La Dominación y lo Cotidiano. Ensayos y Guiones (Spanish edition, 2019)
Translated by Gemma Deza Guil & Eduardo García Agustín
Bilbao: Consonni
ISBN: 978-84-16205-43-1
224 pages
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“Accurate, committed and brilliant in her analyses, Martha Rosler unravels in the articles and scripts translated here the almost always overshadowed relationships between the media, the State and the family as different and complementary reverberations of power, evidencing different forms of subjections and limits ( so many times) not visible, and directing their attention especially to the consequences that these structures and stereotypes have on women, racialized or non-heteronormative people.” (Maria Noise)

This book presents a new compilation of essays and scripts for performances and videos by the artist Martha Rosler, with special emphasis on the construction of the public sphere and the myth of everyday life. It explores topics ranging from everyday life and the media to national security and armed conflict, especially as it affects women. We start from her work Domination and the Everyday that gives the book its title to show the long career of an artist well known for her videos, performances and photographs and other works, as well as for being one of the most influential cultural and theoretical critics of these last forty years. This book shows Rosler's ability to make an artistic work and build a discourse to contextualize it. Texts that go from the year 1975 to 2016, reflect on feminist art, the idea of ​​the artist-mother, gentrification in relation to culture and much more.