We are UNIQUE as a100% artist-run multi-purpose umbrella arts service organization!

Great advances were made as  2013 marked the 32nd anniversary of the founding of Allied Productions, Inc.  We’ve come a long way since our beginning. Like most arts organizations, AIDS took a great toll on us. Having lost many loved and valued friends and collaborators we are just beginning to re-root and establish. Our ability to survive in tough economic climates have been proved again and again by our creative resourcefulness. We continue to prepare a coming generation for leadership in our unique challenge of melding social progress to creative endeavor. Our developing archives provide living records of the self-actualized artist management that makes Allied unique, as do the active examples set in the intergenerational multicultural multi-gendered community that we lovingly embrace. But we need your help to continue.

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THIS YEAR

Allied pioneer artist Gordon Stokes Kurtti

Our archival strategy began in 2002 from our history as the fiscal sponsor for Abc No Rio in Allied’s fomentation of the Abc No Rio archives  and  No Rio’s visual art collection. Bridging our past and current relationships with kindred artist groups and organizations like No Rio continue into the next phase of Allied’s archival project where identifying related collections such as the Fales Downtown Collection, Anthology Film Archives, and Franklin Furnace – repositories of material that Allied has fostered –  with our own archives will be a focal point.

We are grateful for the devotion and generous funding support of Mary Jo and Ted Shen that made it all possible.

Allied’s principal program venue had another AMAZING season with artist

Devon Gallegos in a curatorial and management role programming this unique urban community garden venue.

Here’s a recap of all the LPV events:

Beltaine Mayday Celebration at Le Petit Versailles
Photo by Peter Cramer

JUNE

Hi Tiger performance for opening night of 
NOT OVER:25 Years of Visual AIDS.

Make Music NY with Garrin Benfield. 

Justin Sayre’s Red Couch Reading Series,
dedicated to recently deceased poet and actor Taylor Mead, introduced new writers on the scene including Stephen Boyer, Charlie Corbett, Jarrett, Earnest, Nicholas Gorham, Gilles Herrada,  Ben Rosenberg, Clayton Dean Smith and Quito Ziegler.

JULY

SEPTEMBER

Gordon Kurtti Project
curated by Carl George
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/12/arts/design/gordon-kurtti-project.html

including
One Night Stands performance series at Particpant, Inc.
Kembra Pfahler
Edgar Oliver
Penny Arcade
John Kelly
Marga Gomez
Jack Waters & Peter Cramer with Justin Sayre,
Linda Simpson
Karen Finley
John “Lypsinka” Epperson
Kimberly Flynn
Carmelita Tropicana
Samoa
And WORKS FROM THE NAKED EYE CINEMA COLLECTION at
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES –First screening of Carl preservation print of The Lost 40 Days funded by the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF).

Naked Eye Cinema Film Preservation
Having completed the preservation of Carl George’s fim “The Lost 40 Days”,we are now preserving Peter Cramer’s “Corrective Measures:Politically Speaking” The project was facilitated by  Erica Titkemeyer with Julia Kim and funded by the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF).
Bill Brand of BB Optics will again be the preservationist.

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Choreographer Brian Taylor in still from 6 Feet: Dancers That I Know And Love
a film by Carl Michael George

A cinematic reimagining on the making of the landmark documentary “Portrait of Jason”  starring Sarah Schulman as Shirley Clark, Jack Waters as Jason Holliday, and Peter Cramer as The Hallucination. Directed by Stephen Winter. Dramaturgy and design by Brian Bizzy Barefoot.
FIlming begins January 2014.

Forest of the Future 
Stephen Boyer
Kembra Pfahler
Pop UP Museum Brooklyn
et aL
Dancing FoxesPress
Mix NYC
..and many others

The Pestilence Projection Wall for HPSCHD at Eyebeam
photo by Peter Cramer

Pestilence Creative Team Members Projecting for HPSCHD
(l-r André Azevedo, John Swartz, Devon Gallegos, Carlo Maria Ampil, Jack Waters)
Photo: Peter Cramer.

In October musical elements were introduced mixing digital and analogue sound and images created in an interactive exhibition with a formal staged reading at the Emily Harvey Gallery in Soho for the first New York preview of this ongoing work in process. At the Emily Harvey Foundation’s New York base the Pestilence team was joined by media artist Daniel Belquer whose participation in Pestilence was initiated by HarvestWorks.  This mutual support of the Pestilence Project inaugurated a partnership between Emily Harvey Foundation and HarvestWorks with Allied as a connecting hub.
 

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PARTICIPATION AT VISUAL AIDS’ 25th ANNIVERSARY 

In June Cramer & Waters were part of two exhibtions for the 25th anniversary of Visual AIDS.
They presented essays for archived items at
Not only this, but ‘New language beckons us.’
 at Fales Library and Special Collections, NYU. The exhibition was curated by Andrew Blackley.

Concurrently, Waters and Cramer created a screening room installation based on a reconfiguration of their 2000 project
Short Memory: No History for NOT OVER: 25 Years of Visual AIDS
curated by Kris Nuzzi and Sur Rodney (Sur) @ La Mama Galleria.

In Discussion at  “The Jack And Peter Show”
( l-r Jack Waters Jim Hubbard, Sarah Schulmn, Justin Sayre, and Peter Cramer)
photo by Ves Pitts

Concurrent with the Visual AIDS anniversary activities were performances curated by Cramer and Waters for the Gordon Kurtti Project’s  One Night Stands series at Participant, Inc. Performers in The Jack And Peter Show included Justin Sayre, Carlo Maria Ampil, Connor Donahue, Ari Rosenbaum, and Whip Whippintin. The variety talk show format included interview and discussion with Writer/Activist Sarah Schulman and film maker Jim Hubbard.

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Peter and Jack served as members of the wedding party in Ira Sach’s new movie Love is Strange 

and were invited observors for Julie Tolentino’s project “The Sky Remains the Same” at the New Museum 

and Jack Waters appeared in “What is Cinema” the new documentary by Charles Workman @ DOC film festival/IFC.
 

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In November Peter Cramer presented ARSEnic and O’Lace at MIX 26.
MIX NYC New York Queer Experimental Film Festival.
http://www.mixnyc.org/26/installations/

 

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Cramer & Waters spoke at Morus Museum on greenspace and
Urban Garden Activism.
http://benjaminheimshepard.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-city-as-work-of-art-from-morus-to.html