Fame & Shame in the L.E.S.

FAME & SHAME IN THE L.E.S.
NEW WORKS BY EMERGING QUEER ARTISTS
JUNE 30 - JULY 30, 2011

New York, NY, June 21, 2011 - The Department of Transformation and co-producer  Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center present Fame and Shame in the Lower East Side, a sumptuous constellation of queer performance artists debuting experimental work Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays in July. A diverse array of performance, film, installation, photography, theatre, and dance will be presented by emerging artists Quito Ziegler, Heather Ács, Justin Sayre, Professor Speedwagon, and Princess Tiny & the Meats.
Thursday and Friday shows will be held at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, 107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY. ($5 cover) Saturday engagements will be held at Le Petit Versaille Garden, 346 E. Houston St., New York, NY. (Free, RSVP required: http://bit.ly/rsvplpv)
The series will begin on Thursday, June 30th and run through Saturday, July 2nd with Quito Ziegler and friends presenting an evening of film, music and dance. The event includes the premier of Quito Ziegler’s super-8 film The Dream of Wild Ponies Dancing, an acoustic set by Cristy Road (Thursday and Friday), a dance piece by Little Wings (Friday and Saturday), a 16mm film by Megan Hessenthaler, and an acoustic set by Princess Tiny & The Meats. Photographs by Nogga Schwartz and Quito Ziegler will also be shown.
THE DREAM OF WILD PONIES DANCING (2011)
The Dream of Wild Ponies Dancing documents the wild ponies of the night in their natural habitat.  In the quiet deep green of a sandy midnight forest, four wild ponies recognize each other as kin and develop a sense of connection and family.  Half human, all beast, the ponies run free on a mystical adventure through the dunes, arriving to a deserted beach as gray dawn breaks.  The movement is captured silently in super-grainy black and white super-8 film, presented with original score by Princess Tiny & the Meats.
Quito Ziegler is an independent producer, photographer, faeriebird and dreamer.  She shoots in the dark and leaves a trail of glitter behind her.  Quito received her MFA from the International Center of Photography/Bard College in 2008, where she now serves as faculty.  Recent projects include curating and producing Into the Neon at chashama: Chelsea and The Artist is Absent at 25CPW, producing the documentary photography exhibitions Moving Walls 16, 17, and 18 at the Open Society Institute, and travelling cross-country on an epic faerie journey in an unmarked white van called the Trojan Pony.

For more information and complete schedule, please visit:
http://www.departmentoftransformation.org/

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