Semiotics of the Kitchen: An Audition
2011

Video, 9:44 minutes

In 2003, for A Short History of Performance, Part II at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, Rosler announced an open call for a live re-staging of her seminal 1975 video piece Semiotics of the Kitchen. Twenty-six women participated in a rotating performance of Rosler's script at the Whitechapel. On a set stocked with culinary utensils, the participants were taped and "broadcast" on television monitors throughout the gallery via live feed. Semiotics of the Kitchen: An Audition documents the preliminary rehearsals with Rosler and the public event, the "audition."