Kickstarter for Magic Thinking
A huge thank you to all who contributed and made the Magic Thinking Kickstarter such a success. Contributors include: Michelle Handelman, Liselot van der Heijden, Colleen Keegan, Marcia Basset, Christen Diane Clifford, Tom Cole, Nicholas Croft, Marianna Ellenberg, Johanna Fateman, Erik Levine, Jen Liu, Milton Parnes, David Shaw, Enat Sidi, Jude Tallichet, Catherine Taylor, Lauren Wittels, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Michael Waugh, Seagull Hair Salon, Michelle Leftheris, Patty Chang, Jackie Goss, Chris Sullivan, Philip Stanton, Bari Pearlman, Adam Parnes, Christian Perez, Elisabeth Subrin, Jennifer Reeder, Kara Hammond, Justine Kurland, Hal Hartley, Quentin Chiappetta, Amanda Trager, Shelley Marlow, Jane Harris, Barry Hoggard and James Wagner, Karina Skvirsky, eteam, Scott Propeack, Siobhan Liddell, Linda Parnes, Emma Rose Milligan, Rachel Lowther, Rachel Law & McKenzie Wark, Cecelia Condit, Stephanie Barber, Cecilia Dougherty, Ariel Kavoussi, Aline Mare, Anthony Banua-Simon, Matthew Papa, Victoria Keddie, Elise McCave, Howard Covitz, Eric Heist, Lisa Kirk, Kazumi Tanaka, E.V. Day, Marsha Pels, Claudia Joskowicz, Mary Patierno, Gibson Frazier, Adam Bell, Becca Albee, Linda Nagaoka, Ben Coonley, Furen Dai, Challiss McDonough, M M Lum, Stephanie Vella, Alison Nguyen, Scott Macaulay, Leslie Brack, Liz Deschenes, Coco Fusco, Sara Reisman, Robert Boyd, Kirsten Hassenfeld, Matt Wolf, Momoyo Torimitsu, Hedi el Kholti, Jongsma + O'Neill, Ruth Kahn, Every Ocean Hughes, Veronica Gonzalez Peña, Calvin Reid, Ed Halter, Matthew Weinstein, R.H. Quaytman, Jim Finn, Jody Culkin, David Dominique, Kristin Lucas, Jonathan David Smyth, Christopher Wilcha, Alissa Bennett, Wendy Vogel, MK Guth, Joan Linder, Abina Manning, Jill H. Casid, Peter Burr, Bang Geul Han, Ellen F Salpeter, Tianyi Zhang, Anoka Faruqee, Jenn Dierdorf, Esther Drill, Ana Wolovick, Robert Ransick, Heidi Schlatter, Steve Reinke, Robert Seng, Алексей Ковалёв, Alex Stevens, Janey, Phyllis Baldino, Allen Weiner, Liza McLaughlin, Laura Larson, Erik Moskowitz, Natalie Moore, J Tolentino & Stosh Fila/Pigpen, Tom Colley, Elke Lehmann, Thu Nguyen, Peggy Ahwesh, Rafael Sånchez, Shane McCarthy, A.L. Steiner, Cat Tyc, Carolyn Lambert, Chelsea Spengemann, David B Frye, Daniel Gibbons, Sam Green, Yusheng Jiang, Jennifer Dalton, Patty Suarez, Anna Prokop, Nicole Eisenman, Janet Biggs, Tommy Nguyen, Margo Margolas, Lucas Blalock, Robin Graubard, Jennie Livingston, Amelia Saul, Shelly Silver, Kerry Gaertner Gerbracht, JD Samson, Jeff Preiss, Tamara Gayer, Chloe Bass, Deborah Stratman, Zachary Vanes, Sur Rodney Sur, JP Cohen, Amy Jenkins, Nicola Tyson, Jiuxun Jin, Guy Richards Smit, Amy Weil, Lorenzo De Los Angeles, Randall Heath, Natasha Chuk, Torsten Zenas Burns, Amy Sillman, Ann Pibal, Dinny Shaw, Cook Shaw, Elizabeth Barnes, Jonathan Essa, Aric Parnes, Cheryl Donegan, Maura Jasper, Elaine Angelopoulos, Jeanette Spicer, Thalia Feilen, Mark Alice Durant, Alice O'Malley, Barbara Ferguson, Mike Monteiro, Tara Sansone, Craig Kalpakjian, Mary Billyou, Jim Christensen, Rory Mulligan, Matthew D Gantt, Kathleen Goncharov, Lynne Sachs and Lizzie Olesker, Natalie Zaman, Pamela Lins, Jeffrey Akers, Alexandro Segade, Morgan Mueller,Tatiana Kronberg, Jeffrey Walkowiak, Ru Marshall, Bailey Georges, Tooraj Khamenehzadeh, Darrin Martin, Gail Thacker, Andrea Gibbons, Marina Zurkow, Miguel Venturra, Barbara Pollack, Lia Gangitano, David Schlaegel, Jiwon Choi, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Abigail Simon, Elizabeth Senja Spackman, David Everitt Howe and Mari Spirito
20 Years PARTICIPANT Benefit Performance
Please come out and celebrate 20 years of PARTICIPANT INC. on Monday, June 26, at the legendary SoB’s. Tickets start at $150, and the lineup is fantastic!
For 20 years, PARTICIPANT INC has had a unique, radical program supporting highly influential artists. Let’s all come out and support and celebrate!
See you there!
Laura
Pathetic Happening
PATHETIC HAPPENING is a read and performed version of the entirety of Pathetic Literature (edited by Eileen Myles) from Grove Press, a nearly 700 page volume of poets and fiction writers and playwrights and nonfiction from all over the world, and all eras. This event — conceived and curated by Tom Cole and Eileen Myles with ten guest curators: queer theorist Jack Halberstam, performer and poet Ama Birch, poet and curator Mary Reilly, the indelible poet Will Farris, British poet and memoirist Sophie Robinson, performer and curator Lucy Sexton, poet and birdist Marcella Durand, lead singer of Speedy Ortiz and poet Sadie Dupuis and dance curator Sangeeta Yesley along with choreographer Yoshiko Chuma — is an afternoon and evening devoted to enacting literature in all its dimensionality. I’ll be reading Moyra Davey’s essay early in the day.
“Is There Gender Equality in the Digital Art World?” Niio Editorial, by Roxanne Vardi and Pau Waelder
“Is There Gender Equality in the Digital Art World?”
A conversation with Dagmar Schürrer, Snow Yunxue Fu, Marina Zurkow, Claudia Larcher, Alexandra Crouwers, Tamiko Thiel, Claudia Hart, Sasha Stiles, Yuge Zhou, and Chun Hua Catherine Dong.
The brilliant Marina Zurkow mentions Laura in Niio Editorial.
"The number of brilliant, inspiring feminist video artists is staggering. Please don’t forget pioneers Adrian Piper, Yoko Ono, Howardena Pindell, Shigeko Kubota, and the following waves of the likes of Laura Parnes, Elisabeth Subrin, Mika Rottenberg, tackling very different aspects of life through a feminist lens."
New Yorkers hailed the prosecution last night “Wonderful”.
While out celebrating with video art legends Cecilia Dougherty and Phyllis Baldino on the evening Trump was indicted for sexual abuse, we were interviewed by Karin Eriksson for Dagens Nyheter.
Artists & Allies V
online exhibition
participating artists include:
Pola Sieverding, ornella Fieres, Annabel Daou, Carol Szymanski, Mischa Leinkauf, Michelle Handelman, Discoteca Flaming Star, Alex Mcquilkin, Adam Broomberg, Tony Orrico, Jamie Diamond, Itziar Barrio, Barbara Gundlach, Laura Parnes, Sarah Anderson, Jaša Alison Nguyen, Melinda Jean Myers, Laila Franklin, Kate Vincek, David Hurlin, Shelley Marlow
Signs and Symbols
249 East Houston Street
Jim Fletcher on Screen (Blood and Guts in High School and Tour Without End)
Thrilled to be part of this celebration of the brilliant actor Jim Fletcher at Anthology Film Archives. See link for tickets. “His screen appearances encompass video experiments by theater artists such as Richard Maxwell and Tim Etchells (of U.K. theater group Forced Entertainment), documentaries like Shaun Irons's STANDING BY: GATZ BACKSTAGE, and collaborations with film and video artists including Laura Parnes, Ellen Cantor, Tony Oursler, and Zoe Beloff. Presented in conjunction with special screenings of two of Fletcher’s most recent moving-image projects – New Red Order’s NEVER SETTLE: THE PROGRAM and Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer, and Anton Vidokle’s A I O U – this film series further reveals Fletcher’s Venn-diagram-like ability to draw together different constellations of artists, communities, and creative approaches.”
Blood and Guts in High School screens June 12 at 5:30. Tour Without End screens at June 12 at 7:30
January 2022
Laura Parnes Interview on “The Gigging Economy” for Filmmaker Magazine
Elisabeth Subrin talks to fellow artist and filmmaker Laura Parnes about her recently completed multi-format doc/fiction epic, Tour Without End.
November 2021
Laura Parnes Interview and Feature for The Broadcast
Laura gives an interview to The Broadcast from inside her New York studio, discussing Tour Without End in addition to her ongoing work with counterculture and rebellion.
November 12, 2021
Tour Without End Screening and Live Event at Pioneer Works
In tandem with Laura Parnes’s exhibition Tour Without End (2014-2019), Pioneer Works is very pleased to present a screening of the eponymous film with intermissions of performance by The Blow (Melissa Dyne and Khaela Maricich), Macy Rodman (with Matthew McAuley of BB TAY VEE), and CRICKETS (JD Samson, Michael O’Neill, Roddy Bottum), some of whom are featured in the film, which casts real-life musicians, artists, and actors as bands on tour.
September 2021
Tour Without End featured by Creative Capital
Alex Teplitzky interviews Laura about artist run spaces and Tour Without End.
February 2021
Interview in Femex Film Archive
Aliya Hunter interviews Laura about Riot Grrrl, Trump, Consumerism, Outsiders and Rave Culture.
November 2021
ArtForum Review of Pioneer Works Exhibition
October 26, 2021
Brooklyn Vegan Coverage
Laura’s 2021 Tour Without End exhibition at Pioneer Works gets some love from Brooklyn Vegan.
September 2021
Interview by Chris Kraus for The Broadcast
Artist Laura Parnes and writer Chris Kraus talk gentrification, reality vs. fiction, and the collective, filmic portrait that is Parnes’s Tour Without End.
Sept. - Nov. 2021
Tour Without End Exhibited in Custom Installation at Pioneer Works, New York
Tour Without End, a film by Laura Parnes, screened inside a custom installation by the artist at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, New York. The exhibition also included live events with some of the artists and friends from the film.
January 17-20, 2021
Tour Without End Multimedia Installation at Human Resources, Los Angeles
Including performances by Rachel Mason and Brontez Purell, as well as a Q&A with Laura Parnes and Chris Kraus.
September 12, 2020
Tour Without End screens at THAT ONE Film Festival
Laura screens her film, Tour Without End at THAT ONE Film Festival, where she is also a juror.
October 2019
Laura presents Tour Without End at the Creative Capital Artist Retreat
July 2019
Video Data Bank asks… Laura Parnes
Laura answers a Q&A with Emily Eddy for Video Data Bank.
September 3, 2019-January 5, 2020
Tour Without End Multimedia Installation at Burchfield Penny Arts Center
April 2019
Laura Contributes to ‘Remembering Barbara Hammer’ for Creative Capital
April 2019
Laura is the recipient of a Macdowell Award, in the category of Interdisciplinary Artists.
September 2018
“Wild Gone Girls” by McKenzie Wark for E-Flux Journal #93
McKenzie Wark’s essay on post-capitalism, agency, revolution, etc. featuring the work of Laura Parnes, Kathy Acker, Aline Mare and more.
July 2018
Laura’s essay on The Hoosac Institute
Laura writes about The Mary Hartman show and her own project, County Down.