Projects
Recent projects include the current development of “Pestilence”, a three part operatic cycle initiated in a 2006 residency at the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice Italy. Other recent projects include the ongoing international liason with our Hamburg based partners, Frise, where in September 2009, Allied co-founders Peter Cramer and Jack Waters traveled with on-going collaborator Marc Arthur to exhibit “Triple Threat”, a three person exhibition that included screenings and an installation featuring Le Petit Versailles, and “Aktion Painting” : artifacts of a 2008 live work created as Inbred Hybrid Collective in Provincetown. In October 2009 artists from Frise were invited to exhibit, perform, and screen at Le Petit Versaille. For this U.S. visit Allied facilitated an adjunct exhibition including an artist talk by Sabine Mohr at Goethe Institut’s Wyoming Building. Mohr’s subject broached the civic influences behind the construction of the paradigm of the individual artist, and its relation to public versus private space – matters that have become central to the ongoing active discourse between Allied and Frise in our relationship to ABC No Rio as the progenitor of the creative principles. Other projects include our ongoing urban mural project encompassing an intergenerational lexicon of broad ranging spheres spanning nationality and enculturation. Starting with Swiss artist Ingo Guisedammer (AKA Grrrr)’s mural depicting Le Petit Versailles on the wall of the adjacent building, to Carlo Quispe and Laura Campos’s “Alien Life” on 2nd Street in the vicinity of Le Petit Versailles, the mural project includes the ongoing mentor-based “Burning Decontrol”, launched by the mural executed by Ben Rothenberg under the direction of longstanding Allied artist Leslie Lowe. In Fall 2009 Allied participated in the conference on sex and gender, Artivistic held in Montreal. Allied continues its longstanding relationship with MIX NYC since its inception as the New York Lesbian And Gay Experimental Film Festival. Stemming from Allied’s long active involvement in queer film, video, and media as the originators of the extension of Abc No Rio’s film program, Naked Eye Cinema, the relationship with MIX is most prevalent with our co- facilitation of MIX’s A Different Take, the queer youth media workshop where sessions are hosted at Le Petit Versailles, and whose liason with the New York Department of Parks and Recreation was initiated. While continuing to foster the development of new, innovative media and cinema-based art, Allied is in the ongoing process of documenting, cataloguing, preserving, and exhibition the canon of works that define the Naked Eye Cinema.
Since inception in the early ‘80s Allied Productions has facilitated countless projects local to its Lower East Side base. Allied has also presented its uniquely collectivist cross disciplinary projects throughout the United States and Europe. In 1984, in the years during which Allied was the fostering influence behind Abc No Rio, Allied conducted a tour to Ibiza, Spain where Allied’s principal artist organizers inaugurated the reconstruction of an archaic temple built on the country home grounds of Ingvild Goetz, the collector of contemporary art. “Miami, The Last Resort” was a 1989 project that Allied emulated from NYC’s own Carlton Arms Hotel. Fifteen Artists traveled to create installations in the hotel rooms of the now defunct Leonard Beach Hotel during the nascent revival of Miami Beach. The action contributed to the foundation of a temporary self enclosed art district in South Beach, where the hotel stood. Among the tours of the Abc No Rio visual art archive that we foster with the collections’ related ephemera includes the 1990 anniversary show “Abc No Rio: 7 Days, 10 Years” at Hamburg Kunstlerhaus, the show that launched our long relationship with the artists of Frise.
