Interview with Agosto Machado, November 2, 2018

 This is the first of a series of interviews Ela Troyano and I did of Agosto in 2018.

As I did not have video of this and only audio I married the audio to two series of slides I shot of Agosto in 2003 and 2011 https://youtu.be/5WEOPw7Mz9Y

CHEET CHAT SEIS WITH CARMELITA TROPICANA 1985 AT CLUB CHANDALIER

 I recently came across this video of the 1985 show at Club Chandalier (sic) featuring many of the 1980’s East Village Luminaries on Archives.org. Here is a link https://archive.org/details/llparnes001

QUEER TURF, 1991, documents the 1991 Gay Pride March in NYC, shot with an intervalometer... see it on Facebook

 https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18K7KmQByP/

11>12 (working title Branded) Video 75 min., world premier at MODERN MONDAYS, The Museum of Modern Art, N.Y., April 27, 7pm

 

https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/market/frieze-los-angeles-2026-best-booths-1234774850/marley-freeman-and-textile-artifacts-at-parker-gallery/

 

DOLLWAY TO HEAVEN, (1983/87) one of my “Photo-Chandaliers” to be shown at Frieze LA opening Feb. 27, 2026

11>12, 2025 (my new documentary) World Premiere at New York's Museum of Modern Art's MODERN MONDAYS, Monday, April 27, 2026 at 7pm

                                  11>12, 2025

In June, 1995 my old friend Master C invited me to San Francisco to document the commitment ceremony he and his partner Daddy G had planned for their 12th anniversary.  Daddy G requested to be branded with their lucky number 11.  11>12 documents the branding ceremony, and the events that followed and offers a view of the couples’ unique lifestyle.  Edited in 2025, it was shot with minimum light.  Technological advances have made the previously overly dark footage viewable.  In light of the often explicit nature of the material, the participants have largely requested to remain anonymous. Video, 75 min.

Uzi at Frieze L.A. February 2026. https://www.instagram.com/p/DRSHUYsDmGX/

 

Interview with Agosto Machado

 

https://youtu.be/q4GdQU-H3QM

https://youtu.be/q4GdQU-H3QM?si=PoDEg_cuYTK1QP2o

MY GAY PRIDE 1994

https://youtu.be/1a0VSO443hg

My Gay Pride 1994 documents the first Drag March featuring Hedda Lettuce, the march to Central Park and the rally commemorating the 25th anniversary of The Stonewall Rebellion, featuring Jimmy Sommerville and Liza Minelli and finally the dance on the U.S.S. Intrepid 

https://youtu.be/1a0VSO443hg

CHEET CHAT WITH CARMELITA at Club Chandalier, November 1985

 

https://archive.org/details/llparnes001

https://archive.org/details/llparnes001     

To view the tape hit link above

June 4, 2025 at MoMA

QUEER AND UNCENSORED AT MoMA

 https://silverscreenoasis.com/oasis3/viewtopic.php?p=217991#p217991

Rumour has it my GIRLS CANT HELP IT 1986 and MY GAY PRIDE 1994 (which has only been shown once before on GCN) are part of this monumental event

Cherry Grove SHED-stallation, Video in my shed 6/11 and 6/12, 2022

  

                              SHED-stallation 

                              Video in my shed.

                                    Uzi Parnes

             Saturday, June 11 & Sunday, June12

                                 12-2pm

                                  In Memoriam

            Bill Ness, 1959-2019, 108 Green Walk

            (A.K.A. Just Trash, Goldie, Messy Nessy)

                                    Homovies, 

                                     including:

                   3 or 4 Invasions, 1996-1999

                  Bill Ness Memorial short, 2019

         TREASURES FROM THE HOUSE OF NESS

            Donated by his partner Eddie Limoncelli

please take one per person with a $1 (or more) donation

ALL DONATIONS GO TO THE CHERRY GROVE DUNE FUND

I WASN’T COUNTED AT THE MARCH at MoMA January 31, 2020

UZI FILMS AND VIDEOS AT MoMA

https://www.moma.org/artists/75052?=undefined&page=1&direction= 

I am honored to have my film and video work from 1972 to 2012 be acquired by MoMA

Saying goodbye to 40 years of originals and masters.  Before and after photos in my studio and their new abode.  Sad but oddly liberating.   After years of choosing not to show many of these, the choice is no longer mine...

photos coming soonhttps://www.moma.org/artists/75052https://www.moma.org/artists/75052

THE BARONESS VON HINDENBERG RETURNS, outside at Performances Staged, May 1977

My first performance at Performances Staged, my loft on West Broadway, in May 1977

 was a Structuralist pantomime/dance descending the fire escape: 

THE BARONESS VON HINDENBERG RETURNS

 The Baroness, a combination go Grace Kelly and Anita Ekberg leaves her high school flame in Centralia for the high life with a Hollywood producer who offers her a film career.

 She leaves the producer to marry a European Baron and then is lured back by the producer who offers her a TV series.  She tosses the kids and returns to the U.S.

 There she runs into her high school flame now a bum in SoHo and offers herself but he has moved on, preferring his life as a bum.

Photographs by Edward Druck,        
The Cast:  Bette Druck as The Baroness,
Jed Harris as The Producer,
Brian Russo as The Baron,
& yours truly as The Bum/old flame.
A soundtrack blared from outdoor speakers on the third floor.

You can now watch LOVE AT THE BEACH II on VIMEO

Shot over a two week period in Cherry Grove and consisting of over 800 photos love At The Beach II continues my explorations with light and scale through the use of miniature plastic animals of different size.  This time they encounter live fauna who may not be all that pleased with the plastic
invasion.

https://vimeo.com/176323344?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-cliptranscode-201504&utm_campaign=29220

To watch enter the password "loveatthebeach2"

WORLD PEACE at Howl NYC, Friday 4/22 at 2pm Free

Friday, April 22, 2016 / 2 PM / Free

Full Moon Show

Surprise Performance and

Screening of Uzi Parnes short film starring Tom, World Peace

A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention

Spend your lunch break with the lunatic fringe! Outside, on the sidewalk, in front of Howl! Happening, experience the nutty wonderment that was the essence of Tom Murrin, our beloved Alien Comic. After the surprise performance we’ll be screening Uzi Parnes short film, World Peace, (1987) starring Tom as Claude Balls a philandering East Village performer gets his just reward when he hooks up with three beautiful women after his show are sure to have you begging for more. And there is more: For the astrologically handicapped, next month’s full scale, full moon performance madness is coming up Sunday, May 22^nd at 4 PM and features the presentation of Dixon Place’s 2016 Tom Murrin Performance Award, also known as The Tommy, to cultural tastemaker /////.

About Uzi Parnes

Uzi Parnes is a New York based filmmaker, photographer and actor. His photographs, video and live-film performances have been shown worldwide—most recently as part of Recycling Atlantis at 80WSE Gallery, NY (2014) and in a career survey at The Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin (2012).  His installation “Basra On First Avenue” at Broadway Windows, NY (10/14-2/15) was named one of the best artworks of 2014 by noted critic David Ebony.  More about Parnes

About Tom Murrin and the Full Moon Show

Performance is anything done with purpose and style—Tom Murrin

Howl! Happening houses the archive of Tom Murrin. Tom, aka the Alien Comic, is known as the Godfather of Performance Art. Every full moon—without fail, paid booking or not, in all seasons and whatever the weather—he performed his Luna Macaroona Full Moon Show. When he had a club date that fell on the full moon, he'd wrangle his friends to perform as his guests—pushing the careers of such groundbreaking performers as David Cale, David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris, Blue Man Group, Ethyl Eichelberger, Lisa Kron and many others. When he didn’t have a club date, he performed on street for passersby, transforming the pedestrian atmosphere with his madness and magic. Howl! Happening’s monthly series continues that tradition, with full scale, full moon performances in the gallery, and surprise pop up performances on the street.