Martha Rosler, Artist
Global Taste: A Meal in Three Courses
, 1985
Medium
3-channel video installation with wood and paint, color, sound
Dimensions
120 x 80 x 100 in. (304.8 x 203.2 x 254 cm). Video: 30:00 min.
Credit Line
Courtesy of the artist and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York. Installation view at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; photography by Brian Forrest
In this suite of videos, Rosler's take on the "global village" suggests that America's influence on taste—both gastronomic and personal or cultural taste—has an intentionally flattening effect. By exporting American foods and other cultural products to countries all over the globe, the United States exerts its economic and political power and participates in stripping ethnic populations of their cultural identities while assuring growth for American companies and the nation's continued dominance on the world stage.