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Technicolor Garden: video and interview with Allyson Lipkin at Le Petit Versailles

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Saturday, August 20, 2016 8-10pm LE PETIT VERSAILLES COMMUNITY GARDEN 346 E. Houston St. / 247 E. 2nd St. RAIN OR SHINE The premier event of the 2016 Topside Press trans women writers’ workshop. Several emerging writers will read the…

FONTANAP(S) by Katherine Liberovskaya w/ Keiko Uenishi

AUGUST 27, 2016 8-10 PM LE PETIT VERSAILLES COMMUNITY GARDEN 346 E. Houston St. / 247 E. 2nd St. RAIN OR SHINE A video-audio lounging evening around a fountain, featuring "Amplifontana", a fountain-sculpture-video-audio installation by Katherine Liberovskaya, live interventions by…

TECHNICOLOR GARDEN: Installation by Allyson Lipkin

AUGUST 14, 2016 - SEPTEMBER 14, 2016 OPENING RECEPTION: AUGUST 14, 2016 7:30 PM LE PETIT VERSAILLES COMMUNITY GARDEN 346 E. Houston St. / 247 E. 2nd St. RAIN OR SHINE What is the Technicolor Garden? The Technicolor Garden is…

SUMMER NIGHTS ON JUPITER / URBAN ELF & RAT GIRL PRESENT: THE HOMECOMING

AUGUST 13, 2016 8 PM LE PETIT VERSAILLES COMMUNITY GARDEN 346 E. Houston St. / 247 E. 2nd St. RAIN OR SHINE ZIM ABU ET ER deep inside the bulging / eye of oblivion / a child is born /…

CAUGHT IN THE ACT: The Music of Chris Rael Goes Visual

AUGUST 5, 2016 8:30 PM Le Petit Versailles Garden Event 346 East Houston Street Church of Betty Video Art, Exotic Music Travels & the NYC Premiere of 'Far Away Home' Veteran LES community artist Chris Rael founded indie label Fang…

ELEPHANT COLLECTIVE PRESENTS – FRESH CINEMATIC CANDY

Friday, August 26, 2016 8:30pm LE PETIT VERSAILLES COMMUNITY GARDEN 346 E. Houston St. / 247 E. 2nd St. RAIN OR SHINE Incorporating narrative and abstract work, the program includes new films by Angela Ferraiolo, Noe Kidder, and Isaac Gerard.…

IN DIRECT ADDRESS, Film-Maker’s Coop Films by Paul Arthur, Amy Taubin and J. Hoberman

Saturday, July 23, 8-10pm Curated by Josh Guilford A program of works by filmmakers best known for their writing about other peoples' films. "In Direct Address" lets these artists speak for themselves, indirectly, through the medium of film. Amy Taubin,…

The Silence of Moss: Our Forgotten Mothers from Noelle King

An installation by Noelle King July 8 - August 7th, 2016 @ LPV Opening: Friday July 8, 2016 7-9pm Performance: Sunday, July 24 3-4pm Reading: Wed, August 3, 2016 11am-2pm Small moss gardens are nestled inside abandoned hubcaps. Translucent paintings…

Summer Nights on Jupiter: que he estado llorando por tu amor / llorando por

Join us July 16th, 2016 8pm - 10pm @ Le Petit Versailles as we continue our voyage through the beyond!! If you haven't ventured with us before, Summer Nights on Jupiter is in its 3rd summer exploring space with many…

	August 2017
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		1 art installation "Jeux d'Eaux" art installation "Jeux d'Eaux" July 29, 2017 - August 2, 2017 Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E Houston St, New York, NY 10009, USA OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY JULY 29 6PM TO 9PM VIEWING HOURS DAILY FROM 2:30PM TILL NIGHTFALL/ ends August 2nd Le Petit Versailles is thrilled to bring back "Jeux d'Eau", an installation by visual artist Nicholas Vargelis and architect and artist Pierre de Brun. The French title “Jeux d’Eau” is translated as water jets or can be literally translated to mean water games. The installation consists of garden hoses and water sprinklers commonly found in suburban yards. The water jets of the installation form a variety of aesthetic patterns controlled by a central set of valves made accessible for one to play or control the varying constellations of water mimicing public fountain displays. These different setting of the water displays are inspired by the 1953 experimental film "Eaux d'Artifice" by Kenneth Anger, featuring the fountains of an aristocratic garden in Italy. See more details •	2 art installation "Jeux d'Eaux" art installation "Jeux d'Eaux" July 29, 2017 - August 2, 2017 Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E Houston St, New York, NY 10009, USA OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY JULY 29 6PM TO 9PM VIEWING HOURS DAILY FROM 2:30PM TILL NIGHTFALL/ ends August 2nd Le Petit Versailles is thrilled to bring back "Jeux d'Eau", an installation by visual artist Nicholas Vargelis and architect and artist Pierre de Brun. The French title “Jeux d’Eau” is translated as water jets or can be literally translated to mean water games. The installation consists of garden hoses and water sprinklers commonly found in suburban yards. The water jets of the installation form a variety of aesthetic patterns controlled by a central set of valves made accessible for one to play or control the varying constellations of water mimicing public fountain displays. These different setting of the water displays are inspired by the 1953 experimental film "Eaux d'Artifice" by Kenneth Anger, featuring the fountains of an aristocratic garden in Italy. See more details •	3	4	5 The Film-Makers' Cooperative presents: 16 MM Flower Films in the Garden The Film-Makers' Cooperative presents: 16 MM Flower Films in the Garden August 5, 2017 @ 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E Houston St, New York, NY 10009, USA Curated by Courtney Muller The Film-Maker's Co-op is back again this year to show us some lovely floral-based experimental films from their catalogue! BOUQUETS 1-10 (1994-1995) by Rose Lowder. 12 min. Structured in the camera during "filming", according to modalities worked out progressively in my previous films, these researches develop to compose a film bunch of pictures picked every time in the same site, at various times. These bunches of pictures chosen and weaved in alternated order also include some accidental photogrammes which, such of the herbs "poor", can be harmful or useful, depending on circumstances. DORIS’ GARDEN (1994) by Joel Schlemowitz. 3 min. A garden portrait for Doris Kornish. IN THE CONSERVATORY (2010) by Caryn Cline. 5 min On a gray winter day in Seattle, the Volunteer Park Conservatory offers a trip to a different climate: lush, wildly colorful, strange, and beautiful. IN THE CONSERVATORY experimentally captures the essence of the place, through the use of direct animation, ambient sound, and music. Plants from the conservatory's winter collection were gleaned and pasted onto clear, 16mm film leader, then re-photographed on an optical printer while they were still fresh, resulting in a chance animation. The soundtrack combines ambient sound recorded in the Conservatory with a performance of a Samuel Barber composition, featuring Lucy Goeres on flute and Eliza Garth on piano. SUMMER (1970) by Rudolph Burckhardt. 15 min. "A few acres of Maine, a small lake in the woods, wild flowers, clouds, mosses, and mushrooms after the rain. The visual richness is fantastic, the objective eye is absorbing. Burckhardt often cuts by glimpses, the second time you see the film you see twice as much, and each time the power and depth of feeling are new." — Edwin Denby THE GARDENER OF EDEN (1981) by James Broughton. 8 min Filmed on the paradise island of Sri Lanka, this intense poetic work celebrates the eternal dance of nature's sexuality, and sings of the lost Eden we all search for but do not expect to find. In the midst of his fertile garden, while he awaits Adam's return, God tries to keep his eye on all the flowering exuberance he has seeded. The film is written and narrated by James Broughton, and photographed by Joel Singer. The music is performed on twin conch shells, and the central actor is in real life the most famous horticulturalist in Ceylon. THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS (1981) by Stan Brakhage. 2 min. Made with the assistance of the National Endowment of the Arts. This film (related to MOTHLIGHT) is a collage entirely made of mountain zone vegetation. As the title suggests it is an homage to (but also an argument with) Hieronymus Bosch. It pays tribute as well, and more naturally to The Tangled Garden of J. E. H. MacDonald and the flower paintings of Emil Nolde. GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN (1957) by Marie Menken. 5 min. Filmed in a garden through a powerful magnifying glass, filmmaker Marie Menken's GLIMPSE OF GARDEN is a simple visual poem accompanied by the sound of birdsongs. When GLIMPSE OF GARDEN was shown at the Cinemathèque Française in 1963, Jonas Mekas reported that the French audience laughed at it, embarrassed by the film's benign simplicity. Suffice it to say that GLIMPSE OF GARDEN represents Menken's interest in pure visuals and essentially feminine point-of-view. -- Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. See more details •
6	7	8	9 Suncat for City Suncat for City August 9, 2017 @ 9:00 pm - 11:59 pm Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E Houston St, New York, NY 10009, USA Projections by Joe Milutis Sounds by Keiko Uenishi Accidents of incidents, reflections on reflections Sun cat (or solkatt) is the Swedish word for sunlight effects on a wall. -- Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. See more details •	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17 UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet August 17, 2017 - September 3, 2017 Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E Houston St, New York, NY 10009, USA CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt. The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others. -- Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. See more details •	18 UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet August 17, 2017 - September 3, 2017 Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E Houston St, New York, NY 10009, USA CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt. The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others. -- Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. See more details Garrin Benfield @ LPV Garrin Benfield @ LPV August 18, 2017 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E Houston St, New York, NY 10009, USA We’re excited to have Garrin Benfield back at the garden this summer! Garrin Benfield's sound has been described as Freestyle Acoustic Rock. His music is a blend of moody, guitar driven rock and polyrhythmic groove all run through the filter of a very serious Singer/Songwriter. His talent shines through as a solo artist when he flat-picks his way through complicated and lightning-fast arrangements and also while he uses a Loop Station to create mesmerizing soundscapes upon which he lays blistering rock, blues and jazz licks, darkened by his extensive use of effect pedals. -- Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. See more details • •	19 UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet August 17, 2017 - September 3, 2017 Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E Houston St, New York, NY 10009, USA CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt. The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others. -- Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. See more details CHAKRA CABARET II: A Queer Performance Healing Event CHAKRA CABARET II: A Queer Performance Healing Event August 19, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E Houston St, New York, NY 10009, USA 7 years ago, Handsome Jeremy brought a family of performers together to explore in performance the ways in which spirituality, queer experience and life, and the need for healing and self-knowledge could be easily and beautifully braided in the medium of cabaret. Join us once again as work our way up/down/side/slant/above/below/outwith the chakras with your guides Handsome Jeremy, Peter Cramer, Connor Donahue, Dharma Jay, Carlo Maria, Jack Waters, And Mysterious Others To Be Announced! -- Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. See more details • •
20 UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet August 17, 2017 - September 3, 2017 Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E Houston St, New York, NY 10009, USA CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt. The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others. -- Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. See more details •	21 UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet August 17, 2017 - September 3, 2017 Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E Houston St, New York, NY 10009, USA CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt. The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others. -- Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. See more details •	22 UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet August 17, 2017 - September 3, 2017 Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E Houston St, New York, NY 10009, USA CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt. The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others. -- Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. See more details •	23 UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet August 17, 2017 - September 3, 2017 Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E Houston St, New York, NY 10009, USA CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt. The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others. -- Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. See more details •	24 UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet August 17, 2017 - September 3, 2017 Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E Houston St, New York, NY 10009, USA CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt. The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others. -- Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. See more details •	25 UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet August 17, 2017 - September 3, 2017 Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E Houston St, New York, NY 10009, USA CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt. The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others. -- Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. See more details ARCHIVE 2 Curated by Karl Cooney ARCHIVE 2 Curated by Karl Cooney August 25, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - August 26, 2017 12:00 am Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E Houston St, New York, NY 10009, USA At times, being a performance artist can feel more like being a failed librarian. This series is a small contribution to the historical record of performance art in New York City. Twelve artists total, four per night. Each performance will be lovingly documented and the video archived on YouTube. PERFORMERS: CoCo Cafe is a first-generation Chicanx interdisciplinary performance artist, cultural worker, curator, and organizer from the suburban “Bible Belt” of Dallas, Texas. As a person living within the diaspora, she practices performance as a decolonizing methodology, exploring indigeneity, queer identities, trauma, history, and memory through autobiography. Their practice is fueled by research in the U.S. and Mexico which traces the mass disappearances and forced displacement of people in her father’s home state of Guerrero. https://performanceco.tumblr.com/ Kledia Spiro (Tirana, Albania) creates videos, performances, installations, and paintings. She uses weightlifting as a symbol of survival, empowerment and celebration. Weightlifting becomes a vehicle for discussing women’s role in society, immigration and times of war. By experimenting with indeterminate methods, Spiro wants the viewer to access the otherwise inaccessible spaces. Her works are based on Freudian and Piagetian behavioral concepts: visions that reflect psycho-analysis, behavioral psychology, and a sensation of indisputability, combined with details of odd, eccentric, absurd, totemic and humoristic elements. By questioning where one is and the concept of movement, Spiro investigate the manipulation of lifting objects overhead and it's effects. http://www.klediaspiro.com Lorene Bouboushian is a performance artist who utilizes "self-exposure and vulnerability in real, risky ways" [CultureBot, 2011] and produces “thought-provoking commentary on social limits” [Minneapolis Star Tribune, 2016]. She has spread her black magic from Seattle to Madison, Athens, Beirut, and Zagreb. Projects include punk-noise duo ::missdick vibrocis (with Forced into Femininity), Know What Smokes—a durational duet with closed eyes and objects (with Kaia Gilje), and extent of explosive lament, a solo on class and liminal Lebaneseness. She has traveled to sites including University of Kentucky, Lexington, and Universidad de Las Americas Puebla to teach interdisciplinary, accessible performance workshops. www.lorenebouboushian.org Shawn Escarciga (Brooklyn, NY, USA) is an experimental movement artist whose work is based in Butoh and the creation of new movement paradigms, particularly around the queer body. His work has been shown throughout New York City (Panoply Performance Lab, Glasshouse ArtLifeLab[Performeando], Queens Museum[LiveArt.us], MIX NYC, Triskelion, Chinatown Soup{Performance Anxiety], The Clemente), in other cities (Boston, Chicago, Lexington), and also in another country once (Month of Performance Art - Berlin). He has collaborated and performed with artists and collectives throughout New York City, including Butoh company, The Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute, and the multidisciplinary social justice and performance group, Gender/Power, as well as teaching movement and Butoh workshops independently for Otion Front Studio and the University of Kenutcky. He thinks a lot about classism, queer visibility, subtlety, how to light patriarchal structures on fire effectively, and what it would be like to live in a country that supports non-commercial artists, which might look something like eating a 2000 calorie diet regularly and owning a Shiba Inu. -- Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. See more details • •	26 UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet August 17, 2017 - September 3, 2017 Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E Houston St, New York, NY 10009, USA CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt. The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others. -- Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. See more details ARCHIVE 2 Curated by Karl Cooney ARCHIVE 2 Curated by Karl Cooney August 25, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - August 26, 2017 12:00 am Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E Houston St, New York, NY 10009, USA At times, being a performance artist can feel more like being a failed librarian. This series is a small contribution to the historical record of performance art in New York City. Twelve artists total, four per night. Each performance will be lovingly documented and the video archived on YouTube. PERFORMERS: CoCo Cafe is a first-generation Chicanx interdisciplinary performance artist, cultural worker, curator, and organizer from the suburban “Bible Belt” of Dallas, Texas. As a person living within the diaspora, she practices performance as a decolonizing methodology, exploring indigeneity, queer identities, trauma, history, and memory through autobiography. Their practice is fueled by research in the U.S. and Mexico which traces the mass disappearances and forced displacement of people in her father’s home state of Guerrero. https://performanceco.tumblr.com/ Kledia Spiro (Tirana, Albania) creates videos, performances, installations, and paintings. She uses weightlifting as a symbol of survival, empowerment and celebration. Weightlifting becomes a vehicle for discussing women’s role in society, immigration and times of war. By experimenting with indeterminate methods, Spiro wants the viewer to access the otherwise inaccessible spaces. Her works are based on Freudian and Piagetian behavioral concepts: visions that reflect psycho-analysis, behavioral psychology, and a sensation of indisputability, combined with details of odd, eccentric, absurd, totemic and humoristic elements. By questioning where one is and the concept of movement, Spiro investigate the manipulation of lifting objects overhead and it's effects. http://www.klediaspiro.com Lorene Bouboushian is a performance artist who utilizes "self-exposure and vulnerability in real, risky ways" [CultureBot, 2011] and produces “thought-provoking commentary on social limits” [Minneapolis Star Tribune, 2016]. She has spread her black magic from Seattle to Madison, Athens, Beirut, and Zagreb. Projects include punk-noise duo ::missdick vibrocis (with Forced into Femininity), Know What Smokes—a durational duet with closed eyes and objects (with Kaia Gilje), and extent of explosive lament, a solo on class and liminal Lebaneseness. She has traveled to sites including University of Kentucky, Lexington, and Universidad de Las Americas Puebla to teach interdisciplinary, accessible performance workshops. www.lorenebouboushian.org Shawn Escarciga (Brooklyn, NY, USA) is an experimental movement artist whose work is based in Butoh and the creation of new movement paradigms, particularly around the queer body. His work has been shown throughout New York City (Panoply Performance Lab, Glasshouse ArtLifeLab[Performeando], Queens Museum[LiveArt.us], MIX NYC, Triskelion, Chinatown Soup{Performance Anxiety], The Clemente), in other cities (Boston, Chicago, Lexington), and also in another country once (Month of Performance Art - Berlin). He has collaborated and performed with artists and collectives throughout New York City, including Butoh company, The Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute, and the multidisciplinary social justice and performance group, Gender/Power, as well as teaching movement and Butoh workshops independently for Otion Front Studio and the University of Kenutcky. He thinks a lot about classism, queer visibility, subtlety, how to light patriarchal structures on fire effectively, and what it would be like to live in a country that supports non-commercial artists, which might look something like eating a 2000 calorie diet regularly and owning a Shiba Inu. -- Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. See more details • •
27 UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet August 17, 2017 - September 3, 2017 Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E Houston St, New York, NY 10009, USA CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt. The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others. -- Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. See more details •	28 UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet August 17, 2017 - September 3, 2017 Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E Houston St, New York, NY 10009, USA CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt. The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others. -- Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. See more details •	29 UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet August 17, 2017 - September 3, 2017 Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E Houston St, New York, NY 10009, USA CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt. The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others. -- Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. See more details •	30 UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet August 17, 2017 - September 3, 2017 Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E Houston St, New York, NY 10009, USA CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt. The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others. -- Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. See more details •	31 UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet UNCONTAINABLE Installation by Caitlin Rose Sweet August 17, 2017 - September 3, 2017 Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 E Houston St, New York, NY 10009, USA CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt. The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others. -- Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. See more details •