petitversailles

Le Petit Versailles is a NYC public community garden in the East Village that presents a season of events including art exhibitions, music, film/video, performance, theater, workshops and community projects from May - October. LPV is a project of Allied Productions, Inc., a non profit arts organization. http://www.alliedproductions.org

Friday, July 25, 2008

AUGUST 1 & 2 - BRAINFREEZE & LIVE DINING


AUGUST 1 Friday @ 8pm BRAINFREEZE
a video performance installation by PHYLLIS BULKIN LEHRER

Le Petit Versailles
346 East Houston Street. between avenue b + c.
F/V train to Second Ave. J/M - Delancey Street

cool off & have fun!
Brainfreeze is an evening length experimental projection installation by Phyllis Bulkin Lehrer at La Petite Versailles that seeks to explore a sense of place, using live and pre-recorded moving imagery to create an immersive video environment . Presented in the hot summer garden, this sensual projected world will contain moving media and sound with a wintery sensibility that will ( part of the experiment) simulate cool feeling. There will be a camera (operated by Ashley Lehrer) producing a live feed so that audience participants and elements of the garden itself can be textured on to the 3d animated images that inhabit the projection .These snow inspired objects will be will be mobile in real time within the projection .
A Dancer/performer ( Jorhari Mayfield) will navigate the space wearing a costume with portable lcd screens . The performer will interact with the audience during the installation. The contrast of imagery will be on various levels ; larger than life projection in the space, projection of real time textures onto the 3d projection elements and the miniaturized confrontation of the imagery on the small dvd players worn by the performer.




LIVE DINING by Nicole Fournier
A performance installation of cooking & dining and a lively discussion on sustainable communities, guerilla gardening and more. Copies of the recently published book
On Guerilla Gardening will be available courtesy of Bloomsbury.

August 2 Saturday 6 –11pm FREE


Since 1988, my art practice is informed by environmental concerns, ecology and the interrelationships between personal, social, community and environmental connections. This has taking form in painting, sound-light-body installation-performance, collage, creating assemblage sculpture with food (fresh & decomposing), hair and other materials, and has been expressed through conceptual and ephemeral art forms, intervention, installation & performance, using plants, earth, roots and used objects, and using digital imagery, video and projections. Since 1999 I began doing independent research into alternative food growing systems.
Since 2002, my main focus is performance, addressing systems of food production and land usages, in relation to the body and gender. This was expressed through the Performances in 2002, “Nipple Hair and Weedeater”, about cutting growth, control, wildness and connections, and well-known “Corn Field Performances”, which consisted of various manoeuvres in a Genetically Modified monoculture cornfield, in rural Quebec. Having a need to go more in depth into interdisciplinary issues related to the environment, I embarked on an interdisciplinary post-graduate Diploma in Environmental Studies (Arts & Science) at McGill University, which I completed in 2005.

While I continue to perform indoors in galleries, other venues and outdoors in public contexts, since 2004 my performances have included works that embrace a relational, participatory aesthetic that invites public collaboration, such as “Live Dining”, a performance, intervention, ephemeral installation, which is an adaptable concept, site specific work, which involves bringing meaning to performing the intimate actions of, sharing, planting, harvesting, foraging, preparing, cooking & dining, all done where a diversity of edible and non-edible plants grow, in an integrated “dining room-kitchen” installation. Food is free, and all are invited. Since 2005, “Live Dining’s" activist quality, is also about subverting the idea of garden, replacing it with or bringing meaning to wild plants and polyculture agriculture in suburban and urban areas. It does, as Tagny Duff has noted, “reference earlier land art movements and, in this case, earlier Fluxus works that often employed the ritual of eating and food. All these works explicitly use collaborative working networks in order to create the work.” http://visualeyez2007.blogspot.com/2007/05/live-dining-nicole-fournier.html
In 2007 “Live Dining” was performed 5 times internationally and nationally. In 2007, the new performance “The Blinding Light of Death and Cooking the Earth” was performed in Italy and Boston, USA; this performance was inspired and relates to “Nipple Hair and Weedeater” and “Corn Field Performances”, with the beginning rant of “I need to Control” and the continuation of using elements such as the drill, weedeater and cutting hair, including nipple hair.

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

Saturday, July 19, 2008

NEW New Visions Cinema & AUGUST PREVIEW!



THE NEW VISION CINEMA SERIES
@ LE PETIT VERSAILLES
Thursday, July 24, 2008
8:30 PM
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.

1. NAILS by William Palminteri. 
2. SILO by Joel Schlemowitz. 
3. ELECTRICAL FIELDS by David Finkelstein. 
4. BARATHATYAM: LIFE, BREATH, DANCE by Amy Leonard. 
5. YOSHIKO by Nisi Jacobs. 
6. YELLOW MOSHENE: EDGE by Natalia Babinski & Janene Knox. 
7. AMAREN GAUZATXOA (MUM'S LITTLE THINGS) by Itziar Barrio. 
8. FACES IN THE FLOWERS by Jennifer MacMillan. 
9. QUADRUPED MIRRORS by Tim Reardon. 
10. THE POET by Noe Kidder. 
11. TREASURE by Lili White. 
12. I REALLY THINK IT'S A BLACK/WHITE INCIDENT by Joey Huertas.
13. CONSCIENCE by Steven Salerno. 
14. MONTAGE AUS LICHT by Joshua Ahlers. 
15. MANUELLE LABOR by Marie Losier & Guy Maddin.
16. THE VOLUPTUOUS HORROR OF HOLISTIC BIRTHING by Ned Ambler. 
17. A NICK ZEDD FILM YOU WILL NOT SEE ANYWHERE ELSE! by Nick Zedd. 
18. RESIST! by Mike Park. 

UPCOMING AUGUST EVENTS

August 1- BRAINFREEZE -  Phyllis Bulkin Lehrer
Video installation & performance
August 2- LIVE DINING - Nicole Fournier
Polycultural Food  Harvest installation & video
August 5-12 - I.T.S.O.A.B. - John Blanco 
In The Shadow Of The Butterfly
Ongoing  artists' studio special events over 6 days.
Check http://www.lpvtv.blogspot.com for complete schedule.

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

Monday, July 14, 2008

FREE FORM FILM Festival & Music! FREE!!



Sat. July 19th 8pm

Free Form Film Festival @ Le Petit Versailles
346 East Houston st. (ave. B & C)
212 529 8815
http://www.lpvtv.blogspot.com
freeformfilm.org

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.

** The night will open up with a 45-minute acoustic set by Storyship

Press Links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtHqQqegmXw
http://www.inthisweek.com/article.asp?id=1537
http://www.artistsofutah.org/15bytes/07mar/page6.html
http://www.thecoast.ca/1editorialbody.lasso?-token.folder=2005-09-08&-token.story=97848.112113&-token.subpub=
http://www.myspace.com/storyship

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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.

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.

for more information contact:
Ryan Wylie
573-489-2509 cell
ryan@freeformfilm.org
freeformfilm.org

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

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