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Fall and Rebound: Le Petit Versailles on Community, Queer Memory, and the Future of a Garden

Recorded during Entangled Garden | New York Experimental Arts Festival 2026, this conversation brings together Peter Cramer, Jack Waters, and Jason Llaguno to reflect on the history of Le Petit Versailles, artist-run space, queer cultural memory, community, stewardship, and what it means to sustain a garden through decades of change.

The full video and edited transcript are now available through STRATUM Journal.

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From the history of Le Petit Versailles to questions of queer memory, stewardship, community, and renewal, Peter Cramer, Jack Waters, and Jason Llaguno reflect on three decades of sustaining an artist-run garden on New York’s Lower East Side.

Published by STRATUM Journal / ELSEHERE International Arts Nexus

Global Artist Opportunities | October 2026

A selected roundup of current international residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls for artists. We are prioritizing opportunities with strong institutional support, meaningful funding, or clear professional value.

HIAP — Learning Materials International Artist in Residence 2027

Helsinki, Finland

Deadline: October 26, 2026, 3:00 PM GMT+2

Open to international artists and arts practitioners based outside Finland whose work engages socially engaged, process-oriented, and material-driven practices.

Muriel Louveau is a French composer, performance artist and vocalist from Brittany. She describes her work as “medieval contemporary,” drawing inspiration from ancient and cross-cultural musical traditions. Through extended vocal techniques and an invented language, she creates a unique sonic vocabulary where voice, poetry and imagination converge. Her interdisciplinary practice spans music, theater, poetry and performance, exploring the voice as a space between past and present, language and abstraction. She has presented her work internationally in Europe and the United States at venues and festivals including BAM’s Next Wave Festival, National Sawdust, Le Poisson Rouge, Galapagos Art Space, The Flea Theater, Artpark, and Peabody Conservatory in the United States, as well as Lille3000 (France), SKIF Festival (Russia), and French Spring Festival (Latvia). She was an Artist-in-Residence at Artpark (2022–2023) and a guest artist in residence at the Peabody Institute’s Dance Department (2025). Alongside her artistic work, Louveau leads vocal workshops…

I LIVE TO PERFORM AND PERFORM TO LIVE, SPREADING THE YOGA LOVE!

Amazing Amy: Eccentric Yoga Contortion Dance Entertainer, offers advanced yoga feats of flexibility, despite injuries all over her body: torn rotator cuffs in both shoulders, a disintegrated spinal disc and 2 hip replacements! At 71, she presents special theme- and character-based acts that challenge ageism and gender role stereotypes and she flexibly freestyles to any genre of music live or recorded. She is a testimony to the benefits of an organic vegetarian diet, daily exercise and a healthy lifestyle. Please invite her to SPREAD THE YOGA LOVE at your event: amyharlib@gmail.com, https://www.instagram.com/amyharlib/, https://www.reverbnation.com/amazingamycontortionistuniqueyogadancer

Eruption of Consciousness

Series: Life Is a Festival

Eruption of Consciousness explores the invisible landscape of the human mind through layered gestures, energetic colors, and rhythmic movement. Rather than depicting recognizable forms, the painting invites viewers into a space where memory, emotion, conflict, and celebration coexist.

Hidden forms emerge and disappear according to the viewer's perception, making the work an active dialogue between the painting and the observer. As part of the Life Is a Festival series, it suggests that human existence is an ever-changing celebration of contradictions, where creation, destruction, memory, and hope continuously reshape one another.

Acrylic on Canvas

Artist: Gautam Pal