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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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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. The space of these works 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 - even while 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, we view super-social events on the news and on TV shows like 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.
Laura Parnes lives and works in New York City. She has shown her videos and installations and performed at numerous places including: The Museum of Modern Art; NYC; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Threadwaxing Space, NYC; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, L.A.; The Institute for Contemporary Art / P.S. 1 Museum, NYC; Deitch Projects, NYC; and The 1997 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC. She is also a curator and co-founder (along with Eric Heist) of Momenta Art, an alternative space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York.
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