MARTHA ROSLER: KITCHEN THEATRE
Artist Talk, Screening and Premiere of New Work
MARTHA ROSLER: KITCHEN THEATRE
Artist Talk, Screening and Premiere of New Work
535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011
MARTHA ROSLER: KITCHEN THEATRE
Artist Talk, Screening and Premiere of New Work
535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011
MARTHA ROSLER: KITCHEN THEATRE
Artist Talk, Screening and Premiere of New Work
535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011
Works
In A Budding Gourmet, Rosler explores the ideological processes through which food preparation comes to be seen as "cuisine," a product of national culture. Accompanied by the strains of a violin concerto, Rosler's deadpan narrator explains her reasons for wanting to become a gourmet....
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...
In 2003, for A Short History of Performance, Part II, at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, Rosler announced an open call for a live restaging of her seminal 1975 video piece Semiotics of the Kitchen. Twenty-six women participated in a rotating performance of Rosler's script at the Whitechapel. On a set stocked with culinary utensils, the participants were taped and "broadcast" on television monitors throughout the gallery via live feed. Semiotics of the Kitchen: An Audition documents the preliminary rehearsals with Rosler and the public event, the "audition."
In an astute deconstruction of the political ideology that pervades the everyday, The East is Red, The West is Bending is a tongue-in-cheek presentation of a booklet that accompanies a newly marketed consumer appliance, a West Bend electric wok. In this performance-based work, Rosler reads the...
