Martha Rosler
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- July 29, 1943
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
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.
Filmography
1 unreleased or undated title is hidden. Show unreleased
Museums will eat your lunch 2013
Director
Because This Is Britain 2012
Director
Semiotics of the Kitchen: An Audition 2011
Director
Prototype (God Bless America) 2006
Director
Chile on the Road to NAFTA, Accompanied by the National Police Band 1997
Director
Seattle: Hidden Histories 1995
Director
How Do We Know What Home Looks Like? The Unité d’Habitation of Le Corbusier at Firminy, France 1993
Director
Born to be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby $/M 1988
Actor, Director
If it's too bad to be true, it could be DISINFORMATION 1985
Director
A Simple Case for Torture, or How to Sleep at Night 1983
as Reader, Camera Operator, Director
Martha Rosler Reads "Vogue" 1982
Actor, Director
Secrets From the Street: No Disclosure 1980
Director
Domination and the Everyday 1978
Director
Losing: A Conversation with the Parents 1977
Director
The East Is Red, The West Is Bending 1977
Director
Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained 1977
as Subject, Director
Semiotics of the Kitchen 1975
as Chef, Director, Writer
Backyard Economy 1 1974
Director
Flower Fields 1974
Director
Backyard Economy 2 (Diane Germain Mowing) 1974
Director
A Budding Gourmet 1974
Actor, Director
Martha Rosler: An Interview 1984
as Self
Credits from TMDB.