Wrong Place, Wrong Time

Laura Parnes

1998 | 00:05:35 | United States | English | Color | Stereo | 4:3 | Video

Collection: Single Titles

Tags: Crime or Violence, Death and Dying, Found Footage, Television

Wrong Place, Wrong Time uses appropriated images from the "reality television" genre to examine the seductiveness of the spectacle of tragedy. This video exists in an area where the division between reality and image are simultaneous. The images are of real explosions, disasters, deaths, and assaults from the nightly news, Cops, Real TV, tabloid television, and talk shows. At times the subjects appear illuminated through an overlapping of imagery, while the low-res distortion creates a pixelated, almost ecstatic quality. Point-of-view shots draw the viewer into the endorphin rush. These mesmerizing images slowly reveal their tragic consequences while reminding the viewer of their own mortality.

Pricing Information

Additional Formats/Uses
Request an Exhibition Quote Request an Archival Quote

Please contact info@vdb.org or visit http://www.vdb.org/content/prices-formats with any questions about the license types listed here.




Exhibitions + Festivals

Brooklyn!, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, FL, 2002 

Hybro, Exit Art: The First World, New York, 1999 

Theater of Cruelty, (curated by Robert Boyd), Christinerose Gallery, New York, 1998