Martha Rosler

Directing·Jul 29, 1943·Brooklyn, New York, USA

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Martha Rosler (born 1943) is an American artist. She is a conceptual artist who works in photography and photo text, video, installation, sculpture, site-specific and performance, as well as writing about art and culture. Rosler's work is centered on everyday life and the public sphere, often with an eye to women's experience. Recurrent concerns are the media and war, as well as architecture and the built environment, from housing and homelessness to places of passage and systems of transport. Since the early 1970s, Martha Rosler has used photography, performance, writing, and video to deconstruct cultural reality. Describing her work, Rosler says, “The subject is the commonplace — I am trying to use video to question the mythical explanations of everyday life. We accept the clash of public and private as natural, yet their separation is historical. The antagonism of the two spheres, which have in fact developed in tandem, is an ideological fiction — a potent one. I want to explore the relationships between individual consciousness, family life, and culture under capitalism.” Avoiding a pedantic stance, Rosler characteristically lays out visual and verbal material in a manner that allows the contradictions to gradually emerge, so that the audience can discern these disjunctions for themselves. By making her ideas accessible, Rosler invites her audience to re-examine the dynamics and demands of ideology, urging critical consciousness of the individual compromises exacted by society, and opening the door to a radical re-thinking of how cultural “reality” is constructed for the economic and political benefit of a select group.

Film	Credit
Museums will eat your lunch2013 · Director	Director
Because This Is Britain2012 · Director	Director
Semiotics of the Kitchen: An Audition2011 · Director	Director
Prototype (God Bless America)2006 · Director	Director
Chile on the Road to NAFTA, Accompanied by the National Police Band1997 · Director	Director
Seattle: Hidden Histories1995 · Director	Director
How Do We Know What Home Looks Like? The Unité d’Habitation of Le Corbusier at Firminy, France1993 · Director	Director
Born to be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby $/M1988 · Actor, Director	Actor, Director
IIf it's too bad to be true, it could be DISINFORMATION1985 · Director	Director
Martha Rosler: An Interview1984 · Self	Self
AA Simple Case for Torture, or How to Sleep at Night1983 · Reader, Director	Reader, Director
Martha Rosler Reads "Vogue"1982 · Actor, Director	Actor, Director
SSecrets From the Street: No Disclosure1980 · Director	Director
DDomination and the Everyday1978 · Director	Director
LLosing: A Conversation with the Parents1977 · Director	Director
The East Is Red, The West Is Bending1977 · Director	Director
Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained1977 · Subject, Director	Subject, Director
Semiotics of the Kitchen1975 · Chef, Director, Writer	Chef, Director, Writer
Backyard Economy 2 (Diane Germain Mowing)1974 · Director	Director
Flower Fields1974 · Director	Director
Backyard Economy 11974 · Director	Director
A Budding Gourmet1974 · Actor, Director	Actor, Director
PPencicle of PraiseDirector	Director