Thursday, July 19th, 2007
WaPo mentions Rob Parrish’s “Jack”
Tonight, Arlington-based video artist Rob Parrish will present his new work, “Jack” (as in Bauer, Kiefer Sutherland’s character in TV’s “24″). Parrish combines footage from “24″ with the Department of Homeland Security’s color-coded threat advisory system. It’s a video about lying, and it critiques both “24″ and the advisory system as “absurd propaganda,” Parrish says.
While Parrish won’t debut “Jack” until tonight, you can watch his show “Next To Heaven” right now. In a review of the show, NewTeeVee’s Karina Longworth wrote that “Parrish’s modulated voices pairs so well with his montages that, sometimes, it’s not until I’m laughing out loud that I remember that I’m watching a manipulation.”
His work is always surreal and often funny, yet remains oddly coherent and even poignant at times. But don’t take my word for it…
on Sunday, August 12th, 2007 at 1:54 am:
Thanks Eric!