Paradise
Benefit 2011: Paradise Bizarre
Saturday, June 11 at 7-10pm
Please join us for our 2011 Benefit Party and Performance. This year we present Paradise Bizarre, a Fairground of Acts, Exhortations and Seductions, a carnival-bazaar designed to save your soul or make you forget you ever wanted to. Free booze and food thanks to our friends at Aliseo on Vanderbilt Ave, Cotta Bene on 3rd Ave, Joya Thai on Court St, Marquet Patisserie on Court St, Stinky Brooklyn on Smith St. and Brooklyn Fare on Schermerhorn. [continue reading…]
Sounding Paradise
Sunday, June 5, 6:30pm
A participatory sonic installation for voices conceived and facilitated by Andrea Goodman. Behind the walls of our physical world is a dimension of pure vibration. When we sing, [continue reading…]
Shadow-stalkers and Resurrected Chickens
Saturday, may 14 at 7 pm
Stories about the journey to paradise, in religious and literary traditions, feature animals as both obstacles and allies. In Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf, Grendel [continue reading…]
Paradise of Projected Light
Saturday, April 23 at 7pm
A program of short films by Ernie Gehr, Stan Brakhage, Jeanne Liotta, Sam Green and Mark Street will be followed by a post-screening discussion with Gehr, Green and Street. The films, curated by Lynne Sachs, Mark Street and [continue reading…]
Here Is Where We Meet
By Appointment with the artist
In Here Is Where We Meet, artist Madhu Kaza will travel to individual participant’s homes by appointment to read to them at bedtime. This project is part of the artist’s ongoing Hospitality series, [continue reading…]
Bedevilment In Paradise
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 16, 7-9m
For our last exhibition of the Paradise year, we focus on Bedevilment, in collaboration with our friends at Curious Matter, who will install an exhibit within the exhibit entitled The Naming of the Animals. [continue reading…]
Teknotherapy with Cyborg Nation
Make an appointment or drop in on Saturday, April 16, 7-10pm; or
1-5pm on Sunday, April 17; Saturday, April 23; Saturday, April 30; & Sunday, May 1.
We all have a relationship with at least one special machine, and many of us may qualify as cyborgs. Do you need help accepting your cyborg nature? How are your relationships with your machines? Have you considered therapy? In Teknotherapy, a Cyborg interlocutor (or “teknotherapist”) leads group and individual sessions [continue reading…]
Curious Matter Joins Proteus Gowanus In Paradise
Curious Matter: Sunday, April 3 – May 15
Proteus Gowanus: Friday, April 16 – July 16
Curious Matter, the exquisite Jersey City gallery, has joined Proteus Gowanus in the search for Paradise, mounting a parallel exhibit, [continue reading…]
