Watchwords of the Eighties

Watchwords of the Eighties

Martha Rosler
1981-82, 62:57 min, color, sound

Description

A silhouetted figure of ambiguous identity, in street gear and carrying a giant boom box, scrawls messages of resistance on projected slides of Reaganist imagery and on an annotated map of Central and Latin America.

Performance at Documenta 7 (Kassel, Germany) and at U.S. and Canadian sites.