A classic video-art/performance-piece, as well as feminist critique on 20th century gender roles, Martha Rosler comments on woman becoming a sign of the food production system, as she replaces the domesticated meaning of tools with a lexicon of rage and frustration. This transforms an understanding of tools of production and gendered performance, to be violent and obsolete, as we watch Rosler "cook". She remarked about her work that, "when the woman speaks, she names her own oppression." Rosler created the video as a parody of cooking shows, herself as the host, using a static camera angle and recognizable set.
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