MARTHA ROSLER
MARTHA ROSLER
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York City
MARTHA ROSLER
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York City
MARTHA ROSLER
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York City
Works
Backyard Economy II (Diane Germain Mowing)
Martha Rosler
1974, 6:32 min, color, silent, Super 8mm film on video
Set in the arch-American "home movie" context of a sunny suburban yard, Rosler's early Super-8 film Backyard Economy ll (Diane Germain Mowing) documents the mundane activities of a woman going about her domestic chores. Quietly depicting this figure in the tasks of mowing and watering the grass,...
Rosler creates a kind of whirling music-video burlesque to offer icons and reminders of the conjunction in Chile of U.S. corporate presence, popular musical strains, and victims of political terror. Chile, at the southernmost end of South America, is on the fast track to admission into the...
In an inquiry into the relation between the corporation, the state and the family, Domination and the Everyday presents a fractured barrage of simultaneous sound tracks, film stills and a crawling text. Questioning the privatized existence of a woman and child, and the role of media information...
Shot in a Le Corbusier housing project, Firminy-Vert, in south central France, this tape traces its history through an exploration of the way in which residents live in and with it as an architectural entity. Called by its residents Le Corbu after its renowned architect, the complex was built...
In a collusion of text and image, Rosler re-presents the NBC Nightly News and other broadcast reports to analyze their deceptive syntax and capture the confusion inserted intentionally into the news script. The artist questions the fallibility of electronic transmission by emphasizing the...
In this live performance for Paper Tiger Television's public-access cable program in New York, Rosler deconstructs the messages in Vogue and its advertising. Rosler looks at the institutional slants of the magazine industry and the fashion industry's reliance on sweatshops.
In this new video work, Rosler presents a short but incisive statement. A mechanical toy figure dressed as an American soldier plays "God Bless America" on a trumpet. The camera pans down, revealing that the toy's camouflage-clad trouser leg has been rolled up to uncover a mechanism that looks uncannily like a prosthetic limb.
Secrets From the Street examines the intersection of cultures and classes as exemplified by the street life of San Francisco's Mission District. This videotape, produced for an exhibition held jointly at San Francisco's City Hall and its Museum of Modern Art, argues — against the show's theme and...
Semiotics of the Kitchen adopts the form of a parodic cooking demonstration in which, Rosler states, "An anti-Julia Child replaces the domesticated 'meaning' of tools with a lexicon of rage and frustration." In this performance-based work, a static camera is focused on a woman in a kitchen. On a...
