SPECULATIVE ART PROJECTS+CURATION RESEARCH+RESIDENCY EXPERIMENTS+ELECTRONIC BOOK MAKING+MAGAZINES-LOCATED IN THE HISTORIC CANAL DISTRICT OF HOLYOKE, MA 362 DWIGHT STREET - HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS - holyokeresearcher@gmail.com

Thursday, April 2, 2015

2015

PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE
LAKE HITCHCOCK CENTER FOR THE BOOK ARTS
HOLYOKE TRANSFER MAGAZINE TWO

ARE HOSTING A MAGAZINE LAUNCH AND LOOPED VIDEO SCREENING
ON SATURDAY, APRIL 18TH 7-10PM (FREE RECEPTION EVENT) 362 DWIGHT ST. 2ND FLOOR MICRO GALLERY

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

2014

PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE: VILM ALLEY / FRIDAY / JUNE 2OTH  / 2014 

PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE:
SPECULATION(ELATION)5 
IS PLEASED TO HOST THREE MEDIA SCREENINGS IN OUR VILM ALLEY. 

WOMEN WITH KNIVES FILM TOUR (TRAILER) 
PRESENTED BY LAUREN COOK / KELLY GALLAGHER / CHARLOTTE TAYLOR
TOOTH AND NAIL CURATED BY DARRIN MARTIN
PIXIES - SILVER SNAIL 
AND 
THE BUNNIES - HESITANCE TRIP
DIRECTED BY MATTHEW NEWMAN / MOUNT EMULT  / THE BUREAU RECORDS
SPECIAL THANKS TO: PRONOBLEM

THE SCREENING PROJECTION WILL TAKE PLACE FRIDAY, JUNE 20TH 
(9-11PM) RECEPTION 7:30PM / THE EVENT IS FREE 
PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE: VILM ALLEY / 362 DWIGHT ST. HOLYOKE, MA






MOUNT EMULT

Sunday, December 1, 2013

2013

MAGAZINE 1: THE UNCANNY PIONEER VALLEY

SPECIAL EDITION #0: ORIGINAL COVER

SPECIAL EDITION #1: ALTERNATE COVER BY DENIS LUZURIAGA

SPECIAL EDITION #2: ALTERNATE COVER BY AMY JOHNQUEST
SPECIAL EDITION #3: ALTERNATE COVER BY SAMUEL ROWLETT
SPECIAL EDITION #4: ALTERNATE COVER BY DARRIN MARTIN

SPECIAL EDITION #5: ALTERNATE COVER BY RJ MESSINEO

SPECIAL EDITION #6: ALTERNATE COVER BY FAFNIR ADAMITES

SPECIAL EDITION #7: ALTERNATE COVER BY SCOTT REILLY
   
SPECIAL EDITION #8: ALTERNATE COVER BY JIM SHEA
   
SPECIAL EDITION #9: ALTERNATE COVER BY SUZANNE LOMANTO

Thursday, October 17, 2013

2013



LAKE HITCHCOCK CENTER FOR THE BOOK ARTS
MAGAZINE 1: THE UNCANNY PIONEER VALLEY

MAGAZINE LAUNCH & LOOPED VIDEO SCREENING

VARIABLE INDEX
The 122 page magazine will include alternate covers, artist pages, national & international
dispatches, research projects, puzzles and secrets from over 45 contributors.

THE EDU CORRIDOR
The magazine will also include student project pages and video from both 
Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA, Department of Communication, Media and Theater arts 
and Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, Department of Art.

VIDEO CURATION
Accompanying the publication will be a special one night only looped 
video screening curated around the theme of performance art for the camera.

TIME & DATE & ADDRESS
PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE: 362 DWIGHT ST. HOLYOKE, MA
EVENT & RECEPTION (FREE): SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23RD, 7-10:30PM

ALTERNATE COVERS
DARRIN MARTIN
SAMUEL ROWLETT
DENIS LUZURIAGA
SCOTT REILLY
AMY JOHNQUEST / BANNERQUEEN
FAFNIR ADAMITES
RJ MESSINEO
SUZANNE LOMANTO
JIM SHEA
DISPATCHES
GREG SAULMON
CHRIS NELSON
JUSTIN P. WEST
JAY DUCHARME
SAMUEL ROWLETT
DAPHNE BOARD
KARL ERICKSON
THE EDU CORRIDOR
HOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE / PERFORMANCE ART 
                        FOR THE CAMERA CLASS - STUDENTS                           
BROOKLYN COLLEGE / DIGITAL VIDEO CLASS - STUDENTS
ARTIST PAGES
JAMIL HELLU
SARA BLISS
HOWIE CHERMAN
DENISE IRIS
KARL ERICKSON
BODYBANKS & CAT GIRL GENERATOR
MIRIAM DYM
ALEXIS FEDORJACZENKO
CHRISTIAN BURNS - burnsWORK
ANTHONY DISCENZA
MITCH PATRICK
GX JUPPITER-LARSEN / THE HATERS
ARIEL KOTKER
SIMGE HOUGH
DAN GREENWOOD / DIAGRAM A
BAIRD SOULES
SYNTHHUMPERS: JIM SUPANICK & JOSH SOLONDZ
PUZZLES
KARI GATZKE
GX JUPPITER-LARSEN
READYMADE
LOOPED VIDEO SCREENING: 
(PERFORMANCE ART FOR THE CAMERA)
SARA BLISS
DENISE IRIS
KARL ERICKSON
BODYBANKS & CAT GIRL GENERATOR
MIRIAM DYM
NEIL YOUNG / CLOACA
CHRISTIAN BURNS - burnsWORK
MITCH PATRICK
SAMUEL ROWLETT
GX JUPPITER-LARSEN / THE HATERS
SYNTHHUMPERS: JIM SUPANICK & JOSH SOLONDZ
ARIEL KOTKER
BEN HERSEY
DAN GREENWOOD / DIAGRAM A
MONICA PANZARINO
KAREN CHOY - BROOKLYN COLLEGE
AMANDA FIGUEROA- BROOKLYN COLLEGE
MICHAEL SAVAGE & ANGEL MARTINEZ - HOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
PRONOBLEM
CHRIS NELSON
HOWIE CHERMAN
AMARA HARK-WEBER
MERCEDES TEIXIDO

Thursday, August 1, 2013

2013 - PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE @ CANAL CREATURE CRAWL






PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE 
PRESENTS:
MOBILE GEOGRAPHY PERFORMANCE SERIES #6
PHOTO-INTERACTABLES & COS-PLAY VOLLEY(BALL)))

A HYBRID PERFORMANCE SERIES PAYING HOMAGE TO TWO
ARTISTS AND ONE SPORT ALL SPAWNED IN HOLYOKE, MA.

THE INDIVIDUALS ARE:
 WILLIAM WEGMAN (CONCEPTUAL ARTIST / PHOTOGRAPHER)
KNOWN FOR VIDEO ART AND COLLABORATIONS WITH HIS MANY DOGS

ARTHUR ADAMS (COMIC BOOK ILLUSTRATOR)
KNOWN FOR HIS 1990’S CREATION “MONKEYMAN & O’BRIEN”

THE SPORT IS:
VOLLEYBALL (INVENTED BY WILLIAM MORGAN IN 1895)

PHOTO-INTERACTABLES
PHOTO-INTERACTABLE (WEGMAN-ENTITY) #1 
 4X6ft. Mixed media interactive photo stands. 

PHOTO-INTERACTABLE (ADAMS-ENTITY) #2 
 4X6ft. Mixed media interactive photo stands. 

COS-PLAY VOLLEYBALL X2
Costume volleyball event with two joined nets.

The variable project is a collaboration between
The City of Holyoke, PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE, media artist Torsten Zenas Burns and students from Holyoke Community College - Performance Art for the Camera class taught in the Department of Communication, Media and Theater arts. 

SPECIAL THANKS TO:
City of Holyoke
 Jeffrey C. Bianchine: Creative Economy Coordinator
Canal Creature Crawl / Nancy Howard Smith / M.I.F.A.
Signs Plus, Holyoke, MA
Kari Gatzke / Denis Luzuriaga
Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA
The Dept. of Communication, Media and Theater arts. Holyoke, MA
HCC (EMS) student participants

EVENT
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26TH - 4PM-12AM   
HERITAGE STATE PARK / 2ND CANAL / HOLYOKE CITY HALL  

Sunday, October 28, 2012

2012


2012 CATALOG 3 IS NOW AVAILABLE ON BLURB
SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL OF THE ARTISTS WHO PARTICIPATED IN 2012'S 
SCREENINGS / EXHIBITIONS AND HYBRID PERFORMANCE EVENTS!

2013 WE ARE TEAMING UP WITH LAKE HITCHCOCK CENTER FOR THE ARTS 

HOPE ALL IS WELL AND PROJECTS ACTIVATED!

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

2012

PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE
PRESENTS:
STRANGE ATTRACTORS / BODYRADIO
SATURDAY / OCTOBER 20, 2012 / AND BY (SPECIAL APPOINTMENT)
LOOPED  VIDEO SCREENING + EXHIBITION
SPECIAL THANKS TO KARI GATZKE & THE BURNS FAMILY

Encyclopedia Destructica and The Institute of Extraterrestrial Sexuality

STRANGE ATTRACTORS

INVESTIGATIONS IN NON-HUMANOID EXTRATERRESTRIAL SEXUALITIES
CURATED BY SUSIE SILVER / CHRISTOPHER KARDAMBIKIS / JASDEEP KHAIRA

SCREENIN-BOOK/DVD RELEASE PARTY

Strange Attractors includes the work of 70 artists, writers and filmmakers who have created remarkable explorations of possible extraterrestrial life forms and their multifarious sexual desires.
Videos will include works by Peggy Ahwesh, Scott Andrew, Darrin Martin, Jacob Ciocci, Matthew Day, Hilary Harp & Suzie Silver, Jen Inman & Tom McConnell, Amy Johnson, Bum Lee, Michael Mallis & Mikey McParlane, Shana Moulton, Larry Shea, Joshua Thorson & Mike Harringer and more!
Beginning at 7:00pm.(Free)

Strange Attractors Book/DVD

BODYRADIO

A GROUP EXHIBITION EXPLORING RE-IMAGINED RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN BODIES, ARCHITECTURAL INTELLIGENCES, ABJECT DESIRES, AND RADIONIC CHEMISTRY.

MICHELLE HANDELMAN
RACHEL STEVENS
ANGELA ZAMMARELLI
CHRISTOPHER WILLINGHAM
THE AUTHENTIC BOYS
ALICIA RENADETTE 
SAMUEL ROWLETT
KEITH PARTYKA
VIROCODE

BODYRADIO


MICHELLE HANDELMAN
"Candyland" / 1999 / VIDEO
The artist as obsessive machine, ingesting pure color in an 
act of compulsive consumption.
















RACHEL STEVENS
COLOR STUDIES (AFTER ALBERS, 
GUACHE ON PAPER  / DIMENSIONS VARIABLE / 2012



ANGELA ZAMMARELLI
SHUT UP SPACEMAKER, YOU TALK TO MUCH / VIDEO / 6:15 / 2008 














CHRISTOPHER WILLINGHAM
NERVOUS SYSTEMS / PHOTO ARRAY / 2012
DECLENSION
CALDERA
HALOES, HARUSPICY AND THE MORTAL COIL
TIPSY: SOFT CELLS FOR HARD SOL
RHIZOME
SAPROTROPHIC PHALLUSSY
LE LANGUAGE DES FLEURS






























THE AUTHENTIC BOYS
THREESOME / VIDEO / 2010 / 10:00

While Stefan and Paul relax sipping their cocktail, Ann-Kristin gets cosy on her couch. “Some company wouldn’t do any harm,” she considers, and in doing so she thinks of Stefan. He and Paul are watching Friends in the Bermuda Bar, when suddenly Stefan’s phone rings. It is an invitation from Ann-Kristin to come over. Stefan does not contemplate for long and asks Paul to join him. Ann-Kristin is happy about the visit of the two men. Kindly she invites them to join her on the couch, where they gradually get closer to one another…
Pornsites are the most clicked websites ever. Is porn the answer to our unmistakable need for physical contact or just one of its aspects? In any case the physical touch forms the center of Threesome. The film explores what comes across as the phenomenon porn and observes it in its very own way.
Threesome is the first cooperation between Banality Dreams and Authentic Boys.
PROCESSION / MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION / 2012
ASSUME THE POSITION / MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION / VARIABLE DATE
























































KEITH PARTYKA
UNTITLED SERIES / PHOTOGRAPHS / 1987-88
VIROCODE
GERM THEORY (CERRO) / PHOTOGRAPH / 2000





































SAMUEL ROWLETT
UNICORN, OIL PAINTING, 13"X13", 2007
CAPE, INK ON PAPER,
THE WORM, INK ON PAPER, 2008
CPR, INK ON PAPER, 2012
STUDY, INK ON PAPER, 2012