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 – TBA.

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.

In Partnership with Elastic City and Residency Unlimited

MORE INFO: http://www.elastic-city.org/walks/moss-me

Walk Starting Point: 346 East Houston St. in Manhattan. Outside Le Petit Versailles

Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 6:30pm

Wed, Apr 18, 2012, 6:30pm

Wed, Apr 25, 2012, 6:30pm

Duration: 90 minutes

Admission: $20

This walk holds 8 people and is presented in partnership with Residency Unlimited and Le Petit Versailles, a program of Allied Productions. “Moss Me” will be held in English, but Tomaz also speaks Portuguese and Spanish.

In “Moss Me,” Tomaz Hipolito presents participants with a recipe for a green intervention amidst Manhattan’s dense urban landscape. Drawing from Tomaz’ background in architecture and current practice in visual art, the group will identify and evaluate abandoned objects to paint and use a homemade mixture of moss paint to coat the objects. Individually and in groups, participants will paint these objects, re-engaging the street’s detritus.

In partnership with Union Docs and MIX NYC

More info:

http://www.uniondocs.org/2012-04-introduction-to-super-8-filmmaking-yesterday-is-today

www.uniondocs.org/2012-04-16mm-filmmaking-workshop

All workshops @ UnionDocs, 322 Union Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Instructor: Megan Hess

Course fee: $144.70

Film/Lab fee: $30

Presented with MIX NY and Allied Productions

Intro to Personal 16mm Filmmaking

This 4-session class will introduce you to the basics of 16mm filmmaking. You will gain

an elementary knowledge of the Bolex camera and light meter, analog editing, and

visual storytelling. Each student will create their own 3-minute personal film exploring

an idea, feeling, notion or thought utilizing the tools of cinema.

Introduction to Super 8 Filmmaking:

Yesterday is Today

This 4-session class will introduce the basics of making a 3-minute black & white Super8 film. In

learning the language of film each student will document something that grips them about their life

right now. Playing on the nostalgic feeling super-8 film conjures for most viewers we will attempt to

create short films that display the sweetness of today through the lens of yesteryear.

Megan Hess is a personal filmmaker living in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BA from Emerson College and Masters Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her work ranges from experiments in celluloid to documentaries about travel and non-traditional living. She’s also fond of making silly youtube videos, stop motion animations and film-based art installations.

Le Petit Versailles Garden Fall/Winter 2011-2012

le dôme de plaisir d’hiver:
The Winter Pleasure Dome

Installation by John Pavlou, Sculptor

Reading Series curated by Golda Solomon

I am building a lightweight wood-framed structure using the existing octagonal stage as a base and covering it with a translucent material. The project would will be built in November, 2011 and stay in place until March 2012. It will be “folly” in the winter garden, as well as providing a functional interior space to extend the programming of Le Petit Versailles Garden into the winter. The themes and readers of the series will be:

December  1, 2011    World AIDS Day                        Anton Nimblett

January  5,  2012    Tribal Consciousness                Suzanne Rae Deschidn

February  9,  2012   Transitions           EJ Antonio

March 1,  2012    Women’s Herstory                          Golda Solomon

Le Petit Versailles  346 East Houston St. @ Avenue C

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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. http://www.alliedproductions.org

Additional support for  le dôme de plaisir d’hiver:The Winter Pleasure Dome 

is made possible by Robert Dell Vuyosevich.

Contacts: John Pavlou     (914) 420-1981      jnpavlou@hotmail.com

                                                                     Golda Solomon (914) 207-0477  gs@goldajazz.com