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Le Petit Versailles presents

LAST CALL

Torsten Bruch, Jörg Hochapfel,  Sabine Mohr,

Christoph Rothmeier, Llaura Sünner, Joern Zehe



October 2 – 12 , 2009

  Installations, Film and Music in association with Hamburg artist  
cooperative FRISE.  http://www.frise.de
  From October 2 - 12 , the FRISE project “Last Call ”  at the garden  
Le Petit Versailles in the East Village of Manhattan serving as  “base  
camp” for installations, music and screenings.  A site specific  
installation for the garden "Le Petit Versailles" itself realized by  
Sabine Mohr, Christoph Rothmeier and Llaura Sünner will install a real  
utopia of Versailles en miniature in the garden. Other events are  
scheduled to take place at Goethe Institut’s Wyoming Building.

Opening  Friday October 2nd  from 6-9 pm.   @ Le Petit Versailles.

Concert @ 7pm-HUNGER (Jörg Hochapfel & Christoph Rothmeier)  http://www.hungermuzik.de



October 3rd @ 8pm.  ME is many YOU

Screening videos by Torsten P Bruch @ Le Petit Versailles



October 5th   @ 8pm   << NOTE LOCATION >> Goethe-Institut Wyoming  
Building  5  East 3rd St.

Sabine Mohr and Torsten Bruch speak on artist organized projects  
including FRISE, WSW#3  and Hamburg White Box and present an  
exhibition of ephemeral objects, posters, invites, etc. Exhibition  
will be on view at Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building thru October 10th.

http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/ney/prj/wyo/en5032894v.htm

This event is sponsored with support from Goethe-Institut New York.



October  9th  Friday   8pm. @ Le Petit Versailles

Screening: Hunger Videos and Joern Zehe



The focus of this project is the artistic exploration of the use and  
preservation of public space and public premises - particularly open –  
green - spaces in a highly developed, urban environment. The small  
park of Le Petit Versailles in the Lower Eastside of Manhattan, a  
little paradise in the midst of a highly contested and now highly  
valued property market, is also a symbol for the artists’ engagement  
against gentrification and ideally suited as a platform for this  
project.

Closely linked to this is the question of how non-profit-work of  
individual artists and artist groups can be maintained and organized  
in such an environment. The experiences, which the Künstlerhaus FRISE  
has gained in its turbulent history in Hamburg, correspond to the  
situation in New York on different levels and are addressed in LAST  
CALL.

  The project Hamburg LAST CALL traces different levels of information  
about the circumstances of contemporary artwork and the situation of  
artists in the city of Hamburg /Germany in general and the specific  
situation of the Hamburg artist cooperative FRISE.  Since FRISE/ alias  
Künstlerhaus Hamburg e.V. was the first so called artist house  
(Künstlerhaus) in Hamburg and Germany-. established in 1978, its  
construction and reconstruction in 2003 - gives an example and a  
genuine story of how an artist cooperative survived gentrification and  
(art) market hype. Since 1989 when Künstlerhaus, hosted the ABC NO RIO  
SHOW "Ten Years Seven Days"   the artist collective had to leave their  
place, find and reconstruct another building.

In conjunction with the ABZ a video- and filmmaker organization they  
established FRISE in 2003. To avoid a repetition of the gentrification  
story and another foreseeable loss of the new place they eventually  
founded the FRISE eG Cooperative in 2008 and succeeded to buy the  
hereditary tenure of the real estate from the city for 1.4 million €.  
So now 40 artists have a safe place to live and work in FRISE for the  
next 36 years.

Three most important issues define the work of FRISE:

PRODUCTION . EXCHANGE, EXHIBITION of contemporary art - 40 artist live  
and work in the house ( painting, sculpture, drawing, video,  
experimental filmmaking a.o.), a guest studio for foreign artists was  
established to pursue art exchange as well as FRISE artists invite  
artists from all over the world to stay and work in FRISE. Since 1978  
a exhibition program is realized by the FRISE artists as curators, the  
exhibition space is subventioned by the city.

  FRISE alias Künstlerhaus Hamburg as an effective cooperation of  
artists had a strong impact an the cultural policy of the Hamburg city  
and Hamburg´s artist scene - in Hamburg now has developed an  
independent art scene with at least 16 to 20 independent art spaces -  
which have cooperated in the last two years 2007 /08 in an own  
festival called WSW 1 and WSW 2. The project roughly outlines this  
development by documents, screenings and catalogues. To present the  
recent video- and filmmaking activities at FRISE "Last Call" will show  
a video and short film program of members of ABZ and FRISE, like:  
Torsten Bruch, Jörn Zehe, Christoph Rothmeier.

  A site specific installation for the garden "Le Petit Versailles"  
itself realized by Sabine Mohr, Christoph Rothmeier and Llaura Sünner  
will install a real utopia of Versailles en miniature in the garden.


FILM PROGRAM NOTES
Hula

3:11 min.  Mai 2009

Three dancers are showing their amateur Hula performance. During which  
they show the world’s first barefoot tap dance.

Music by the Royal Hawaiians “The Hula Blues” (1922).

Three tryouts to fly (Drei Versuche zu Fliegen)

6:27min.  December 2008

Three people in an astronaut costume are celebrating the moment of  
floating in space. They prepare themselves until they go slightly down  
and start to float. Because of the theatrical proposition one believes  
in the illusion of floating into space.

Auto Chronographe

4:23 min. A cell phone film  July 2006

During one month Torsten P Bruch filmed his portrait with the distance  
of an arm length. To a triptychon mounted his instable presence  
changes so he is sometimes not recognizable anymore...

Bluebeard

A film based on the theater piece „Blaubart - Hoffnung der  
Frauen“ (Bluebeard – Hope of the women) by Dea Loher. Played and  
realized by Torsten P Bruch.  Spoken Language is German with English  
subtitles. 33min., June 2007,

The original story of Bluebeard was published by Charles Perrault in  
France the year 1695. The German author Dea Loher wrote a modern  
version in 1999. In her version the women murderer Bluebeard is an  
ordinary shoe salesman. He gets acquainted with 7 women who love him  
out of every boundary “excessively”.

TP Bruch took Lohers story and transferred it into a pure personal  
love discussion.

He incorporates every role. He plays Bluebeard and also the seven  
women. This means he falls in love with himself. He poisons himself  
but he will also be killed by himself. The women murderer becomes a  
self murderer. The dramatic resolution returns to its own source.

Le Petit Versailles is a NYC public community garden in the East  
Village that presents a season of events including art exhibitions,  
music, film/video, performance, theater, workshops and community  
projects from May - October.
LPV is a project of Allied Productions, Inc., a non profit arts  
organization. http://www.alliedproductions.org

Support for FRISE/Last Call is provided by Robert Dell Vuyosevich,
Behörde für Kultur,Sport und Medien Hamburg,
WSW#3-Hamburg , FRISE and Goethe-Institut New York.

LPV events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc.,

Citizens for NYC, 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. Additional support, in part, by public funds from the  
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.



Le Petit Versailles
346 East Houston St.  < Avenue B & C>
petitversailles at earthlink.net        http:// 
www.lpvtv.blogspot.com       212 529 8815
Subway: F/V- Second Ave. -  J/M/F- Delancey/Essex



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