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Laura Parnes

00:14:38

Collection: Compilations , Single Artist Compilations

Tags: Feminism, Found Footage, Sexuality, Television, Youth/Childhood

Performance, Laura Parnes

This collection highlights three works from Parnes’s 1990s-era, revealing the artist’s innovative use of appropriation and experimental film techniques to comment on the aesthetics and politics of popular culture. The films embody a decade marked by the rise of reality TV, online chat rooms, violent video games, MTV, and celebrity culture. With mordant wit, the artist deploys and scrambles these sources in non-linear narratives that feel like you’ve entered a k-hole of angsty youth. 

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Laura Parnes

Ladies, There is a Space You Can’t Go

1995| 00:05:50

Ladies, There is a Space You Can’t Go, Laura Parnes

Screened in the 1997 Whitney Biennial, the video Ladies, There's a Space You Can't Go is both a deconstruction and a distortion of an episode of Sally Jesse Raphael titled My Daughter Dresses Like A…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Feminism, Found Footage, Television, Youth/Childhood

Laura Parnes

Performance

1995| 00:04:04

Performance, Laura Parnes

The images are derived from found footage of an 8th grade talent show and are combined with a list of gender-specific transformative sexual memories from the age of 4-18. These thirteen-year-old…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Feminism, Found Footage, Performance, Sexuality, Youth/Childhood

Laura Parnes

Talent Show

1996| 00:04:44

Talent Show, Laura Parnes

Talent Show satirizes music videos, while exploring sexual development in the age of the spectacle. The images in Talent Show are from the same found footage as Performance. The young boys lip-synch…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Found Footage, Music, Performance, Sexuality, Youth/Childhood

Exhibitions + Festivals

New York Underground Film Festival, 2000 

Video Library, David Zwirner, New York, 1998 

Spoonful of Sugar, Rutgers University, New York, 1998 

Video Room Video Festival, Brooklyn, NY, 1998 

The Images Festival, Toronto, Canada, 1998 

Current Undercurrent Working in Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1997 

The Best of New York Shorts Expo, Knitting Factory, New York, 1997 

Video Tensions, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1997 

Monitor, The City Gallery of Wellington, New Zealand, 1997 

Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand, 1997

Bronwyn Keenan, New York, 1997