Mika Rottenberg: New Work September 21, 2010

Mika Rottenberg's immersive video installations address issues of gender and labor through outrageous narratives centered around real women (not actors or models) and their bodies. With her New Work project entitled 'Squeeze,' Rottenberg collapses the humorous and the unsettling to examine global production. Splicing together documentary footage from a rubber plant in India and a lettuce farm in Arizona with her own narrative of women in an absurdist makeup factory, Rottenberg's surreal video homes in on the social realities of women's labor.