aelita parizek
they / them pronouns
los angeles
Currently Specializing in Erotic Photography and Video Production
BFA 2019 Parsons the New School for Design
aelita.parizek@gmail.com
Aelita Parizek works mostly in silicone and slime, with adjacent video and performance pieces. The work is never complete until activated by another body through touch or physical proximity. Some buzzwords and phrases related to Aelita’s work are sex, abjection, attraction / repulsion, queer intimacy / collectivity, trans embodiment, animacy, and haptology.
In response to a wearable pock-marked silicone piece Aelita wore at a party in Brooklyn in 2018, a stranger made a comment which succinctly articulates the artist’s goals and desires:
”I love your outfit– it makes me want to tear all my skin off.”
CV
group shows and screenings
2025
Extraction performance with Dagger Wound at The Mr. She in Los Angeles, CA
January 26th, 2025
2024
Screening of SIDESHAVE, a short film I edited and scored, a collaboration with Carta Monir.
May 10th, 2024, at the Leather Archives & Museum
https://cartamonir.com/work/sideshave-2024
2021
Participating artist in the soft launch of Body of Workers, an online platform for sex worker artists.
Curated by Veil Machine and Kink Out for Eyebeam’s Rapid Response Residency
Feb 20th, 2021. https://bodyofworkers.com/
2020
[year not found]
2019
Queer Revolutions: The Body as Terrain for Insurrection
El Sótano Art Space, Brooklyn, NY. June 7th – Aug 2nd, 2019
Parsons BFA Thesis Exhibition, 25 East 13th St, New York, NY
May 14th – 20th, 2019
2018
Shades of Eternal Night
Live performance of My Heart Is In My Ass (for Bob Flanagan) with video screening
25 East 13th St, New York, NY, Nov 19th 2018
STIGMA UNBOUND: PRIDE
Performance piece with sculpture and sound at a private performance space
with sex-worker artist collective Stigma Unbound collective in Brooklyn, NY, June 21 2018
Fire in the Wetlab: Parsons Junior Exhibition
25 East 13th St, New York, NY, May 2018
2017
Re-Coded: Strategies of Queer Abstraction
Parsons BFA / MFA Gallery, 25 E 13th ST, New York, NY, October 2–15 2017
WITCH HOUSE
Insel–Berlin Treptow, Berlin, Germany, August 18 2017
Screening of UNFLOWER animation work
Touch Sensitive
Screening of work at Guest Projects Gallery, London, UK March 26 2017
Press: http://girlsinfilm.net/event/touch-sensitive-exhibition
Works in Process
RISD Museum, Providence, RI, Feb 16 2017
Participating Artist in the museum's Works in Process series
CRUSH
Exposé Gallery, Providence, RI, January 2017
2016
Intimacy Queered
Gelman Gallery at The RISD Museum, Providence, RI, October 2016