Martha Roslers Semiotics of the Kitchen 1975

From A to Z, Rosler shows and tells the ingredients of the housewife s day, giving us a tour that names and mimics the ordinary with movements more samurai than suburban. Rosler s slashing gesture as she forms the letters of the alphabet in the air with a knife and fork, is a rebel gesture, punching through the system of harnessed subjectivity from the inside out.