Interview with:Rey Parla [reyparla]
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 | What do you do? How do you define yourself as an artist? Rey Parla was born in Miami and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He produces interdisciplinary works in film, video, photography, installation, performance, and writing. |
| Your biography in four lines. Rey studied the classical experimental cinematic avant-garde with strong influences from Dziga Vertov, Tony Conrad, Jean-Luc Godard, Bruce Conner, Guy Debord, Doris Wishman, Chris Marker, Stan Brakhage and Jose Antonio Sistiaga. |
| Do you upload your work to the web? If so, where could we see it? http://www.elsewherecommunities.blogspot.com |
| How is an idea born? For you, what is inspiration? Ideas are everywhere and are born by association of thoughts. Inspiration is a surprise, an introduction to something new. |
| What is art? Anything is possible. |
| Must an artist reinvent him/herself everyday? Adaptation is needed for translation into the everyday invention. |
| Which artists do you admire and how do they influence your work? After being inspired by a visit to his brother’s Miami Beach painting studio, late in 1993, he created a series of experimental hand-painted mixed media films combining scratched motion pictures he photographed and blended with acrylic paint, producing a rapid-eye effect group of images as stop-motion collage. www.joseparla.com
He concentrates on a multiplicity of ideas and subjects of interest for inspiration like: primitive cave paintings and tribal drawings, writing systems, language, psychology, the act of seeing, poetry, visual phenomena, history, film theory, and mythology.
Rey studied the classical experimental cinematic avant-garde with strong influences from Dziga Vertov, Tony Conrad, Jean-Luc Godard, Bruce Conner, Guy Debord, Doris Wishman, Chris Marker, Stan Brakhage and Jose Antonio Sistiaga.
His works have screened on television and online as well as at the Miami International Film Festival, the Dorsch Gallery, the Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Lombard-Freid Projects, the Alliance Cinema’s Anti Film Festival, the Iota Center, Festival of Alternative Cuban Cinema, IV Festival Internacional de Arte Sonoro: Habitat Sonico, shown at the ExTeresa Arte Actual National Conservatory of Music | MUCA-ROMA in Mexico, the Frost Art Museum, and in various venues and galleries in Miami, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Atlanta and Beijing.
He has a B.A. in English Literature and Film from Florida International University. |
| What do you think about public funding for the arts? It's doing well, but I don't think it's big enough. There are many talented struggling artists in the United States that need a push towards greatness. |
| Is art necessary? Completely. |
| In art, there is no guide. How do you know what the next step is? When you feel it in your gut and you have no other choice but to produce and create art. |
| How do you feel about the fact that the pieces exhibited in contemporary art museums are often of artists already deceased? I don't mind really. One of my favorite artists is Roberto Matta, I don't see his works in museums often enough.
I am sure there curated shows mixing both the deceased and the living in contemporary arts. I would hope so. |
| What role have the figures of art dealer, gallery owners, representatives, and intermediaries in general played in your career? I have had the pleasure of many several art dealers, gallery owners and other professionals in the field who have been instrumental in developing and supporting several projects. |
| Which of your jobs or tasks do you most enjoy? Creating art. |
| Do you personally collect any items? Paintings and other artwork. Books. |
| Which websites do you frequently visit? http://www.joseparla.com
http://www.elsewherecommunities.blogspot.com
http://www.honeyee.com/ |
| What advice would you give to those just beginning? Never give up. Anything is possible. |
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