CLEOPATRA'S

Opening Jan 20th - Solo show Christine Würmell at Cleopatra's Berlin

2012-01-16T15:49:00.001-08:00

Christine Würmell
Von Höfen und Gärten
(Of Courtyards and Gardens)

Opening Reception: Friday, Jan 20, 7 - 10 pm

Jan 20 – Feb 4, 2012
open Saturdays 1 - 6 pm and by appointment

Cleopatra's Berlin wishes you a joyful 2012 and will be happy to welcome you at its first exhibition this year, opening on Friday.

German artist Christine Würmell (*1972) presents the solo exhibition Von Höfen und Gärten (Of Courtyards and Gardens) comprising a wall text and two serial works amongst others. They take into account the urban context and role of the exhibition’s venue as an engaging space in flux within the ongoing economic and socio-political restructuring processes in Berlin. Visual and linguistic phenomena of these processes such as the language of real estate advertisement or the intervening imagery of graffitti, are both, the matter and material Würmell uses to raise questions about different ideas of living.

Christine Würmell lives and works in Berlin and is currently represented in the group exhibition Farbe im Fluss (Color in Flux) at the Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen. In 2009 she had the solo exhibition Dissonanzproduktion at the project space of the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin that was managed by Gregor Hose who proposed her to Cleopatra’s and organized her exhibition there.

For further information on Christine Würmell please visit her website.

For images and appointments please contact ccleopatras@gmail.com.

Cleopatra's Berlin
Kluckstraße 31
10785 Berlin

2011-12-20T07:52:00.001-08:00

Jeanette Mundt

Three Films

EyeEclipse, The GlowWorm, The Lamp

Opening celebration at Cleopatra's Greenpoint on 12/21/11, from 7 - 9pm

Cleopatra's is located at: 110 Meserole Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222
For more information please see our website: www.cleopatras.us

2011-12-09T08:36:00.001-08:00

The Chair After Its Method of Implementation

A play in one act by Phillip Birch

Two performances at Cleopatra's Greenpoint:

12/16/11 at 8pm AND 12/17/11 at 7pm

first come first seated, please arrive early

This is a dialogue on the history of the Western Worlds regression to spirituality in the face of new technological epochs. The War of Currents serves as the framework within which the struggle is articulated. The relationship between the dialogue's primary characters, the followers of Vulcan and the followers of Mammon, serve to reduce historical events to a binary system. Through this shifting opposition, the actants within the narrative are exposed. In the eye of the Industrial Revolution, the necessity of spirituality was born. From this starting point we return to the era of Biopower, of touchscreen phones and GPS; to the future and the years of corporate oligarchy, of videophonic telephones, meat tablets and robot hearts. The initial antithesis of these developents is the reawakening of the spirit. But the opposition between technology and spirituality rings false – both have been instrumentalized to reify existing class structures and indemnify the oligarchy, regardless of what form it takes.

A dualism exists between the voice M and A Man, our more or less visible agents within this drama. A solipsistic reflexivity exists in the space between these actors, a self-othering continual circle. The feeling of limitlessness or the oceanic helps us to conceptualize (perhaps falsely) how the universals work and specifically how the particulars function. The voice of M is mediated through technology, never having once been voiced by a human being. M is linked to the Man through past and future tenses. The Man serves as a stand-in, a simulacrum for our upcoming Days of Future Past. Seven scarves will tie this Man to a Chair.

Ess Ess is pleased to present readings by Jamieson Webster & Simon Critchley

2011-12-07T08:18:00.000-08:00

Ess Ess is pleased to present readings by

Jamieson Webster & Simon Critchley

Monday, December 12th @ 8 PM | Spirits. Conversation. Good times.

Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in New York City. She teaches at Eugene Lang College and New York University. She is the author of The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis: On Unconscious Desire and its Sublimation (Karnac) and is a woman more sinning than sinned against.

Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor at the New School for Social Research, author of the forthcoming Impossible Objects (Polity) and The Faith of the Faithless(Verso) and is a man more sinned against than sinning.

Cleopatra’s

110 Meserole Avenue

b/w Manhattan & Leonard

Brooklyn, NY 11222

Nassau G stop

For more about Ess Ess please visit: essandessenterprises.tumblr.com

ESS ESS PRESENTS: ERICA EHRENBERG & DONALD BRECKENRIDGE

2011-11-14T07:46:00.000-08:00

ESS ESS

PRESENTS

ERICA EHRENBERG & DONALD BRECKENRIDGE

Monday, November 14

8pm

Cleopatra’s

110 Meserole Avenue @ Manhattan Avenue

Greenpoint, Brooklyn (near the Nassau G Stop)

part reading, part hangout

www.cleopatras.us

www.essandessenterprises@tumblr.com

Sunkist

2011-11-12T05:18:00.000-08:00

Sunkist

Works by Becky Kolsrud,William Kaminski, David Zuttermeister, and Marina Pinsky

Opening Friday November 11th, 7 - 10pm

November 12th - December 10th, 2011.

(Saturdays 2 - 6 and by appointment)

Cleopatra's Berlin

Kluckstraße 31, Berlin, Germany

This exhibition brings together the works of four artists using notions of externality,and temporal dimensionality, and the body or bodily as common points of reference. Portraits, styles, object forms, and cinematic tropes are cited, layered, or re-configured in ways that beckon towards the beneath or beyond.Rebecca Kolsrud re-presents moments of self-conscious display, drawing from the pages of a 1969 college yearbook as source material, in her untitled oil pastel series (all 2011). In these images of individual women, bodies hide behind clothes and faces harden into masks. Frozen smiles turn into inscrutable grimaces, a motif that recurs in her painting Kraft America’s Junior Miss Pageant (2011). Ultimately it is the women’s attire, set against dark voids—of blacked-out backgrounds, of disappearing bodies—that is most apparent, the outer layers of clothing the most colorfully expressive and most sincerely depicted.

In Marina Pinsky’s untitled photographs (all 2011), we see sculptural collages made from architectonic modules and architectural signifiers, interspersed with fleshy bodies or ephemeral mounds. Decorative patterns and cut-out illustrations of buildings sit on top of and underneath bricks, boxes, and cubes, whose forms contrast sharply with clumps of shapely fruits or soluble crystals. Punctuated by punchy colors and clips of vernacular pictorial idioms, these physical set-ups are then flattened and packaged into the two-dimensional representational space of the photograph.

In David Zuttermeister’s sculpture, Rising Falling (2011), three forms gently rest on top of each other: a tent lies on one end of a U-shaped tube, which is held up by two three-legged bases. A form that harkens back to Franz Anton Mesmer’s pseudo-scientific baquet, the tent also recalls the fashionable panniers of the aristocratic women in Paris (including Marie Antoinette) who would crowd around the baquet to be titillated byits “healing” electrical current. One end of the tube penetrates into the skirt of the tent as the other end phallically rises up into the open air. The erotic subtext of the baquet’s history rises to the surface but is sublimated, opaquely addressed but everywhere present.

William Kaminski’s video Car Chase (2011) features a chase, literally and metaphorically. An androgynous protagonist frantically drives through the streets and highways of Los Angeles, the sunny city of dreams, as if being followed. The cheap, gritty surveillance views of the cameras convey the reality of the footage, which is contradicted yet enhanced by the high flowing melodrama of the protagonist’s performance. Like the indeterminacy of the protagonist’s identity, it remains unclear who is chasing the protagonist and for what reason. The protagonist chases after itself as the narrative folds into a loop, a headlong plunge into an endless surface. Sunkist is the first exhibition in Europe for all four artists.

Text by Kavior Moon

Swiss Gallery

2011-11-03T22:13:00.000-07:00

Nov 6 - Dec 10

Anna Rosen

Jason Loebs

Walter Benjamin Smith

Cleopatraʼs 110 Meserole, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Reception: Sunday Nov 6th, 6 - 8pm

This exhibition follows a preview of itself that took place at Night Gallery in Los Angeles titled LA, Switzerland. LA, Switzerland examined artistic numbness, expectation, and neutrality. Swiss Gallery is the afterimage of these interests.

Swiss Gallery w/ Hole is the new version of a sculpture titled Swiss Gallery from the preview exhibition. Swiss Gallery, done again, this time with a hole, is opportunistic... a structural hole that de-mystifies Swiss Gallery. You see through it. It becomes a tool, like the dissociated pair of Sketchers Shape-ups. A tool for living while working (ass).

Soft Division is a painting making use of the gallery floor as oil-primed substrate. Nurses and doctors report a color-field afterimage of this color subsequent to viewing an open body. The use of this color on a space excuses the reported afterimage by precluding it. The painting is varnished with an eau de toilette...

Untitled is the re-presentation of a book on non-photography titled The Concept of Non- Photography that has been integrated with a value-inflated women’s wallet. Untitled could have been titled, Don’t Judge a Book by its Lover. The two forms find compatibility through their near equivalent surfaces.

The gallery itself is doubled by its prequel. The exhibition is an afterimage produced by the intentional folding back on itself, implicating us as workers shaping up.

2011-10-26T15:07:00.000-07:00

Nouvelle Randonnee

After Apologies 2. - Deserve Water

Closing Sunday October 30th

Cleopatra's presents dual events by Nouvelle Randonnée on Sunday October 30th in both the Berlin and New York spaces.

Cleopatra's (Greenpoint) 1 -3 pm

110 Meserole Ave

Brooklyn NY

Cleopatra’s Berlin 7 -9 pm

Kluckstraße 31

Berlin, Germany

As Thomas sat in the Boeing 787 Dream-liner, his mind drifted:

To be without history, only future. No weights attached, no responsibilities except that of arrival. Even the arrival is unsettled, without schedule. In a sense, it’s as if everything that ever happened up until this point bears no consequence. There was never any point of departure, so the arrival is without return. No re-turn just turn. How incredible it must be to hurl oneself through time weightlessly. To stop time and simply exist.

Will there be people watching?

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“When Joan of Arc crowned her King at Rheims she became immortal. When Lafayette risked his all to help the struggling Americans he wrote his memory forever across a mighty continent. Shepard boy David in five minutes achieved with his sling a place in history which has defied all time.

These three shining names represent the triumph of the idealism of youth, and we would not speak of them with such reverence to-day had their motives been less pure or had they ever for an instant thought of themselves or their place in history.”

-excerpt from “WE” by Charles A. Lindbergh

Nouvelle Randonnée: Alex Auriema, Morgan Belenguer, Beny Wagner
http://www.nouvellerandonnee.org/

LYNNE COOKE. 3 SHOWS. 1993. 1999. 2007. Curated by Montserrat Albores

2011-09-18T10:20:00.000-07:00

LYNNE COOKE. 3 SHOWS aims to unravel the curatorial practice of Lynne Cooke and presents documentation of three shows curated by Cooke between 1993 and 2007. Cleopatra's proudly presents the first U.S.-exhibition of original excerpts from Cooke’s archives, organized by curator Montserrat Albores. This selection debuted at Petra in Mexico City, a nonprofit curatorial project Albores founded.

Cooke's exhibitions referenced include: “On Kawara: One Thousand Days One Million Years” of 1993, “Stan Douglas and Douglas Gordon: Double Vision” of 1999 (Both created for Dia Center for the Arts of New York), and “Ellipsis: Chantal Akerman, Lili Dujourie, Francesca Woodman”, 2007 produced independently and presented first in Mexico at the Museo Rufino Tamayo and subsequently at Lunds Konsthalle in Sweden and Dundee Contemporary Arts in Scotland.

Opening reception Sunday September 18th
September 18th - October 23rd
Sundays 12-6 or by appointment

Cleopatra's Greenpoint

110 Meserole Avenue

Nouvelle Randonnee - After Apologies

2011-09-04T11:03:00.000-07:00

Nouvelle Randonnee - After Apologies

Alex Auriema

Morgan Belenguer

Beny Wagner

Opening Saturday September 17th 7 - 10pm

September 17th - October 30th

http://www.nouvellerandonnee.org/

Cleopatra's Berlin

Kluckstrasse 31

IRVING FELLER: MONOCHROME DRAWINGS

2011-08-15T07:30:00.000-07:00

IRVING FELLER: MONOCHROME DRAWINGS
Organized by Jenn Nielsen
August 16th - September 4th, 2011

Opening: August 16th, 6-8pm

Cleopatra's

110 Meserole Ave.

Brooklyn, NY 11222

www.cleopatras.us

***Exhibition hours***

OPEN: Tuesday-Sunday 12-6pm

“When the least you do, does more than the most you do,
then you have found something.”
— Irving Feller, 1996

Cleopatra’s is pleased to present IRVING FELLER:
MONOCHROME DRAWINGS, organized by Jenn Nielsen.
This installation marks Feller’s first gallery exhibition.
Irving Feller was born in Astoria, Queens in 1928,
the son of a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant, Feller was
trained to nail, glue, and assemble fur in his family’s
shop at a young age. Feller graduated from The High
School of Music and Art in New York City in 1946, and
went on to attend The Art Students League of New
York, École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Chouinard
Art Institute in Los Angeles.

Feller studied with significant American artists
including Reginald Marsh, Harry Sternberg, Nahum
Tschacbasov, Morris Kantor and M. Peter Piening. After
Wassily Kandinsky and Henri Matisse, Feller was
inspired most by his teacher artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi,
whose refrain, “Attitude! Attitude!” encouraged emotion
and instinct in his practice. Feller’s drawings
promote directness, simplicity, and self-expression;
His is a pragmatic path that removes impediments to
creativity, evident in his choice of materials—copy
paper, ballpoint pen, and dollar-store markers.

In 1952 Feller took over his uncle’s fur shop on
Greenpoint’s Manhattan Avenue, continuing the family’s
business. The storefront served as a shop as well
as a studio and a place to discuss his ideas about
art, religion, love and revolution with customers and
neighbors alike. Fur sales were slow in the summer
months and Feller made cross-country road trips to
Native American reservations. Trading furs for turquoise
jewelry and other objects, Native American design
came to inform Feller’s artwork as well as store
inventory. Although he was operating outside of the
conventional art world, Feller was not in isolation.

Feller’s Greenpoint storefront-studio closed in April
2011, this exhibition brings to light only a portion of
Feller’s work. Selected from thousands of drawings
and hundreds of paintings, this excerpt of monochrome
drawings introduces Feller’s essential modes
of abstraction.

Jenn Nielsen (b.1979), a Brooklyn-based artist, met
Irving Feller in his storefront in 2005. A copy of Kandinsky’s
Concerning The Spirituality in Art sitting on
the store’s radiator caught Nielsen’s eye as she was
then programming events for the Solomon R. Guggenheim’s
exhibition RUSSIA!. After discussing the power
of the pyramid and values of modern painting, it was
clear to Nielsen that Feller had something to important
to share; she is now directing a forthcoming feature
length documentary about Irving Feller, entitled
How Big Little Is.

PRINCESS DRAGON MOM presents RACCOON

2011-08-12T11:46:00.000-07:00

PRINCESS DRAGON MOM presents RACCOON

an installation / performance

with
Davin Brainard
Dion Fischer
Claire D'Aoust
and
Warren Defever

Friday, August 12 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm (one night only)

at
Cleopatra's Greenpoint
110 Meserole Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11222

The Enemy, Cleopatra's Berlin

2011-08-01T13:11:00.000-07:00

Friday, August 5^th 8:30 pm

Saturday, August 6^th8:30pm

RSVP REQUIRED

The Enemy is an ongoing collaboration between artist Tyler Coburn and filmmaker Jeffrey K. Miller that revisits the life and career of Wyndham Lewis, an English painter, critic and novelist best known as the leader of a 1910s avant-garde movement called Vorticism.

The project commenced in 2008 with a manifesto for Cleopatra’s, New York, and will continue, at the Berlin space, with live listening events at 8:30pm on the nights of Friday, August 5^th and Saturday, August 6^th. Seating is limited, so please RSVP to with your preferred night, and we will confirm in a timely fashion.

Listen: http://www.tylercoburn.com/enemy/Enemy.mp3

Cleopatra's Berlin Kluckstraße 31 D-10785 Berlin

2011-07-23T07:05:00.000-07:00

Saturday, July 30 at 9:00pm
	Cleopatra's Berlin Kluckstraße 31 D-10785 Berlin

Cleopatra's Presents: EYE IN THE SKY - JULY 30-31

2011-07-20T07:51:00.000-07:00

Saturday, July 30 at 3:00pm - July 31 at 4:00pm

The Re Institute - 1395 Boston Corners Rd - Millerton, NY

Please bring a tent and stay the night! There are miles of unrestricted camping available on site.

Participants (to date):

Chris Verene: The Self-Esteem Salon with Jessica Grable, "The Self-Preservation Series"
http://youtu.be/CQ6KpwRfkk8

ESS & ESS Enterprises
Kate Sennert and Melissa Seley present ghost stories for upstate!
http://essandessenterprises.tumblr.com/

Fat Worm of Error
http://yeay.suchfun.net/artists/fwoe.html
Experimental/Noise/concept ual art avant garde rock band from Northampton, Massachusetts. They utilize traditional rock instruments as well as homemade electronics and other modified instruments. In their live performances, the singer engages in homemade pageantry with homemade surrealist costumes.

J. Patrick Walsh III
http://ps1.org/studio-visit/artist/j-patrick-walsh-3
& Natalie Labriola

Jory Rabinovitz with the video ghost of Peter Coffin

Travis Boyer - Indigo Girls performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkja2S4JwrE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4JVrngiPs4

Late Night Dance Trackz + GROIND MUZIK by DJ JAR JAR STINKY

A theater piece by Phillip Birch

Rachel Mason - Little Band of Sailors
http://rachelannmason.com/
masked in trees

YOU. a wave band by Brad Taormina and Trevor Millay. wild lights

turning a year older artist Andres Laracuente
http://www.ajlwork.com/

Kite-Making Workshop by Haptic Lab's Emily Fischer:
http://www.hapticlab.com/pages/about-us

Sunrise Cafe by Matt Lombardi & Emily Fischer

Cleopatra's PhotoBooth, Chessy Peek, Art Game, Temporary Tattoo Parlor, StarWalk,

Grilling, Swimming, Exploring

The Re Institute: http://thereinstitute.com/

How to get there: http://maps.google.com/maps?hq=http%3A%2F%2Fmaps.google.com%2Fhelp%2Fmaps%2Fdirections%2Fdriving%2Fmapleft.kml&f=d&dirflg=d&utm_campaign=en&utm_medium=van&utm_source=en-van-na-us-gns-dd

JO ANN BEARD & JIBADE-KHALIL HUFFMAN Read new work

2011-07-19T06:54:00.000-07:00

ESS ESS SUNSET SERIES No.2

Monday, July 18
8pm

Cleopatra's
110 Meserole Avenue @ Manhattan Ave.
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
(Near the Nassau G stop)

Part reading, part hangout. Come and drink up!

ESS ESS Sunset Series is a monthly presentation of talks, readings and writers’ projects presented in collaboration with Cleopatra’s. Co-curated by Melissa Seley and Kate Sennert, ESS ESS is an ongoing project that provides fans of the written word an intimate space to congregate. This summer, S.S.S.S. will feature a wild abundance of new work from several disciplines—comedy, fiction and art criticism to name a few—for friends and neighbors in Greenpoint, Brooklyn at dusk.

www.essandessenterprises.tumblr.com

DEATH VALLEY

2011-07-12T08:31:00.001-07:00

DEATH VALLEY

Sam Falls & Nick van Woert

Opening: Sunday, July 17, 4-6pm

Cleopatra's, 110 Meserole Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Mark & Kyoko present Amerika, América, Amerique! through July 31st at Cleopatra's Berlin:

2011-07-04T12:35:00.000-07:00

Mark & Kyoko
present:

Amerika, América, Amerique!

Exhibition + Block Party!

Opening: 4 July 2011, 4-11 pm
5 - 31 July 2011 (Saturdays & by appointment)

Hosted by Cleopatra's Berlin
Kluckstraße 31
10785 Berlin-Schöneberg

Featuring work by:

Dan Bodan
Juliette Bonneviot
Marlous Borm
Tina Braegger
Nicolas Ceccaldi
Anne de Vries
Simon Denny
Yngve Holen
Thomas Julier
Ilja Karilampi
Dafna Maimon
Oscar Peters
Dan Rees
Benedicte Sehested
Thomas Sauter
Maxwell Simmer
Timur Si-qin

+

Lay-ups & 3 pointers by Owen Hoskins & Raoul Zöllner
4-Square by Nik Kosmas
Margaritas by TIMES (Calla Henkel, Lindsay Lawson, Max Pitegoff)
Loads of summer jams by Your Body & DJ Sweat
Hotdogs
Some watermelon
Fireworks
The works

-

America

Vroom
Vroom

America

(haiku by Maxwell Simmer)

Becca Albee, Performance Saturday July 2nd at Cleopatra's Berlin

2011-07-02T12:00:00.000-07:00

Please join us Saturday, July 2nd at 8pm for a performance by New York based artist Becca Albee.
The performance is part of the exhibition currently on view, F is For Fake, organized by Amanda Parmer.

Cleopatra's Berlin will be open from 2pm the date of the performance.

ESS ESS SUNSET SERIES - Monday June 13th 8PM

2011-06-13T06:59:00.000-07:00

JULIE KLAUSNER + HOSSANNAH ASUNCION
READ NEW WORK

Part reading, part hangout.

ESS ESS is about pluralism.
Many kinds of writers.
Many kinds of writing.
Many ways of sharing.
The more the more.

Co-curated by Kate Sennert and Melissa Seley.
http://essandessenterprises.tumblr.com/

Ess Ess Readers June 13

HOSSANNAH ASUNCION
this and that. here, here and here.

JULIE KLAUSNER
Julie Klausner is a comedy writer/performer, podcaster, and author. Her first book, I Don’t Care About Your Band, was released in 2010 from Gotham Books.

In July 2010, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s production company, Gary Sanchez Productions, optioned I Don’t Care About Your Band for a television series to star Lizzy Caplan.

Now, she’s writing a YA Novel called Muses, and hosting a podcast called How Was Your Week, which was recently named one of the best 10 comedy podcasts of the moment by Rolling Stone. Guests on How Was Your Week include Joan Rivers, Patton Oswalt, Sally Kellerman, Paul Scheer, Neko Case, Rachel Dratch, Julie’s Parents, and Jackée.

Julie’s TV writing credits include staff jobs on Best Week Ever with Paul F. Tompkins, on which she has also appeared, and The Big Gay Sketch Show. She’s also written for Robert Smigel’s “TV Funhouse” on SNL, and for comedy legend Joan Rivers on a few different occasions.

Julie’s editorial writing credits include The New York Times, New York Magazine, Videogum, McSweeney’s, Salon, The A.V. Club, Nerve, and The Awl, to which she is a regular contributor. With Natasha Vargas-Cooper, she writes a “Fuck/Marry/Kill” column for The Hairpin.

Julie is also the creator of viral internet shorts including “Welcome To Our House,” “Mommy Time,” “Cat News” and “What’s What.” Her latest webseries, The Cat Whisperer, co-written with Alex Scordelis, debuted on Atom.com in August 2010.

Julie has written and appeared in many shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, including Free To Be Friends, which went on to the 2006 NY International Fringe Festival and “The Chipperton Family Vocal-tainers’ Shooby-Dooby-Dooby Hour,” which was an official selection of the 2005 HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, CO. She also played “Abortion Girl” in Les Freres Corbusier’s Drama Desk Award-nominated production of “Hell House.”

With Jackie Clarke, Julie co-hosted the monthly live variety show OBSESSED with Julie and Jackie, and starred alongside co-creator Rachel Shukert in Wasp Cove, a live episodic soap opera.

Until recently, Julie taught sketch and humor essay writing at the UCB Theater.

The Unlimited Plan

2011-06-07T15:43:00.000-07:00

The Unlimited Plan

Cleopatra’s

110 Meserole Avenue, Brooklyn NY, 11211

June 12 – July 3, 2011

Opening Reception: June 12, 4:00pm - 6:00pm

http://theunlimitedplan.tumblr.com/

New Outfits: Book Signing

2011-06-02T08:27:00.001-07:00

New Outfits: Book Signing

Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff

Sunday June 5, 6-9

Cleopatra’s

110 Meserole, New York

This place gets massive points in my book for not batting an eye when I brought in a white cashmere sweater that was completely splattered with blood. I was amazed by the owner’s care and knowledge of how to take care of a garment. He not only understands the differences between fabrics and their different blends and weights, but labels and their actual garment construction. Sold. He will chat you up: "Do you sweat a lot in this coat?" "Do you wear cologne when you have this on?" "The reason why I will clean it this way is . . ." I feel comfortable taking silk items to them without fear of their being boiled -- I'm looking at you, J Rafa, since you destroyed my Tracey Reese dress.

F is for Fake: The construction of femaleness by the US media, Organized by Amanda Parmer

2011-04-29T06:45:00.000-07:00

F is for Fake: The construction of femaleness by the US media

Becca Albee, Joan Braderman, Emma Hedditch with Laura Mulvey,
Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden, Paper Tiger Television, Elayne Rapping, Martha Rosler
Organized by Amanda Parmer

Cleopatra’s
110 Meserole Avenue, Brooklyn NY, 11211

May 1 – 29, 2011
Opening Reception: May 1st, 6-8pm

It is ironic that today, Feminism, for many men and women, is an issue of the past. In the United States, there is a vague and diffuse sense of equality; that women have the same rights as men, that women earn the same amount (though women are still paid, on average, only 78 percent of what men are paid and the gap is significantly wider for women of color) and that women have equal access to the same jobs (although the Equal Rights Amendment of 1923 is yet to be passed). Politically motivated and propped up by the mass media, stereotypical views of what constitutes the female have become more fragmented, but the ideal has not strayed from the incarnations of the 1960s and 70s that originally spurred the feminist movement. Currently, Feminism’s message has been usurped by the media, shifting the landscape so that where we once had a clear adversary (an inside/outside perspective) this boundary has now been blurred. The tools we had used to speak out, and speak up against constructed female roles, have become false allies and are now being used against us or purportedly in tandem with us. The exhibition includes contemporary projects that look at specific historical representations of women in the media from 1929 and 1975; videos made in the 1980s that take up a similar set of inquires but with media representations contemporaneous with the making of the works themselves; and a publishing project that asks visitors to examine these questions in the present moment.

Becca Albee’s project takes up the life of Joan Lowell as the subject for this work. Addressing the many personas Lowell took on during her lifetime through photographs, charms, video and performance, Albee contextualizes the writing of Lowell’s embellished and fictionalized memoirs, The Cradle of the Deep(1929). The popularity of this text and the scandal that enveloped it will serve as the basis for her Skype performance on May 12th with her father Parker Bishop Albee, a scholar of the author Lincoln Colcord, whose trenchant review led to the demise of Joan Lowell’s budding literary career.

Using Laura Mulvey’s seminal “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975) text as a starting point, Emma Hedditch filmed Mulvey reading the essay, and in the process, deconstructing Hollywood cinema from a feminist perspective. The video is then cut with clips from the films Laura is referencing and will be screened on May 12th with a discussion to follow.

Paper Tiger Television is a video collective that deploys humor and sarcasm to combat the polished narrative of the media, by offering up starting points to question the media constructions that form us. Throughout the course of the exhibition we will be screening three videos from Joan Braderman’s Joan Does Dynasty (1985); Elayne Rapping’s Elayne Rapping on Soap Operas (1985); and Martha Rosler’s Martha Rosler Reads Vogue: Wishing, Dreaming, Winning, Spending (1982).

The pilot press… (Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden) is a D.I.Y. feminist publishing house that provides a non-hierarchical, unedited, and uncensored look at the self-identified feminist community. Visitors are encouraged to print and bind as many copies of their work as they like; in exchange for this free publication service, they are required to leave a single bound copy of their publications in the pilot press… library. In addition they will be hosting two reading groups over the course of the month based on the texts submitted.

Additional Programming:

Sunday, May 8th at 5pm:
Reading group with pilot press… hosted by Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden

Thursday, May 12th at 8pm:
Screening and discussion with Emma Hedditch

Sunday, May 22nd at 5pm:
Reading Group with pilot press… hosted by Court Square (Lisa Williams and Jaime Schwartz) in conjunction with its current exhibition, In Visible Ink, which addresses Hélène Cixous’s concept of écriture féminine and its modern day manifestations.
Court Square: http://www.ctsq.info

Sunday May 29th at 5pm:
Performance by Becca Albee and Parker Bishop Albee

*For the duration of the exhibition, we encourage you to bring your feminist writings to Cleopatra’s to have them published with Pilot Press. For more information, please visit www.contemporaryfeminism.com/pilot_press_min.html.

Satellite presentation of F is for Fake in our new Berlin space.

Saturday May 28th - July 2nd, 2011

Stacy Fisher / Gary Panter

2011-03-16T14:00:00.001-07:00

Opening Sunday, March 20, 4-7pm

Exhibition runs through Sunday, April 24

CLEOPATRA'S
110 Meserole Avenue
Greenpoint, Bk, 11211
info@cleopatras.us

Stacy Fisher:

Gary Panter:

The opening:

SHAPES of THINGS @ Cleopatra's

2011-03-08T10:47:00.000-08:00

SHAPES of THINGS
Join M.Carter for B(A)NO{S} @ Cleopatra's
an evening of FUN w/ scissors

A creative exploration of the iconic quality of something's (or someone's) shape when devoid of line, shade & color (cutting silhouettes out of construction paper).
Thursday, March 10th. 7pm 'til ?
110 Meserole Ave. (btwn Manhattan and Leonard)
B.Y.O.Scissors. We'll provide the snacks!

CLEOPATRA'S

Opening Jan 20th - Solo show Christine Würmell at Cleopatra's Berlin

Jeanette Mundt

Three Films

EyeEclipse, The GlowWorm, The Lamp

Opening celebration at Cleopatra's Greenpoint on 12/21/11, from 7 - 9pm

Cleopatra's is located at: 110 Meserole Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222 For more information please see our website: www.cleopatras.us

Ess Ess is pleased to present readings by Jamieson Webster & Simon Critchley

ESS ESS PRESENTS: ERICA EHRENBERG & DONALD BRECKENRIDGE

Sunkist

Swiss Gallery

Nouvelle Randonnee

LYNNE COOKE. 3 SHOWS. 1993. 1999. 2007. Curated by Montserrat Albores

Nouvelle Randonnee - After Apologies

IRVING FELLER: MONOCHROME DRAWINGS

PRINCESS DRAGON MOM presents RACCOON

The Enemy, Cleopatra's Berlin

Cleopatra's Presents: EYE IN THE SKY - JULY 30-31

JO ANN BEARD & JIBADE-KHALIL HUFFMAN Read new work

DEATH VALLEY

Mark & Kyoko present Amerika, América, Amerique! through July 31st at Cleopatra's Berlin:

Becca Albee, Performance Saturday July 2nd at Cleopatra's Berlin

ESS ESS SUNSET SERIES - Monday June 13th 8PM

The Unlimited Plan

New Outfits: Book Signing

F is for Fake: The construction of femaleness by the US media, Organized by Amanda Parmer

Stacy Fisher / Gary Panter

SHAPES of THINGS @ Cleopatra's

Cleopatra's is located at: 110 Meserole Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222
For more information please see our website: www.cleopatras.us