I Say I Am: Program 1

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Collection: Curated Compilations

Desire and the Home: Program 1

Challenging the dominant ways of making and critiquing art, feminist art practice in the 1970s stressed personal connections to materials and immediacy of context over formal abstraction.

For many women, the home was a natural subject of artistic production as a highly charged site of rampantly contradictory meanings. As Lucy Lippard noted, "[women artists] work from such [household] imagery because it’s there, because it’s what they know best, because they can’t escape it." In Desire and the Home: Program 1, the artists explore domestic issues such as motherhood, sexuality, death, familial relationships, control of physical space and the preparation and consumption of food.

Please note that on this compilation "Chicken on Foot" is a 1:00 excerpt.

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Suzanne Lacy

Learn Where the Meat Comes From

1976 | 00:14:20

A classic feminist video, Learn Where the Meat Comes From depicts how “gourmet carnivore tastes take on a cannibalistic edge. This parody of a Julia Child cooking lesson collapses the roles of…

Collections: Early Video Art, Single Titles
Tags: Feminism, Performance, Video History

Nina Sobell

Hey, Chicky!!!

1978 | 00:09:55

In this cooking demonstration/performance, Sobell wears a chicken carcass over her face while dressing (literally, in baby clothes) a chicken to be cooked for dinner. Cooing and breast feeding the…

Collections: Early Video Art, Single Titles
Tags: Body, Feminism, Gender, Performance, Video History

Nina Sobell

Chicken on Foot

1974 | 00:08:20

In Chicken on Foot, Sobell bounces a chicken carcass as one would a child, periodically crushing eggs (fetal chickens) on her knee. A statement of the displacement of sexual desire on food and women’…

Collections: Early Video Art, Single Titles
Tags: Body, Feminism, Performance, Video History

Martha Rosler

Semiotics of the Kitchen

1975 | 00:06:09

From A to Z in this mock cooking-show demonstration Rosler 'shows and tells' the ingredients of the housewife's day. She offers an inventory of tools that names and mimics the ordinary with movements…

Collections: Early Video Art, Single Titles
Tags: Feminism, Gender, Language, Performance, Video History

Barbara Aronofsky Latham

Feathers: An Introduction

1978 | 00:25:00

Feathers: An Introduction is a self-portrait centered on the story of Latham's grandmother’s comforter which, old and worn, scatters feathers everywhere. Displaying an arresting stage presence,…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Autobiography, Family, Feminism, Image Processing, Performance, Video History

Janice Tanaka

Beaver Valley

1980 | 00:06:50

In this angry answer to the expectations advertising culture places on women and their bodies, Tanaka deftly edits commercial images and sound-bite slogans to underscore the message such images carry…

Collections: Early Video Art, Single Titles
Tags: Feminism, Gender, Video History, Television

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