Long before the advent of ‘fake news’, Martha Rosler was teaching us how to think critically about documentary imagery and reporting. And that was why the war was called “the living-room war.” So it’s not as though we see more of the war, in some ways the framing around it is worse, but in other cases, there is a lot of advocacy for people in other situations who are, we can say, victims of (U.S.) drone strikes and other forms of warfare. Women don’t want to be labeled feminist, in part because for many such a label is feared as messing up their chances to be either loved in private or exhibited in public. And yet it continues to have a powerful hold on us today. And then Obama was elected, at which point we all sat back down, which is a little bit sad but totally understandable. So, in effect, using clothing as a substitute for humanity, for our world, there was one installation I did where I put the name, date of birth, and prisoner number of some female political prisoners imprisoned by the South Vietnamese government on American clothes (Some Women Prisoners of the Thieu Regime in the Infamous Poulo Condore Prison, South Vietnam (1972)). If you don’t look closely, they look like piles of books, arranged fairly straightforwardly, but they are actually digital images of free-floating spines, and there is no book behind the spine. My opinions on the pedagogical function of the art institution have remained in a state of suspension. I don’t still feel that way anymore today, obviously. When we showed it for the first time, the reactions to it were very clear-cut. I thought of these works as ‘not art’ and refused invitations to show them in art institutions, but as Allan Kaprow pointed out a bit later, non-art always becomes art-art eventually and is inducted into the temple. What about your choice of aesthetic? Also, photographic technologies are now ubiquitous, thanks especially to cell phones, many of which have quite respectable cameras built in. But I had to call a halt to it at a certain point, because the books got very tired and wanted to go back home. In the 1970s, Martha Rosler, among others, sought to define and practice documentary photography in ways that would invite the viewer to reflect on the politics of representation at work in documentary art. I wound up making 20 of them over a period of years, and they acquired that series title, House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home. They’d say, “This is not a serious artist.” I have that in writing! Her works range from photo-text to video, performance and installation. It’s a place to escape from. It’s based on a traveling library I had for a while, which was really a reading room with about 7,500 books. Installation view of If you can’t afford to live here, mo-o-ove! Another, earlier video which centers on food production and consumption was A Budding Gourmet, and a postcard series I produced a couple of years earlier can be found collected as Service: A Trilogy on Colonization, three first-person narratives of women in different social locations, also with respect to the preparation and consumption of food. ... while a radio interview with an art dealer plays in the background. - Finally, you’re going to have a show at MoMA. I also made a work about Trump. Author: Rosler, Martha Topic: Art--History and Feminism and art--United States--History--20th century Subject: Rosler, Martha Language: English Physical Description: 1 MiniDV tape and 1 document Publication Info: New York (N.Y.) Genre: video recordings and transcripts Collection: programs and museum audiences we encounter an enormous contradiction: While the majority involved in those are women, in museum shows and jobs especially they are totally underrepresented. This is not democracy. So the other things were just things that artists did as a way of saying, “I actually do have something to say that can be translated into images as opposed to abstractions.” One of your most iconic series is House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home (c. 1967–72), where you brought together familiar, domestic, relatable spaces with grueling images of the Vietnam War. Interview: Andrea Bowers discusses power dynamics post #MeToo The artist, whose work is causing a stir at Art Basel, aims to keep alive conversations on the toxic nature of … Academe is fine with taking women’s money for training-back in the day, art schools were often a good place to park genteel girls, and so is the study of art history and the lower ranks of the curatorial hierarchy. They were a little bit leery, but I managed to do that, and to realize that so many people have so much to say about it in the art world that what I should do is collect people’s responses and curate a show, and that’s what I did at Dia (in the 1989 exhibition If You Lived Here...). Citizen journalism is precisely what drives the many blogs and ephemeral print publications I read. On its invention, the photograph was considered a purely mechanical, an artless object that could not be included in the fine arts. I was part of a group of artists against the war in Iraq. Would you say that living in the age of Trump has affected you in your artistic practice? FEMINISM, POST-MODERNISM AND MEDIA SOCIETY. P.B. They’re still run by upper management, in conjunction with trustees and donors, and are in some degree of thrall to municipalities and elected representatives. - For some years we witnessed new critical thinking regarding the position and function of the artistic institution, which crystallized in the so-called New Institutionalism, a sociological perspective on institutions and how they interact with and affect society and the individual. - Postmodernism was the result or projection of the crisis of modernism and marked the shift from a text-based to a visual-based society. How did you first develop the idea? The Gray Drape, from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home, New Series (2008); Photomontage. Why is that? For this interview, Rosler took a break from completing several new pieces for the Jewish Museum show to invite PIN–UP into her Greenpoint brownstone, where we discussed her trailblazing work on housing and the built environment, and how she continues to bring the big issues home. Another important aspect of your work is the ability to collapse complex cultural, political, and social issues into a very personal kind of view — not necessarily the view of a single person, but making it so that the viewer gets an individualized perspective on these massive, usually faceless problems. Nevertheless, the dominant motivation for our support (of war) is nationalism and fear. “All her work still feels very immediate and urgent, especially when it comes to the omnipresent power of the media to shape public opinion and influence private reality,” Alexander continues. I am holding a gigantic garage sale in the atrium of the museum-a garage sale is a great, ritualized American institution, a way for private people and families in small towns and suburbs to recoup some financial value from their discarded commodities and for their neighbors to find something of value at a low price. What strategies can female artists develop to respond to the still male-dominated, patriarchal art world? "There was a tremendous amount of alternative culture that completely took place... without any relation to the high art world of New York,” she remembers. - Feminism is a central angle in all my work; it does not replace or supplant other considerations. That goes back to the idea that there are people who we claim are threats to us and our homes, but actually, they aren’t. M.R. You graduated in 1965 from Brooklyn College and then spent time in California in the late 60s and 70s. (2011) and the author of The Art Fair Age (2008), both published by CHARTA. Do you think that in our modern media age something has changed in the way we experience and understand these events? Semiotics of the Kitchen is a work by Martha Rosler. Kids love it. That’s exactly the time when I was dealing with these issues such as housing and gentrification in relationship to the political, financial, and art systems of New York City. So one day I was walking down the street with my boyfriend, and let’s see, I was on Broadway approaching Astor Place. Taken from PIN–UP 25 Fall Winter 2018/19. In Woman with Vacuum (Vacuuming Pop Art) Martha Rosler addresses the marginalisation of women in pop art. And of course I have spoken about this publicly, reminding artists that we can do things that make a difference. It has become unfashionable to call oneself a postmodernist in art at present, and in literature it seems to also have been a passing phase, filling in for that moment in which, as Lyotard termed it, the grands récits, or grand narratives, of social telos were proving to be bankrupt. I think the U.S. is worse in this regard than Europe, where curators often continue to have a strong idea about the need for critical engagement through art. We just filmed it at a friend’s loft. Photography didn’t really start to play an important role in your work until the 1980s. I was really shocked at the way there was an easy slide from the image of the woman to the image of the woman’s surroundings. M.R. Martha Rosler. Look for it in the latter half of November of this year. The interview was filmed in La Virreina. Women really do identify with their homes — our homes, I should say.(Laughs.). M.R. It has been very useful in organizing activists-that much should be obvious, I think. He is co-editor of When a Painting Moves…Something Must Be Rotten! We might want to consult Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle, in which he points out that the ’spectacle’ is the representation of the social relations of the means of production in advanced capitalist economies. But there was this idea that this was somehow melded into the home, the furniture, and all that other material, and there was a particular way that women were both seen as infants — because the 1960s especially were a highly infantilizing era for what women were supposed to look like — and at the same time had to be responsible for everything relating to kids and the home itself. A Gourmet Experience is a complex installation and performance I did about those matters in 1973 as my M.F.A. “By boiling her subject matter down into small slices of life — indeed she often consciously mimics the look and feel of ‘high art’ — she is able to situate her work in a familiar context,” says Darsie Alexander, chief curator at New York’s Jewish Museum, where Irrespective, a survey show of Rosler’s work from 1965 to the present, is taking place this fall. At the center of her artistic practice are sociopolitical concerns related to, among others, women’s place in society, art and its power structures, post-modernism and corporate media. But I didn’t realize until I was probably in late high school, I guess, and maybe even early college, that this was completely translated into these infantilizing images of women in advertising. Interview with Martha Rosler 81 Weinstock: Since this piece is less playful than the others, it seems quite different. Martha Rosler: Quite honestly I started as a painter, and those other things were a way of expressing something that wasn’t abstract, because I was trained as an Abstract Expressionist painter. M.R. - If we look at art schools, M.F.A. Art and Photography is the first book of its kind to survey the major presence of photography at the centre of artistic practice from the 1960s onwards. Criticality seems superfluous when sales are at issue. - That is a strangely totalizing picture of a complex channel of communication; there is a good reason for attributing some of the rapidity of mobilizations in the so-called Arab Spring to the availability of social media. In 1975 you made Semiotics of the Kitchen, a 6-minute parody of a cooking show with you as a host. 1978, 32:09 min, color, sound. Interview with Martha Rosler, 2006 May 12 and 2008 February 15 Martha Rosler (b. I think that’s a good way to put it; I like to bring issues, which are relatively abstract, down to the level of the personal. MARTHA ROSLER: Dia had invited me to do a solo project, and I chose homelessness as the subject. It is a viewpoint that demands a rethinking of questions of power in society and thus has undeniable potency. “Feminism is a viewpoint that demands a rethinking of questions of power in society and thus has undeniable potency.” Martha Rosler is a prolific American artist and writer. Martha Rosler was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1943. I was always surprised at the differentiation between what girls were supposed to do and what boys were supposed to do because I was pretty much a tomboy. Martha Rosler: This is the fourth time, all within the last two and a half years. It actually just popped out of the drawer recently and I’ve been working on it again. But history has not, in fact, ended, nor has the boom-and-bust cycle of capitalism, and thus we see a resurgence of anti-capitalist perspectives, and thus of those “grands récits.”. What is your opinion about the position of the art critic? He is curatorial advisor to the Artist Pension Trust in New York. The idea that people could be sleeping on the streets and that they were considered not people for that reason completely horrified me. Museums are certainly more approachable-they have gone far to make themselves seem like friendly and desirable places to visit by adding galas for the well-heeled, dance parties for the young, and activity days for the youngsters. M.R. One of your more recent photographic series is Off the Shelf: War and Empire (2008–18). And when I say “Victorian,” what I mean is the exclusivity of it was blessed as a viable idea in the Victorian age, if then, and by the time I was a teenager it was already being ridiculed. - I do observe one big change: the shift from the combination dealer-art critic toward the dealer-collector, and with it a diminishing critical discourse that affects the quality of exhibitions and the kind of art being sold, which I understand is hopelessly kitsch-easy identifiable, nostalgic, pastiche-like, nicely realist and hardly critical. !, at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York City, (2016). Her works range from photo-text to video, performance and installation. We had access to a video camera, and I thought that I would like to make this video using the alphabet. - In this sense, one of your signature works-if I may say so-is House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home. What are your ideas about this? - With the supposed nuclear weapons in the hands of Iraq that never materialized and the death of Osama Bin Laden without any evidence of the corpse, how can we interpret critically the concept of the real or the truth, or do we just accept whatever governments say? Pop art generally tended to produce an image of a woman who was a pre-pubescent girl — and anorexic at that. But what, after all, does it mean to characterize us as an ‘image society?’ Are there images anywhere without texts available for our understanding? I really don’t know how to describe it. I thought shelter was the most boring thing you could ever imagine. Martha Rosler, Window display for Monumental Garage Sale, New Museum, New York, 2000. You have engaged with this topic both from an artistic as well as an art-critic point of view. How has feminism influenced you, and can you talk about a seminal work such as Semiotics of the Kitchen? And to be very simple-minded about it, I wanted to say, “Well it’s one world, and in fact, we here in our pretty little houses — or the houses we aspire to be in — are deeply implicated in this.” It was another form of identification for the viewer. We use our intelligence to determine what evidence there is for the claims of persons and of the state. A Victorian idea, yet a remarkably enduring one. I still enjoy seeing how people react to it the first time they watch it. They help form the universe of discourse of art. Feminism is a world view, or a great factor in such a perspective. - The best critics are mostly young and mostly publish online. Semiotics of the Kitchen, a sort of bizarrely humorous six-minute black-and-white video from December 1974 (dated 1975), was one part of a large body of work in several media that I had been doing taking on questions of women, society, and art through the medium of food and the culture of food preparation and consumption. How do you decide which medium to work in? I had been doing a lot of thinking about and even writing about cooking, and the way that cooking transferred onto women the role of both producer and consumer of what formerly was haute cuisine. Interview with the artist Martha Rosler, included in the World Goes Pop exhibition at Tate Modern. The work at MoMA is called Meta-Monumental Garage Sale. This was 1988, and homelessness, as a … In any case, though, I think it’s tough to accept a label from your mother’s generation. Most people, mostly men, hated it. Or is that something you already felt at a much younger age? . I had to move to Brooklyn! Can you tell me a little bit about these photographs? I was especially interested in the idea of a late-night local-TV look, where somebody just rents some time and then they sell you their Veg-O-Matic or something or other. 6, Fall 1999, pp. How did this work come about? I moved from San Diego to San Francisco and I heard about the crisis of affordable housing, and I learned about gentrification, and I started reading about it, and investigating it, and then I moved back to New York in 1980, and I thought, “Wow, people actually can’t afford to live in Manhattan anymore.” Like me! “Every single thing I have offered to the public has been offered as a suggestion of work,” says the 75-year-old Brooklyn-born artist. Martha Rosler (American, b.1943) is a photographer and video, installation, and performance artist, as well as a writer and educator. And women loved it. What is your opinion? Martha Rosler is a prolific American artist and writer. But it made sense because we have always assumed, even though it’s pretty much a Victorian idea, that women are responsible for the care and maintenance of the home and family. And I thought that was pretty crazy — and also pretty un-thought-through. We are. How do you see this right now? Semiotics of the Kitchen is a feminist parody single-channel video and performance piece released in 1975 by Martha Rosler.The video, which runs six minutes, is considered a critique of the commodified versions of traditional women's roles in modern society. But people in the mass audience, people of less elite social status, are now, as I suggested earlier, more familiar with art and the art world. By and large they can’t make a living from the writing, and often they don’t plan to. In this interview with Craig Owens the artist discusses her early family influences and her time at the University of California. Do you think there has been a significant change or development in the relationship between the art world and its audience? That’s when I spent a couple of decades using my camera, and of course still do to this day. There is no such thing as citizen journalism for now. Rosler calls Domination and the Everyday, with its fragmented sounds, images, and crawling text, an artist-mother's This Is Your Life.Throughout this work, we hear—but do not see—a mother and small child at dinner and bedtime while a radio airs an interview with a gallerist about Californian art of the 1960s. We had never seen that before in New York. When I was given the opportunity to have a solo show at Dia (Art Foundation) in Manhattan, I said that I would love to do something about homelessness. Martha Rosler has been making art from a feminist perspective since before the Vietnam War, when she xeroxed her photomontages and passed them out at protests as part of the anti-war effort. Turning to the home front, a lot of your work is concerned with investigating our assumptions about home and the house and what’s between those two in terms of expectations. Do you consider Off the Shelf another kind of floating library? Why do you think you originally rejected addressing the issue of shelter? Martha’s influences on the art of filmmaking remain obvious and continue to evolve over time. Irrespective, the artist’s first survey show in 18 years, opens with the towering, floor-to-ceiling photomontage Cargo Cult (1966–72): an image of dock workers unloading stacks of shipping boxes, doctored… READING MARTHA ROSLER READING Essay by Thom Donovan. M.R. - I hardly think social class has diminished in respect to the intellectual ownership of art. It sounds idiotic to say that nowadays, but you have to realize that the 1970s were a different universe. Stephanie Murg: Over the course of your 50-year career you’ve mastered a broad range of media, from collage, to painting, to photography, sculpture, and video. I will not contest the idea that women are responsible for reproduction and also the maintenance of the family and the home, and that we are nurturers. 1943) is a performance artist, video artist, and photographer whose practice has focused upon issues of politics, class, and gender. He recently curated, and the Return of History Painting” (MMKA, The Netherlands, 2011) and, (COBRA Museum, Amsterdam, 2011). So the fact that the U.S. was attacked (in September 2001) made a lot of people feel that we needed to defend ourselves by any means necessary, even when it was actually an offense. M.R. Martha Rosler in her backyard in Brooklyn. Women artists can and have and continue to set up galleries, exhibitions, magazines and websites irrespective of institutional embrace and simultaneously to agitate about the underrepresentation of women in art and in museum hierarchies. The term anorexia nervosa does not feature in the work, since in 1977, the year when the video was made, it was still largely unknown by the public at large. I don’t have any problem with discussing the details. P.B. P.B. People who use them are not trying to communicate with those in power but among themselves. - It’s not really a show but ‘an event,’ a participatory installation and performance. Her works range from photo-text to video, performance and installation. P.B. In your recent interview with Benjamin Buchloh, you claimed that ‘as viewers of Godard, we wanted to parasite all forms, and foreground the apparatus. Like any good detectives, we ascertain motive and opportunity in the commission of what we suspect are international crimes. Postmodernism in art was also a recognition that meaning was slippery and that ’second nature,’ which we may handily think of as the culture that Debord was writing about, was more essential to those relations of production than nature, the natural world. Do you remember a particular moment when you first took notice of the misrepresentation of women in the media? In 2004, she returned to the form to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We exchanged ideas with Rosler about these topics, social media and her upcoming ‘event’ at MoMA. Back then, even though we had our mental boxes for what war looked like, we didn’t ever put them together with our own habitations and territory. My first foray into that was actually as exteriorized as you can get. In the opening pages of the curator James Meyer’s new book, The Art of Return: The Sixties and Contemporary Culture, we find ourselves on Martha… M.R. P.B. “Feminism is a viewpoint that demands a rethinking of questions of power in society and thus has undeniable potency.”. It suggests, if nothing else, a long slog. Courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. For a long time I wasn’t. So gradually I realized I’d rather do those things, although I kept painting for quite a while. Paco Barragán is an independent curator and arts writer based in Madrid. See the actions and the posters put out by the fabulous Guerrilla Girls. Photographs of family life and corporate ads are juxtaposed with a written text that crawls across the screen, comparing life in Chile with life in the United States. So, because we don’t have servants any more in the middle classes, women were supposed to be able to make something very special and also, of course, entertain and sit down and eat it with the guests. She produced it in 1975 by using an alphabet worth of kitchen tools to participate in a feminist critique of the traditional role of gender. Those spaces that define, in some sense, the public, but also transportation, which is essential to communication and to life in general. Rosler relies on the philosophy of semiotics, which implies that words are simply indicators of social interactions that human beings use to describe their world. It was completely acceptable and considered cute. Paco Barragán - Let’s start with your article “Lookers, Buyers, Dealers, and Makers: Thoughts on Audience,” first published in 1979, and of which you wrote a post-scriptum in 1984. So for me, it was an easy slide between the woman’s body and the woman’s home, and I think that actually there is some psychological resonance with that. Domination and the Everyday - Rosler, Martha Ir al contenido principal About MACBA ... On these three visual registers (TV interview, mother/child dialogue and a theoretical text on screen), Rosler superimposes family photographs, trivial adverts from magazines and images of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. I doubt that. I think it’s a mistake to see post-feminism as a useful term that allows for the inclusion of queer and transgender identities; there is certainly a vibrant expanded, gender-related congeries of movements, but feminism persists. And what made you change your mind? - Your work has related to women’s and feminist issues, and even your anti-war oeuvre, which is more known, takes off from this angle. 72-77. Courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. Floating free of cynicism and buoyed by compassion, Rosler’s work can be devastatingly funny or amusingly devastating, and often both. I think this enabled a new way of speaking to art, economic and politic powers. (Laughs.) He is curatorial advisor to the Artist Pension Trust in New York. 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