courierknew asked: If you were a mode of transportation, what would you be? -Sister Mary Roy
This made my day…and I’d be a unicycle, obviously.
Martha Rosler’s “Semiotics of the Kitchen” is one of my favorite examples of feminist video art. In this piece, she has set up her camera directly in front of her and displays various tools of the kitchen. Rosler addresses the boring, repetitive, and repressed feeling of being a housewife. In the video she progressively gets angrier and angrier with each movement she makes.
Her movements begin to seem too violent, especially as she uses utensils like knives. It brings to question her motives and actual intent of her displaying the items. I completely love the way she calmly places the utensils down in this kind of quietly passive agressive manner. Such a phenomenal performance piece.
Rosler actually has a bunch of pieces that I will add next, but this is arguably her most famous video work.
(via girlsgetbusyzine)
