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PARMER is site for discursive programming, screenings, reading groups, exhibitions and events that focus on feminism and feminist strategies. Founded in 2014, the first year of programming was based in BedStuy, Brooklyn. The second year has been hosted by the Abrons Art Center, on the Lower East Side in New York City.

History
PARMER was founded in 2014 by curator and writer Amanda Parmer. The first series of programing focused on the relationship between feminism and technology, initiated on February 1, 2014, when PARMER was one of thirty international Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon satellite events. Exhibitions and events included projects with Lindsay Benedict, Nikita Gale, Liz Linden and Jen Kennedy, Aviva Rahmani, and Heather Bursch.

In conjunction with solo exhibitions by Lindsay Benedict, Nikita Gale, and Heather Bursch, PARMER hosted a series of events, including Wikipedia editing sessions (Benedict), live tweet reading groups (Gale), and reading and discussion groups with Ben Davis and Coleen Asper (Bursch).

events with Liz Linden and Jen Kennedy (The New York Times Feminist Reading Group), Aviva Rhamani (Virtual Feminism and Environmental Triage, a “Gulf to Gulf” webcast).

http://parmer.info/_events/2014-02-08-Art+Feminism_Wikipedia_Edit-a-Thon.html

The second series, which focused on feminism and dialogic space, began in the fall of 2014 and included projects by Cassandra Guan, Siân Evans and Jacqueline Mabey, as well as Flora Katz and Mikaela Assolent.

In January 2015, PARMER moved to the Abrons Arts Center. The third series of screenings, reading groups, exhibitions and events has focused on the triangulation of feminism, film and psychoanalysis to think critically about representations of women in modern screen culture, the discourse of global warming, construction of desire, feminist temporality, narrative and affect.

Participants and collaborators include: Tom Ackers and Melanie Gilligan, Malin Arnell and Pablo Zuleta Zahr, Jessica Segall, Park McArthur, Chelsea Knight, Amy Balkin, João Enxuto and Erica Love, Arlen Austin, Dorothy Howard, Sara Eliassen, Meredyth Sparks, Cassandra Guan, Liz Linden and Jen Kennedy amongst others. PARMER participated in the NADA New York art fair in May, 2015.

http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/previews/the-agenda-this-week-in-new-york--24/

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/calendar-and-events/2014/10/07/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-the-guggenheim-museum-architecture/4061