2010 Annual Report

ALLIED PRODUCTIONS, Inc.

2010 HIGHLIGHTS

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• We upgraded our web site with video clips and blogging capabilities!

• As the fiscal sponsor for the production of a new film work by Ken Jacobs, Allied with Gartenberg Media Enterprises are co-initiators of the Experimental Film Makers Production Fund.

Now On View:

LPV director Peter Cramer’s installation “Hommage au Petit Versailles”
November 30 – January 30 2011
Theater for the New City’s exhibition “Preservation:Preserve or Forget”.

Allied Productions’ Swing Space Residency
January 27 – August 26, 2010

Allied was granted a temporary office space from The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council culminating with the June 24th, 2010 open rehearsal/musical workshop; a  staged reading with mixed media of selections from the working narrative of Allied director Jack Waters‘ concept, “Pestilence“ – a 3 part trans-media musical opus.

Peter Cramer Installation, “Ars(e) Moriendi” at MIX NYC
November 9 – 14, 2010

Jack Waters’ film “The Male Gayze“at  The Film Makers’ COOP screening “Counter Culture, Counter Cinema” at LA MOCA/Pacific Design Center
October 16, 2010

Peter Cramer & Jack Waters at EXIT ART on the October 15th panel “The Future  of the Alternative Space and in the exhibition “Alternative Histories” with an oral history of their work at Allied, Abc No Rio, and their appearance in the Abc No Rio documentary “156 Rivington Street”

Peter Cramer & Jack Waters at MOMA
September 20, 2010
On the panel at Barbara Hammer’s retrospective with their appearance in her film,  “Nitrate Kisses”.

Howl Festival Info Table

An information center  for Allied Productions, Inc., Le Petit Versailles Garden, Naked Eye Cinema, garden advocacy, and the distribution of “Cubby Missalett” zine at the perennial Tompkins Square Park festival.
September 10 -11

LPV alumni in ET/IQ’s “Escape To Uranus” fashion spectacle at BAAD (Bronx Academy of Art & Dance)
August 18, 2010

Le Petit Versailles’ 2010

Season Highlights

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Events schedule starting with the Season Opening on Mayday with a BYODJ Party by LPV resident gardener and artist Orange

“Y’ART Sales“ – A season long flea market of original art, prints & reproductions,  collectibles, clothing,  & curios.

READINGS
“Bedtime Stories” – organized by Shelley Marlow
featuring Mary Gaitskill, Shelley Marlow, Robert Marshall, and Peter Trachtenberg!
September 10, 2010

WORKSHOPS
“Baroque Bike Rack” by Bernard Klevickas.
The baroque bike rack is fabricated from abandoned bicycle frames and parts.
September 10, 2010 on-going

“Naval Splace Possibility: Wine into Water“ – An art-making workshop
A small boat making activity out of corks organized by Dillon de Give
June 13, 2010

THEATER
“The Fall Of The House Of  Usher”
October 31, 2010
A theatrical adaption of Poe’s classic short story featuring Bill Corry, directed by John Zurek, and adapted by Todd Terwilliger.

PERFORMANCE
“CHAKRA CABERET”
June 19th 2010
A Celebration of Spirituality, Queerness, and Revolutionary Consciousness
“Hosted by musical metaphysicist Dingles and the eminent Tranimals Alaska Thunderfuck and Bizzy, with guest performers PeeWee Nyob, Davi Cohen, Liam Barnes, and Carlo Maria Ampil, Chakra Cabaret pays homage and contributes to the radical queer arts community, continuing expressions of honesty and vulnerability that are often laid under labels of “Art,” “sexual freedom,” and other ideological, aesthetic, and social stances that mask and add layers of disconnection and posturing between our clans and tribes.”

MUSIC
“Carol Lipnik and Spookerama – Coney Island Parlor Punk“
June 21, 2010
Avant-siren chanteuse Carol Lipnik with her wildly eclectic accompanist, the acclaimed keyboardist Dred Scott.

Pistol Pete (AKA Pete Sturman) – May 1st, 2010

EXHIBITION

“Versailles In The Sky” an Installation by Sabine Mohr – May 1st 2010

“Birdhouses and Birdbaths: Ceramics By Elisabeth Kley”

October 1 – 31, 2010

The Petit Versailles featured an article with Shirin Neshat, Marina Abramovic, and Laurie Anderson in The Huffington Post among best women artists of 2010

SCREENINGS
Mareike Bernien and Kerstin Schroedinger – Modes of Re-Framing and Rehearsal
A travelling series of screenings with an awareness for genderspecific
and post-colonial power relations.
June 26, 2010

MEDIA INSTALLATION/VIDEO

The 101010 Upstage Festival: A Screening of Live Performances from Around the World
organized by Helen Varley Jamieson
remote cyber performers from around the globe combine images, animations, audio, web cams, text and drawing in real-time for an online audience
October 10th 2010

“LUMINOUS POINT” an interactive media work by Alexander Hahn – May 15th, 2010

“House Of The Gentile” an installation by Lili White – May 1st , 2010

“A Different Take” MIX NYC Queer media workshop pre-screening September 8th, 2010

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COMING UP:

Allied Productions, Inc. 30th Anniversary!

As Allied develops a broader cooperative management structure for this entirely artist-run organization.

ARCHIVAL PROJECTS
Looking over our 30 year history we continue to develop an archive that is unique to our ideals of collectively artist-run, trans-disciplinary cultural practice.

The Allied Archival Project develops from our implementation of the Abc No Rio archives and ephemera. The Allied Archival Incentive demonstrates our historical relationship to the related material of the No Rio visual art archives entrusted to Allied’s custody since the mid ’80s when No Rio was a sponsored project of this organization. Other related material includes that of the A’s Events Fliers Collection, The Mix Collection, materials relating to Collaborative Projects, Inc (Colab), Franklin Furnace Archives, and other contemporary groupings and activities of the late 20th century. The project is abridged to Allied’s archival initiative of the Naked Eye Cinema – the extension of the film program at Abc No Rio.

Among the myriad group projects flourishing  under Allied’s umbrella is the band Circle X and its artist-member’s edition “Anti-Utopia”, the related prints from the Florida Press, and numerous Allied sponsored Abc No Rio exhibitions including tours to Detroit, Maine, San Francisco, Canada, and Hamburg;  the itinerant Naked Eye Cinema screenings and performances on these travels; the ground-breaking projects  “Miami, The Last Resort” (1989), “The Ultimately Civil Project at Tompkins Square Park” (1985), performances of  “FOHO Tell Dreams” in Ibiza and at the Danspace Project at Saint Marks Church (1984 -1985); “The Arc(h) Project” – a critical homage to Richard Serra’s “Tilted Arc”, and performances by the collective P.O.O.L. at the Pyramid Club and Art On The Beach, and Allied’s inauguration of the cabaret space at La Mamma in NYC. Inclusive of the project will be Allied’s history with ongoing educational components that involve work in schools from kindergarten to partners in education for the elderly.

The launch of the Allied Archival Project will focus on the works of artist Gordon Stokes Kurtti. Gordon died of AIDS related causes in 1985 at the age of 25. Kurtti’s prolific output – his crossing of visual art with literature, performance, and cinema – provides key relevance and a visceral centrality to the  aesthetic principles held by this organization, and its reverberated influences. The dynamic by which Kurtti lived and worked was an inspiration and a guide to all who knew him and worked with him. That his career was brief yet profoundly influential is a testament to the importance of the impact of the AIDS crisis on this and future generations. That so much has been done with so little, in the face of such diversity is a rallying cry and a galvanization of those surviving, those still  young, and generations to come.

A parallel focus to the Allied archival incentive is phase 2 of the Naked Eye Cinema archival project started this year under the direction of curator and archivist Jon Gartenberg president of Gartenberg Media Enterprises. Phase 1 of the Naked Eye Cinema archival project was  funded in part by Technical Assistance Program (TAP).

OTHER UPCOMING PROJECTS

Joel Perez & Devon Gallegos Talk Show – an internet, DVD, and public Access TV program.

Brian Kates project
“Cubby Missalet” zine project
“Pestilence”, an opus in 3 parts conceived by Jack Waters.

PARTNERSHIPS

Developing  longstanding associations with organizations like MIX NYC, Film Makers’ Cooperative, and ABC NO RIO.

Developing TOURS & PROGRAMS in cooperation with our colleagues at The Uptown Entertainment & Development Corporation in North Philadelphia,  Parasol Projects in Tucson, and  Frise in Hamburg Germany.

AND

Establishing new inter borough collaborations with neighboring projects and communities in the New York City area.

WEB DEVELOPMENT
For more user friendly higher dynamic interactivity

SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT
For office, production, exhibition, showcase & affordable residence for artists and social services

Le Petit Versailles

15th Anniversary Year!

2011 Season Launch: “G’ART (Guerrilla Art) Walk“ – a month long promenade thru the Lower East side with participating gardens and other spaces with scheduled events

Fundraising Campaign
We are planning our Spring Benefits; Parties, Dinners, Shows, Earned income from Events, Art & Item  Sales, Auctions,

Media Distribution and Direct appeals. Send us money!

Thanks to our  supporters!

SPRITES
Shen Family Foundation
Anonymous gift in honor of David Deitch
Gift recommended by the Kyle J. Goldman Charitable Gift Fund
Robert Dell Vuyosevich
Ingo Giezendanner

and

PIXIES
Dale Aucoin
Jean Bleich
Charles Cooke
James S Hubbard
Dirk Hauska
Cyra Greene
Lucia Maria Minervini

PUBLIC FUNDERS
New York State Council on the Arts
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Materials For The Arts/DCA
Operation Greenthumb

FOUNDATION SUPPORT
TAP (Technical Assistance Program) for the Naked Eye Cinema archival project
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space Grant
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

BOARD OF DIRECTORS/FOUNDERS
Susan Brown
Carl George
Linda Richardson
Jack Waters
Peter Cramer (Emeritus)

Jack Waters

STAFF
Peter Cramer – LPV Special Projects
Jack Waters – administration & curatorial support
Ian Kowaleski – web, internet, systems & promotional assistance
Samoa – website development

VOLUNTEERS
Marc Harada & Jill London – senior gardeners
Leslie Lowe
Carlo Maria Ampil
Devon Gallegos
Brian Bizzy Barefoot
Jeremy Gender

..and to our audiences, friends and supporting community!

See video clips and blog your comments on our website at:
https://archive.alliedproductions.org/category/lpv-blog/
https://archive.alliedproductions.org/category/projects-and-performances/

See upcoming events at the LPV events calendar:
https://archive.alliedproductions.org/le-petit-versailles/garden-events-calender/

Stay in touch with Le Petit Versailles all year long on our Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=74582862709

For the full archive of LPV Events see the LPV blogspot at http://www.lpvtv.blogspot.com/