The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 24, 2024

Semiotics of the Kitchen

Semiotics of the Kitchen

1975
Location: not on view

Description

Martha Rosler’s Semiotics of the Kitchen takes the form of a parodic cooking demonstration a la Julia Child. In this video, Rosler picks up and names utensils, demonstrating their use with gestures that do not match their normal uses. Her performance for the camera thus transgresses the familiar system of everyday kitchen meanings and gendered domestic labor.
  • 2020
    (Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    2020-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Pioneers, Part Two. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 2, 2019-March 13, 2020).
  • {{cite web|title=Semiotics of the Kitchen|url=false|author=Martha Rosler|year=1975|access-date=24 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.270