 Laura Parnes’s Blood and Guts in High School
Thursday, September 29, 6:00 p.m.
Gene Siskel Film Center
(164 N. State St./312.846.2600)
Laura Parnes in person!
Laura Parnes's bracingly inventive, stylized films and videos operate at the intersection of narrative film and video art. This evening, Parnes will present her acclaimed feature, Blood and Guts in High School (2004-06). Distilled from Kathy Acker's subversive feminist novel of the same title, the film interweaves events surrounding the book’s publication—the Jonestown Massacre, Three Mile Island, the rise of Reagan Republicanism, and the Moral Majority—with interludes from the short, violent life of its preteen protagonist, Janie Smith. Parnes will also screen episodes from her new web series, County Down (ongoing). Building on the darkly comic spirit of Blood and Guts, County Down is set in a lavish gated community where parents suddenly prey upon their children. Copresented by the Video Data Bank. Laura Parnes, 2009-11, USA, multiple formats, ca. 75 min plus discussion.
Artist LAURA PARNES (b. 1968, Buffalo, New York) has screened and exhibited her work widely in the United States and internationally, including Light Industry, New York, NY; Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland; Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; the Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand; the Institute for Contemporary Art /P.S. 1 Museum, New York, NY; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Galizia, Vigo, Spain; Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL; the Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY; and on PBS and Spanish Television. Her work has been featured in solo shows at Alma Enterprises, London; Locust Projects, Miami, FL; Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles; Participant Inc, New York, NY; Deitch Projects, New York, NY; and in a two-person screening at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. She is currently a Faculty Lecturer in the graduate department at Yale University School.
CATE is organized by the School of the Art Instituteof Chicago's Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation in collaboration with the Gene Siskel Film Center and the Video Data Bank.
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UPCOMING PROGRAMS:
10/6 — Landscape as Archive (Lee Anne Schmitt and Bill Brown in person!)
10/13 — Steina! (Steina Vasulka in person!)
10/20 — Rebecca Meyers: blue mantle (Rebecca Meyers in person!)
10/27 — Luke Fowler: A Grammar For Listening (Luke Fowler in person!)
11/3 — Gregory Markopoulos: Eniaios II
11/10 — Nicolas Provost: Long Live the New Flesh (Nicolas Provost in person!)
11/17 — The Films of Amar Kanwar (Amar Kanwar in person!)
LOCATION AND TICKETS
Programs take place Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. at the Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State St.), unless otherwise noted.
CATE is FREE to SAIC students with a valid student ID. Tickets are $11 for the general public, $6 for Film Center members, $7 for students, and $4 for SAIC faculty and staff and Art Institute of Chicago staff.
Any person with a disability who would like to request an accommodation for this program should contact the Disability and Learning Resource Center at dlrc@saic.edu or 312.499.4278 as soon as possible to allow adequate time to make proper arrangements.
About the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
A leader in educating artists, designers, and scholars since 1866, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) offers nationally accredited undergraduate, graduate, and post-baccalaureate programs to nearly 3,200 students from across the globe. Located in the heart of Chicago, SAIC's educational philosophy is built upon a multidisciplinary approach to art and design, giving students unparalleled opportunities to develop their creative and critical abilities, while working with renowned faculty who include many of the leading practitioners in their fields. SAIC's resources include the Art Institute of Chicago and its new Modern Wing; numerous special collections and programming venues provide students with exceptional exhibitions, screenings, lectures, and performances. For more information, please visit www.saic.edu. |
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