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Media Lecture: Laura Parnes
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 03/12/2008 - 12:26pm.
Lecture | Media
Media Lecture
Laura Parnes
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
VAF Performance Space
Lecture/Talk: 3:30-5:00 PM
Laura Parnes videos and installations are informed by traditions and genres in both narrative film and video art, and seek to blur the lines between conventions of story telling and experimentation. She has screened and exhibited her work widely in the US and internationally, including the Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand; the Institute for Contemporary Art /P.S. 1 Museum, NY; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Galizia, Spain; Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; the Brooklyn Museum, NY; and on PBS and Spanish Television. Her work has been featured in solo shows at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LA; Participant Inc., NY; Deitch Projects, NY; and in a two-person screening at The Museum of Modern Art, NY. She has been awarded residencies at the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs at the Montalvo Arts Center, the Wexner Center, Harvestworks, and others. In 2005 she received a Finishing Funds grant from the Experimental Television Center. Her most recent work Blood and Guts in High School was named in the Village Voice as a top ten experimental film/video for 2005. She has taught at New York University and The New School. BFA, Tyler School of Art. She joined Bennington faculty in fall of 2004. Born in Buffalo, New York, 5/11/68. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
For more press, a full CV, video clips of work, still images, etc., please go to: http://www.lauraparnes.com
Video Data Bank distributes Parnes' work in the U.S. Go to: http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?PARNESL to watch more clips of Parnes' work.
(From Wikipedia...) Laura Parnes is a video artist, gallery owner, and professor of video at Bennington College. Parnes is best known for Heidi 2 , an unauthorized feminist response to Heidi (1992), created by Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy. The original video piece "Heidi" has been characterized by many video art aficionados as the formal beginnings of video art and spawned an entire genre of re-interpreters. Laura Parnes work is ostensibly an assertion of the feminist perspective into this interpretive genre.
"Laura Parnes' work blurs the boundaries that define cinema and video art by using cinematic references as elements of installations. Echoing the staging of her own productions, Parnes requires that the audience physically enter the production set in order to participate in this work. Space becomes indeterminate, reality tightly nested in layers of art, popular culture and experience. Knitting together references as diverse as Guy Debord and Julia Kristeva with South Park, or art criticism with Forrest Gump, a world is created that nears a state of total schizophrenia while still retaining narrative coherence. Central to the work is the nature of transgression in an age where everything is caught in complex layers of mediation. In the relative isolation of the living room, super-social events appear on the news and on such TV shows as Survivor, Blind Date, Boot Camp, Jerry Springer, as well as on the latest releases from the corner video store. In this atmosphere, individual actual experience is suspect as fabrication and transgression loses necessary perspective."
-Video Viewpoints: New Work (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2001)