Video Installation Artist Laura Parnes Gives Public Lecture

Wed, Apr 5
7:30
Free

Through her interrogation of the horror film genre, Brooklyn-based
artist Laura Parnes creates acid-tinted visions of the art world,
fame, and uncomfortable youth. Hollywood Inferno, a work that
premiered at MOMA in 2001, sets Dante's Inferno in suburban New
Jersey where everyone seems willing to sell their souls for
entertainment industry success. In 1999, she collaborated with
similarly gore-entranced artist Sue de Beer on Heidi 2, an
unauthorized sequel to Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy's notorious
reworking of the Swiss Miss story, which was presented in an
exhibition at Deitch Projects. Parnes is currently working on a
loose, multi-channel video adaptation of Kathy Acker's 1984
experimental novel, Blood and Guts in High School.

Parnes has screened, performed, and created installations at over 30
different venues nationally and internationally, including the
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; MOMA, New York; the Whitney Biennial,
New York; the New York Underground Film Festival; Images Festival,
Toronto; Cinematexas, Austin, TX; the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo,
Vitoria and Granada, Spain; and Impakt Festival, the Netherlands.
Parnes received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in 1990, and was Co-
Director of Momenta Art, an alternative space in Williamsburg,
Brooklyn. She's an artist-in-residence at the Montalvo Arts Center in
Saratoga, CA. A screening of Parnes's work will take place at the
Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley in April.

Venue:

San Francisco Art Institute
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco
415.771.7020
http://www.sfai.edu

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