Rosler.

Rosler, especially the reading, is a difficult subject to tackle. Yet, before I attempt to analyze 20 pages of verbose, unnecessary ranting against media, I would like to praise her. I really liked the reading regarding landlords. She gave an interesting perspective of a woman who was under the impression that the grass was greener on the other side. She explained the complexity of relations between landlords and tenants and how some can indeed be friends. I also enjoyed the two videos that were shown. Especially the Julia-esque videos involving Rosler stabbing kitchen knives directly into the audience while staring them dead in the eye. I also liked the complete and utter disgust she has for the measurements and social norms that were shown in the video where she was analyzed by the medical team. The parents speaking about their daughter's death due to eating disorders was touching as well.

Now, onto the reading. I did not like it. Dense is an understatement. Her views are quite radical and she seems to contradict herself from what I can grasp from this reading. I think she is anti-gallery and believes that video art should interrupt tv and provide alternatives. She doesn't want video to be the main form of art and thinks the art world is only for elitist but allows the population to critique the mass world. As a classmate stated, it's ironic because she seems like an elitist with this ridiculous writing.

Essentially, Rosler dislikes artist like McLuhan, Nam June Pike, and Pollack for a variety of reasons. Her jab at Pollack is due to his macho attitude, expressive paintings, and his lack of being available to everyone. Her beef with Pike was halfhearted- she liked that he interrupted tv with the magnet but didn't like how he was assimilated into the gallery world.

-Marla