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PAST EXHIBITION
 FLOAT: FIELD OF DREAMS CURATED BY CLEOPATRA'S AUGUST 7, 21 / 1-5PM AUGUST 12, 13, 14 / 12-8PM (RAIN OR SHINE) FREE ADMISSION DUE TO HURRICANE IRENE THE FLOAT PROGRAM ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR AUGUST 28TH WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR A FUTURE DATE. INITIATED IN 2003, FLOAT IS SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK'S BIENNIAL SERIES OF EPHEMERAL AND INTERACTIVE ARTWORKS AND PERFORMANCES. WITH ARTISTS: Martin Soto Climent, MGM Grand, Stephen Lichty, Erica Magrey, Rachel Mason, Baker Overstreet, Georgia Sagri, Chris Verene: The Self- Esteem Salon with Jessica Grable, "The Self-Preservation Series", J. Patrick Walsh III, Geo Wyeth, Jules Gimbrone and more! Socrates Sculpture Park is pleased to announce the 2011 edition of FLOAT, the 5th biennial series of ephemeral and interactive art- works and musical performances. Titled Field of Dreams, the 2011 installment will be guest curated by Cleopatra's and will feature more than ten artists and artist collaborators who are creating site-specific work for installation throughout the Park. FLOAT: Field of Dreams will take place from 1-5pm every Sunday in August (7, 14, 21, and 28), as well asas well as on Friday, August 12 and Saturday, August 13. The series will be free and open to the public and all performances will be held rain or shine (For the latest weather updates, follow www.twitter.com/sspweatherwatch). A complete schedule is listed below. Cleopatra's was co-founded by Bridget K. Finn, Bridget Donahue, Erin Somerville, and Kate McNamara in June of 2008. Cleopatra's works collaboratively with artists, curators, writers, designers and musicians on projects that create or further connections between artists' communities, studios, galleries and institutions. The aim of Cleopatra's is to advance ideas informed by both individual and collective creative perspectives, and to disseminate them among a broad and diverse audience. Cleopatra's non- commercial projects are realized in a storefront gallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and also take form as off-site, public programs, events and print publications. 2011 FLOAT SCHEDULE AUGUST 7 1PM Jar Jar Stinky & Patchez present ZINE BRUNCH! Artists will make magazines and bring them in for trade or donation, presented by Jory Rabinovitz and Patrick Walsh 3PM Geo Wyeth and Jules Gimbrone with Karel Van Beekom and Reenat Pinchas Crude Imitation is a performance meditation on the truths that happen in the moment to moment clamoring for the real thing. Gimbrone's composed musical sets based on the life of Joan of Arc are grafted onto a new context of instruments and textures. Every Thing On Stage tries to be the body and fails in Wyeth's Arguments and Meditations for Saxophone and Voice. Two people share a flute. Some Person tells a story and all the Other Things On Stage read lips. A deaf cello and a mute saxophone. Thank you for not listening and shouting I LOVE YOU like you know me all up in my face. 4PM Baker Overstreet Overstreet will be performing under his stage name, June, in a musical homage to the moon. In front of a dazzling backdrop that transports one to the heavens, he will be joined by a small rag tag gang of supporting players to form what Overstreet refers to as a "junkyard band". 5PM J. Patrick Walsh III For this performance, Walsh has cast a backpack from his high school years in aluminum, and plans to drive a steamroller over the bag, forcing the object into the earth at Socrates sculpture park. Inspired by the park's former title as a landfill, Walsh's performance creates a setting in which heavy machinery interacts with memory to produce an object set for erasure. AUGUST 12, 13 & 14 Active performance hours of The Self-Esteem Salon are 12-8PM Chris Verene: The Self-Esteem Salon with Jessica Grable, "The Self-Preservation Series" New York artist Chris Verene presents a new installation of his ongoing, live-action performance artwork cycle, The Self-Esteem Salon, established in 1996. For Socrates Sculpture Park, Verene teams up with friend, performance artist and sculptor, Jessica Grable, to create the largest version of the performance ever staged entitled The Self-Esteem Salon with Jessica Grable: The Self-Preservation Series. Verene and Grable are working together to build an ensemble of plant life and costumes emphasizing the human need for self-preservation, a custom topiary garden made from cultivated invasive plant species, a 40-foot yurt sanctuary to help strangers/participants make a sincere and lasting change in their lives. The project is something like a day spa, a short time spent in therapy that will have positive results on one's personal life. The artist and his staff of "Group Facilitators" welcome visitors, clients and audience members throughout the duration of the piece, offering a variety of public and private experiences including cognitive therapy, massage (touch and non-touch), costume construction, audio therapy, and other activities that the artist has found to raise clients' self-esteem over the past thirteen years of practice. Please visit Chrisverene.com to book an appointment. AUGUST 21 1PM PICNIC hosted by Paper Monument Bring your blankets and chairs and enjoy a Picnic with Paper Monument. 3PM MGM Grand MGM Grand will perform Oneness: Making It With Love. MGM Grand is a dance-centered art group with members Jmy Leary, Piage Martin and Biba Bell. WONK! WONK! 5PM Rachel Mason Mason will sing to and dance with Socrates' figurative sculptures by John Ahearn. Mason has been described as "Marvelously Strange" by Jerry Saltz and "Carol King meets Alice Cooper" by Chris Carlone (aka Borts Minorts). Sunset Stephen Lichty Arranged by Lichty, Let Me Out of Here will take place in and around the Park. PROGRAM ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR AUGUST 28TH WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR A FUTURE DATE DUE TO HURRICANE IRENE... 1PM Erica Magrey Magrey will present Protest Geometry - signs, shapes, songs, and gestures that address the balance of intention and investment, and expectation and result. Using as its starting point the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp Songbook, the performance addresses the romantic notions of protest and heroism and attempts to separate these notions from specific causes, instead focusing on their absence. The borrowed causes from the songbook and the mythology of the protest movement supplant the truly personal and resonant beliefs of each participant, which remain inarticulate. Enacted by Christine Connor, Emily M. Harris, Anya Liftig, Lia Lowenthal, Erica Magrey, Rachael Morrison, Katie Urban, and Genevieve White. 3PM Georgia Sagri Sagri worked with an American soldier on a monologue that she will learn by heart and speak aloud. 5PM Martin Soto Climent Forthcoming text by Samara Davis Davis writes about contemporary art and dance. She received her Master's Degree in Performance Studies at NYU and will be the curatorial fellow at The Kitchen this fall. In addition to her writing, she is the founding member of the Kate Bush Dance Troupe. MORE INFORMATION For press inquiries please contact Ellen Staller at 718-956-1819 x12 or es@socratessculpturepark.org SUPPORTERS This exhibition is made possible by the dedication and support of our board of directors, friends and volunteers, and by the generosity of: Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Charina Endowment Fund, Mark di Suvero, Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation, Agnes Gund, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation. Additional support has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, and by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, as state agency, and the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs. Special thanks to the City of New York, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Queens Borough President Helen M. Marshall, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, Councilmembers Jimmy Van Bramer and Peter F. Vallone Jr., and the Department of Parks & Recreation, Commissioner Adrian Benepe. 
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