Titles by Martha Rosler
- A budding gourmet
- A Simple Case For Torture, or How To Sleep at Night
- Born to be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby $/M
- Chile on the Road to NAFTA
- Domination and the Everyday
- Fascination with the [Game of the] Exploding [Historical] Hollow Leg
- From the PTA, the High School and the City of Del Mar
- How Do We Know What Home Looks Like?
- If it's too bad to be true, it could be DISINFORMATION
- In the Place of the Public: Airport Series
- Losing: A Conversation With The Parents
- Martha Rosler Reads "Vogue"
- Pencicle of Praise
- Prototype (God Bless America)
- Seattle: Hidden Histories
- Secrets From the Street: No Disclosure
- Semiotics of the Kitchen
- Semiotics of the Kitchen: An Audition
- Super-8 Shorts
- The East Is Red, The West Is Bending
- The Garden Spot of the World: Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in Traffic, Transit and Flow
- Travelling Garage Sale
- Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained
- Watchwords of the Eighties
The East Is Red, The West Is Bending
Martha Rosler introduces The East Is Red, The West Is Bending at EAI on Wednesday, January 19, 2011.
In an astute deconstruction of the political ideology that pervades the everyday, The East is Red, The West is Bending is a tongue-in-cheek presentation of a booklet that accompanies a newly marketed consumer appliance, a West Bend electric wok. In this performance-based work, Rosler reads the booklet in a manner that recalls an amateurish local television cooking demonstration. Demonstrating the wok at home, this "failed Mrs. Pat Boone" delivers an absurd corporate text. A few incongruous inserts into the booklet's language of corporate gentility suggest the imperialist attitudes that underlie attempts to convince us to transform ourselves into connoisseurs of exotic foreign cuisines.
