HI TIGER !!

• Le Petit Versailles, 346 East Houston Street

• Curators Kris Nuzzi and Sur Rodney (Sur) in conjunction with NOT OVER: 25 Year of Visual AIDS invite you to join Hi Tiger Saturday June 1st @ 9pm at Le Petit Versailles 346 East Houston St. @ Avenue C NYC Their work is at once ethereal and hard-hitting, groovy and confrontational, and loaded with steamy politics and dramatics…it’s a brave, even fearless album… -Jakob Battick, Dispatch Magazine Hi Tiger was formed in August 2010 by visual artist, Derek Jackson. Like an accident you slow down to look at, they have been referred to as Art Punk, serious business of tragedy, and glamorous sex machines. Their post-punk debut album, "i love music", was recorded at Forest City Studio and released August 5th, 2011. In a set designed specifically for the exhibition NOT OVER, Hi Tiger is joined by Jacob Pitcher, of the band Contrapposto. The structured improvisation is titled "In Our Sick Society" and incorporates live mixing and beat mastering, vocals and triggered samples to create a sound that recalls 90's trip-hop... but way more spacey. Hi Tiger is Derek Jackson (vocals, keys) and Julian Heughan (mix master, beats). For more information about Hi Tiger please visit www.hitigermusic.com NOT OVER: 25 Years of Visual AIDS: https://www.facebook.com/events/168401599993535/

Faery Coffee Klatch ~*RED AND WILD*~

Sunday May 19
3pm - 7pm

Le Petit Versailles  
346 East Houston St. @ Avenue C.


YOO-HOOOOO!

WHAT DO STRAWBERRIE'S "SAY" TO ALL YOU KWEENS?
RED AND WILD OF COURSE!!
THAT'S OUR THEME.


Our beloved garden is back in its full enchantment and its summoning you all to join us for another sweet and magical Faery Coffee Klatch.

Bring out your red chiffon, put on that rouge and come frolic in some tulle.
If you haven't been to one of our Klatches before, IT IS MAJOR. So we encourage everyone to come out and connect with your fellow fae.
As always, we encourage garden donations and bringing snacks and refreshments for us to share and~ bond ~over.
Dusty and I look forward to showing you our wild side and perhaps taking you on a tour of our rosebud garden!After our klatch, please join us for the debut garden performance in a series by the ever so talented and lovable, Justin Sayre. 

Beltaine & Beyond!!

This Sunday April 14th from 4-7pm is the first seasonal faerie kaffee klatch at Le Petit Versailles hosted by Jomo and Dusty.

We anticipate hosting the Beltaine celebration on May 1 so  join our Facebook Le Petit Versailles group for  further details and updates on this event and our entire upcoming season.

We were proud to host The Blue Balcony by the group et al as this years Winter Project. The amazing construction and conceptual screenings were fantastic and delightful.

Here are Wendell,Nicholas and Zac beginning the de-installation.

The indoor theater moves outdoors!

More Upcoming events will soon be posted.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/LePetitVersailles/

Here's an invite for June 1 in conjunction with the exhibition 

Not Over:25 years of Visual AIDS

THE BLUE BALCONY

The Blue Balcony 

at Petit Versailles

Daily "screenings"  starting at 7:45pm. 
Please enter at 247 East 2nd St. 
For updated screening schedule visit
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Blue-Balcony/262305140570310

The Blue Balcony is a ciné-sculpture people can enter created by the artist group et al.  Referencing the atmospheric movie palaces of the 1920s’ the sculpture’s interior posses a vaulted ceiling constellated with specks of light and walls doubling as façade scenery.  The resultant effect is the impression of being in the open air.  As was often the case in the atmospheric cinemas, there is ambient cove lighting left on during the feature, also changing to correspond with the film’s tenor.  Finally, three tiers of seats provide ample space for an audience of 14 to sit and face a sheet of glass looking out onto the ripple of the leaves in the community garden.

Thematically the balcony is decorated with allusions to The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck, the no longer extant labyrinth of Versailles and accompanying Aesop’s Fable animal fountains, and the 1924 silent cubist film L’Inhumaine featuring the vampish Georgette Leblanc and sets designed by the modernist architect Robert Mallet-Stevens.

As the plots to many a film have been invigorated by their twist ending, The Blue Balcony is in no different a category.  We won’t be screening movies!  Instead the projected image on a movie screen will be permanently deferred during the duration of the film.  The audience will still be able to hear the now disembodied soundtrack, but instead of seeing an image a computer will process the levels of luminosity in each film frame and disperse the quantity of light for said frame onto the architecture of the space.  Thus replacing the projected image with peripheral lighting, leaving the audience’s eyes free to roam.

Events at Le Petit Versailles are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., 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 with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Thanks to Build It Green and Participant Inc who generously supported material to The Blue Balcony. 

Le Petit Versailles presents OctoberKore, a weekend of exhibition, music, film  and ritual celebrating the Eleusinian Mysteries -the myth of Persephone (Kore) and Demeter.

October 7th Sunday 2- 8pm.   2-8pm. - Obtusus cum Acumine ~ Prayer Flags for the Garden 5:30 - 7pm - "Whip'd Up Harvest Creamy Delights, Baked Music For Love" - featuring Whip Whipperten and Carlo Maria.

POSTPONED >>  Film Screening & Eleusinian Mysteries Ritual Initiation.

October 6 / 7  Saturday & Sunday  2-7pm.   Obtusus cum Acumine ~ Prayer Flags for the Garden by Lucia Maria Minervini.      Prayer Flags for the Garden is an observation of the delicate harmony of our symbiosis with our spaces.  The prayer flag, a colored panel of rectangular cloth including text and image, blesses its surroundings. These jewels of photosynthesis, preserved and shared in community, honor the bees for their gifts of flowers and wax.  Just as our cosmic union supersedes ego and commemorates our instinctive history, Obtusus cum Acumine whispers  that conscious mindfulness between all that are in the moment so omnipresent planetary winds will carry these messages beyond the beyond.

Le Petit Versailles, a NYC queer community garden established in 1996 by artivists Jack Waters and Peter Cramer, is internationally known as an art space of cultural significance that presents year round public events including exhibitions, music, film/video, performance, theater, workshops and community projects. LPV is a project of Allied Productions, Inc., a not for profit arts organization that has been a part of downtown history since 1981. LPV’s mission is to develop an appreciation of New York's green-spaces thru art and activism. Highlighted activities include the zine PLOT and LPVTV, a 13 part Manhattan Neighborhood Network public access cable series documenting Le Petit Versailles events and history, both of which are available at Printed Matter bookstore in Chelsea.   Our collaborators have included Visual AIDS, MIX NYC, FRISE (Hamburg) and are part of the Daffodil Project sponsored by New Yorkers for Parks.  We are featured in the books On Guerilla Gardening,  Temporary Urban Spaces  and most recently The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by East Village writer Sarah Schulman. Located at 346 East Houston St. the garden features an arbor, performance platform, site specific art installations  and a passageway to 2nd St.   Visiting hours are Thursday - Sunday  2-7pm. & whenever weather is favorable. LPV website is  http://www.alliedproductions.org  and blog http://www.lpvtv.blogspot.com/   Mailing address is PO Box 20260 NY NY 10009.  We can be contacted by email petitversailles@earthlink.net  and phone 212 529 8815. LPV events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., 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 with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Obtusus cum Acumine ~ Prayer Flags for the Garden

Obtusus cum Acumine ~ 
Prayer Flags for the Garden
Lucia Maria Minervini
Summer 2012

I offer Prayer Flags for the Garden in observation of the delicate harmony of our symbiosis with our spaces. These jewels of photosynthesis, preserved and shared in community, honor the bees for their gifts of flowers and wax. Just as our cosmic union supersedes ego and commemorates our instinctive history, Obtusus cum Acumine whispers that conscious mindfulness between all that is in the moment so the omnipresent planetary winds will carry these messages beyond the beyond.

The prayer flag, a colored panel of rectangular cloth including text and image, blesses its surroundings. Pre Buddhist Tibetan Shamanistic traditions used the flags in healing ceremonies.

Usually in 5 sets of 5 colors each, they are read from left to right symbolizing:
blue = sky/space, white = water, red = fire, green = air/wind, yellow = earth
Health and harmony prevails when all of the elements are in balance.

Promoting peace, compassion, strength and wisdom the flag's prayers are blown by the wind becoming a permanent part of the universe. New flags mounted 
alongside the old symbolize the ongoing cycle of life.

Film & Exhibition support from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.”

Surrender Dorothy: The Return of the Witches.

LE PETIT VERSAILLES presents 

Surrender Dorothy:  

The Return of the Witches

An Installation/Performance Project by 

Philippe Comtesse & Evor

June 9 – 21   2012

Opening June 9  Saturday  6-9pm.

Dress Code – Black & White.

Closing Event  June 21  4-9pm.   Make Music New York Concerts – 4pm - Garden Open.
8pm. Risha Gorig   http://www.reverbnation.com/rishagorig

Le Petit Versailles   346 East Houston St. @ Avenue C

www.alliedproductions.org       petitversailles@earthlink.net          212 529 8815

Subway: M – Second Ave.  J/M/F- Delancey/Essex.

For this Le Petit Versailles 2012 garden season exhibition  we are pleased to present two artists from France in a new episode of “Surrender Dorothy – The Return of the Witches” Evor and Philippe Comtesse have teamed up to create a set, costumes and accessories in order to allow the public to be part of a photoshoot and video shooting. You’ll be our models and actors and you’ll get the chance to be fully witchy and throw your inner hate towards Dorothy.

Black & White dress code.

DO NOT BRING WATER UNLESS YOU WANT TO MELT…

About the Artists

Evor born 36 years ago is captivated by the nature and scents that surround him. From his earliest childhood, he collects treasures of nature and suspends pupae hatches to see bunches of butterflies in his room meticulously transformed into a cabinet of curiosities. In 2000, congratulated for a course in Art & Design at ESBANM Nantes (FR), he developed a sculptural, iconic oeuvre full of of disturbing sensuality, always ambiguous, dual, seductive and mutant.

Therefore a whimsical universe is embodied, here in “absorbers of dark thoughts”, there through “objects-offerings” built to contaminate. In 2009, he received the Prize of Plastic Arts of Nantes, he invests a studio half-greenhouse half-laboratory, where he shapes sculptural growths that can be worn as accessories often “couture-like” and ceremonial objects dedicated to masquerades in wich each detail counts. Ceramics, feathers, chrome, leather, lace, glass, scrap, hijacked elements associated and sublimated camping posture claiming the art of living and intriguing.

Website: www.evor.fr

Philippe Comtesse is 35 yo, he is an artist and web designer.

Since art school ( Philippe passed his Master in arts in 2009 ), He has developed a work that combines queer issues, cinema and pop culture. Interested in horror movies and science fiction from his early childhood, he has built a work that is very referenced. Philippe blurs the lines between pop culture and high art in offering various experimental projects :  from the collaboration with a conspiracy theorist on a project that enlightens the illuminati messages in “The Wizard of Oz”, to the reinterpretations of one of his projects by movie makers. Philippe had a grant back in 2009 to go to Berlin and built an Exhibition. He again used this movie to make a multimedia exhibition using sculpture, installation, performances, videos and silk screen. For this first episode of “Surrender Dorothy”, he invited/collaborated with various artists from the Berlin and International scene : Guillaume Airiaud, artist, Paula Varjack, a slam poetess, Clare Bielby a queer theorist, Gio Black Peter, Cecine Robinet a poetess and writer, Tennessee Claflin ( A Berlin based NYC child ) as a go-go dancer…

Surrender Dorothy is  made possible by  L’institut Français,  la Ville de Nantes 

and L’Esban Nantes Métropole.

Film & Exhibition support from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.”

 LPV events are also made possible by Allied Productions, Inc.,

Green Thumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts; NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation &NYC Board of Education.