Dr Owen Parry

Biography

Dr Owen G. Parry is a London based artist, writer and scholar of performance and visual cultures. He completed a PhD (AHRC funded) at Goldsmiths in 2014 and was post-doctoral fellow (digital scholarship) at The Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh 2018-19. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Critical Studies Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.

Parry’s research explores the intersections of contemporary art, performance and pedagogy with pop fandom, queer cultures, and emergent vernacular forms. His current research explores the poor theory of fans, mystics, and digital folklore, and their increasing centrality to life in capitalist ruins. His artistic research and writing are formed by queer, feminist and anti-colonial approaches.

Parry’s practice often includes collaborative performance, writing, installation, sound and moving image and employs methods of "shipping" (rapturous pairings), re-purposing, and fictioning to generate new aesthetic assemblages, counter-myths, and speculative imaginaries. He is interested in practices of 'non-knowledge' and ‘imagining otherwise’ through experiences of the queer, collective, affective, and embodied kind. His ongoing project Fan Riot explores how fans drive the internet and includes artworks, performances, publications and a 'fan club' series.

His projects have been funded and commissioned for public programmes internationally in UK, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Finland, Canada, South Korea and USA. He publishes widely in academic books, journals, and online.