
they had to invent their own instruments to play it.
It's wild enough to please fans...regardless of genre."
--Global Rhythms Magazine

"transporting...beautiful and inspired sounds"
- --Village Voice

"...rhythmic, near-hypnotic music."
--HX Magazine



Le Petit Versailles, created in 1996 by community neighbors is a NYC GreenThumb garden and project of Allied Productions, Inc. a non profit arts organization. LPV provides a green oasis for meditation and relaxation dedicated to fostering the interest of all segments of the community in the arts, broadening and enriching the general public through performances, screenings, workSHOPS.

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.

Spring TO Summer JUNE 21

JUNE 21 Saturday @ 8pm
Le Petit Versailles in conjunction with MAKE MUSIC NYC -http://www.makemusicny.org/
presents
DUO GEO -
World Music for Guitar & Percussion
DUO GEO
Nemaja Rebic (guitar)& Bill Buchen (percussion)

Music to entrance the heart and soul on our inner worlds.
http://www.sonicarchitecture.com

@ 9:30 pm - Shih Chieh Huang - DeEvolution - ARTIST TALK
Remember that snaking floating tube in the garden circa 2002? That was Shih Chieh Huang's and he returns to update us on his latest projects with an artist talk, presentation and discussion of work process, and inspirations. Including video documentations of artist work process/ construction and research reference on bioluminescent and iridescent marine organisms. A research project artist conducted in 2007 at the Smithsonian Institute National Museum of Natural History with marine biologists.
After presentation there will be Q & A with the audience.

Le Petit Versailles Art Garden
346 East Houston St.
http://www.lpvtv.blogspot.com
212 529 8815

Shih Chieh Huang is a 2007 Artist Fellowship recipient
ofthe New YorkFoundation for the Arts(NYFA). This presentation is
co-sponsored by Artists& AudiencesExchange, a NYFA public program.”

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

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, ACCORDIONS ANGELS & FREEFORMFILMS, OH MY!!!

FREE Events @ Le Petit Versailles
346 East Houston st. (ave. B & C)
F / V trains to Second Ave. Walk east on Houston St. or
J / M trains to Delancey. Walk northeast to Houston St.
212 529 8815 http://www.lpvtv.blogspot.com free / donation

SATURDAY JUNE 14, 2008

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
NORM MAGNUSSON
SCOTT MCCARNEY
JENNIFER PAUL

5 -7 pm Reception for exhibition

These three artists will place their work among the flower beds of Petit Versailles. Each of them uniquely investigates the ephemeral and fantastic as well as the darker side of existence. Norm places plant markers observing such events as Columbine and Dachau. Scott places rubber gloves filled with earth, seeds and surprise objects revealed thru the slow decomposition of the gloves and Jennifer spins fairy tales of gorgeous kaleidoscopic color.

7 - 8:30 pm MUSIC - ACCORDIAN ANGELS
A quartet of accordians plays contemporary composition s and a few more recognizable tunes! Bob Goldberg is composer and directs this ensemble.

9PM - Free Form Film Festival
Join us for another gut ripping found footage experience! Free Form reaches deep into the belly of the Lost Media Archive to bring NYC 2 new hilarious programs.
"I'm more fascinated by things I find in the garbage from our past than things that are coming out today."
-Blair Sterret, founder Lost Media Archive

Program #1
Please Self-Help Me
Vintage instructional, exercise, and self help videos.

Program #2
Praise the Tube
Vintage and outsider religious programming from the backyards and cable access stations of America.
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The Free Form Film Festival (FFFF) is a traveling festival of film and music created by loaf-i productions and inner mission productions. Events include, shorts and features across all genres, live music and multimedia performance, and installation. We are a continuously touring festival without beginnings or endings. In other words, we do it here and there, whenever and wherever possible. In our 5th year of touring North America, this will be Free Form’s 2nd screening/performance at Le Petit Versailles.


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

Killer Weekend! June 6,7,8

JOIN US FRIDAY,SATURDAY & SUNDAY FOR MEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA!


Le Petit Versailles presents

June 7 & 8 Saturday & Sunday

2- 7pm HEARING - A sound installation by ANDREA MONTI

Film Screenings begin @ 9pm

HEARING
Hearing is a very simple ‘musical’ installation.

The micro simply captures the environment sounds and through the mixer send all directly out to the headphones (that is to people’s ears), so that the listener can hear quite exactly the sounds he would have heard normally, without the earphones. Obviously there will be a delay due to the passage of the audio message through the technical equipment.
In short, people will listen to the environment through the equipment (that is an electric conversion) instead of by their own ears.
No spectacle, no entertainment, no special effects, there’s nothing to sell. It’s something silent, useless, even stupid.

The installation’s simplicity is somehow justified by its preponderance of the concept in relation to the aesthetical shape. In fact it aims to deal with the concepts of reproduction, fake, current metamorphosis of natural into artificial and the consequent substitution.
Is even the green grass going to be substituted? Is there a difference between the sounds you really hear and those you hear in earphones? So what’s the difference between real and virtual, original and copy? The answer is not given.

Hearing is a new project, never realised before, something like a site-specific work. It needs just electricity, people and noises.

About me: My name is andrea monti, I’m 25, italian and I live in Tuscany. In the past I realised and exposed few artworks at contemporary art italian festivals. In that period I collaborated for 1 year with Oliviero Toscani, researching on communication.
At present I write music for films and make experimental videos. I mainly organise film festivals and write reviews on critical cinema journals. Recently I realised a complete retrospective on Guy Debord’s cinematic works in Lucca and Perugia, and a large exposition of Michael Snow’s art and multimedia works. Now working on experimental and expanded european cinema.

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June 6 Friday 8pm.





Mobility & Unleashed Power -
A 2 part live video performance 

by killer banshee - 
Kriss De Jong & Eliot K Daughtry

Mobility - Confabulation on the Experiential Nature of Modern Medicine is about the nature of our interlocking set of experiences with medicine and what it means to live with ongoing chronic, episodic medical issues. Within the structure of this piece we address our different perspectives on the same experience through visual and performative elements that represent our conversation.
This work is developed as improvisational performative video over two channels. Starting with a common pool of material, we develop and interpret our personal views of shared experience. Our perspective disengages from the understood perspective of the TV medical drama and instead explores the personal archive, abstracting our own narrative to convey the sense of the loss of control over time. The Interminable middle: diagnostic hours and days, volumes of paperwork and records, ever present televisions and clocks in waiting rooms, doctors offices and hospital rooms.

Unleashed Power uses found & personal footage and imagery with text pulled from deposition transcripts to examine the history of ACT-UP demonstrations and police violence through the lens of a single incident...the personal violence experienced during the Chicago ACT-UP AMA Demo in June of 1991.

BIOS: killer banshee (Eliot K Daughtry & Kriss De Jong) creates challenging audiovisual art, with a focus on live, projected video works. Intersecting cultural politics, technology and art, they combine material from personal and public archives, forging meanings from the examination of gesture, time, and place. killer banshee frequently collaborates with other artists. 

Eliot K Daughtry has worked with video since 1988, when he made works for installation at ARC Gallery and Lower Links in Chicago. He worked professionally at the Center for New Television in Chicago for 4 years, documenting other artists with video and working with video as an art form. All the while, he worked on performances as well, composing scores, and performing regularly. He is finishing an MFA at California College of the Arts this spring.

Kriss De Jong challenges anyone to get in the way of her and her computer. She mastered computer video for Internet and DV production before most video artists knew what random access meant. With deep knowledge of technique, Kriss brings an organic mastery of sound and image to live video. As editor for Killer Banshee Studios, Kriss works magic on videos large & small, and has fine tuned work for short and feature length films from Steakhaus Productions, Sini Anderson and Fly.
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Le Petit Versailles, created in 1996 by community neighbors is a GreenThumb garden and a project of Allied Productions, Inc. a non profit arts organization. LPV provides a green oasis for meditation and relaxation dedicated to fostering the interest of all segments of the community in the arts, broadening and enriching the general public through performances, screenings, workshops..

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.
Support for Hearing is made possible by the Instituto Italiano di Cultura.