THANK YOU for bringing us Martha Rosler's story about "the making of." I've used Rosler's video for many years in a semiotics course, and this only adds to my respect for this "Strange Woman doing Strange Things!"

I had to watch this for class and I'm so glad I did. If you don't take it that seriously some of this is super funny. The part where she shakes the bottle vigorously or mimics letters of the alphabet out of nowhere, all with a straight face had me dying laughing

Great to get a little more insight into the background and context of the above work. Adam Curtis used excerpts of "semiotics" to describe a type of ironic mocking imposture of detachment from the surrounding culture and political landscape the art world had adopted during the period. Using a montage of archived news broadcasts, interviews and analytical commentary."hypernormalisation" if anyone's interested.

Got to see this video at the Walker Arts Center in 2023, my boyfriend and I thought it was absolutely hilarious. For the rest of the week, we were walking around saying "HAMBURGER press. ICE pick. JUICer." We'd mimic the motions and the odd cast-off shrug Martha does at the end and we were just in stitches the whole time. Brilliantly unexpected comedy, there's something about this piece that seems to foreshadow a lot of Gen Z post-internet comedy in a way that still feels weirdly fresh.

It’s kind of funny how disconnected those objects are from their general function. She brought up ice pick and I thought, “oh, how do you use an ice pick in the kitchen?” And then immediately thought, “ well that taught me nothing. I bet none of the other motions are at all instructive of actual function to anyone not in the know.” It’s very interesting.

Saw this at the moma in nyc

Howdy theere small youTube comment section. Hope everyone is doing well. Social Ecology is cool.

whom the fuck did the audio for this video? how did u fuck up a video artist's audio levels?

Here from the modern museet

Q sent me

😂🤣😂🤣nobody even knows what VBI or a blanking interval means these days…..😎🥂

The best use that has ever been made of this was in Adam Curtis' documentary, _All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace_, in which the video itself stands for (semiotic connection) the vapid, decadent and utterly pointless and narcissistic navel-obsession that engulfed culture in the wake of the then defunct social movements of the 1960s.

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yes, thank goodness for the return to conservative values and the devotion to capitalism, and women's place within it, of the 1980's!!

pretentious and juvenile