Laura Conway

Laura Conway is a Denver-based interdisciplinary artist. She started making art in the Denver DIY scenes, booking underground music shows, hosting art galleries in her punk house, and embarking on “film tours.”

Conway carries the ethos and esthetics she took from underground music into her current practice. Currently she creates politically grounded works that span genre and medium, using surrealism and a sense of play to contemplate life in late stage capitalism.

While she primarily identifies as a filmmaker, her work hybridizes performance art, animation, documentary, music, and dance. Her main preoccupation is systems of power and wondering how art especially the erotic, and the absurd can resist domination. What is the impact of the surveillance state on bodies? Can the erotic and sensual be modes of resistance?

In her work she finds herself trying to escape a catch 22 where her very tool of creation, the camera, is one of the tools of power and domination. Conway’s characters are often part of untold or overlooked histories, whether it is her communist grandparent’s in the McCarthy Era, a queer woman botanist, or a black woman computer programmer in the 1980s.

Her films have shown at film festivals nationally and internationally such as Slamdance, The Chicago Underground Film Festival, The Lucca Film Festival, and Antimatter Media Arts festival among others.