Title: Glitch
Year: 2018
Length: 02.05
Format: Part of a 3 channel video entitled Beach body
The following is an exercise in attempting to localise my train of thought. Often fragmented and linked in ways that aren’t immediately clear to the spectator, it serves to negotiate and navigate the fruits of my research, my body, my emotions, my subjectivity and my objectivity. Although it seems conceptually naïve at times, I think it’s important to understand the complexity and extent that our technological landscape is being covertly constructed to serve and perpetuate the social and political interests of the hegemony. Particularly in relation to ideas surrounding freedom from the body (planet earth) and freedom from the body (human form) and the push to frame this ‘freedom’ as the ultimate form of liberation.
Thematic tags: Performance, body, landscape, feminism, technology
Title: Sad @ the beach
Year: 2017
Length: 03:00
Format: Digital video diptych
Originally made in response to a home video from the 90’s and walking by an abandoned VHS on the side of the road left in the rain. I was overwhelmingly sad upon both watching the old home video and seeing the VHS all alone in the rain, thinking back to all the nostalgic currency the two things hold. The work comes from a desire to be reconnected with a previous version of self; an obsolete self. The female body contextualises technology within the realms of objectified flesh and contextualises flesh within the realms of objectified technology. Both remain indifferent to the encroaching tide and miserable weather.
Thematic tags: Performance, body, landscape, feminism, technology, sex and sexuality
Predominantly working in moving image and video, Lindsay-Parker aims to examine the ways in which female identity is constructed and represented through shifting technological interfaces. At varying degrees of depth and seriousness, her practice is built around the metaphorical premise that technological objects have the capacity to feel. Lindsay-Parker frequently return to nostalgia as a means to explore empathy, emotions, identity and ultimately, to disrupt a general sense of apathy towards our current techno-social condition.
https://www.circuit.org.nz/artist/lara-lindsay-parker
https://vimeo.com/userlaralp