Backyard Economy II (Diane Germaine mowing)
Martha Rosler
Backyard Economy II (Diane Germaine mowing), ca. 1974
Video, color, silent, transferred from Super-8-film, 6 min 39 sec Camera: Martha Rosler Performer: Diane Germaine
GF0002185.00.0-2000
Artwork text
This film also documents an installation and performance made up of elements from everyday life while the camera executes its delirious 360 degree-pan: a deck-chair standing in a garden, colorful underclothes hanging on the line to dry, a woman mowing the lawn, a dog running across the picture again and again, a close-up of a pullover with a romantic hand-knitted motif, in the end a palm tree... (Sabine Breitwieser)