Laura Parnes

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Laura Parnes is a video artist, gallery owner, and professor of video at Bennington College. Parnes is best known for “Heidi 2”, an unauthorized feminist response to “Heidi” (1992), created by Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy. The original video piece "Heidi" has been characterized by many video art aficionados as the formal beginnings of video art and spawned an entire genre of re-interpreters. Laura Parnes’ work is ostensibly an assertion of the feminist perspective into this interpretive genre.