Tag Archives: feminism

Martha Rosler

Saddam’s Palace (Febreze)
2004
Image copied from gregcookland.com
From Rosler’s website:
“Martha Rosler is an artist who works primarily with images and texts. Most of her work concerns social issues, which are manifested at sites as various as the kitchen, the television set, the streets and the transport systems. Rosler’s career retrospective, ‘Positions in the Life World,’ was exhibited [...]

Joan Jonas

The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things
2004 video
Image copied from www.3quarksdaily.com
Using source material ranging from Noh theater to Homer to the Brothers Grimm, Jonas explores female archetypes, investigating questions of gender and identity.  Jonas’ projects and experiments in video performance have profoundly influenced many contemporary artists.
Links:
http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?JONASJ
http://www.mediatecaonline.net/mediatecaonline/SConsultaAutor?ID_IDIOMA=en&ope=2&criteri=Jonas%2C+Joan
http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/videos/89/videos-all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODGaBJ1r36Y