This five-channel video and sound installation explores the subjugation of women in popular imagery through the appropriation of broadcast television clips showing women work, consume, and entertain. By recontextualizing and combining these fragments in a sculpture of processed images and sound, Birnbaum comments on television’s role in reinforcing gender stereotypes and provokes an awareness of the seductive powers of technological media.
five-channel video installation, color, with sound, and photographic panel
Dimensions
72 × 96 in. (182.9 × 243.8 cm)
Date acquired
1991
Credit
Collection SFMOMA Purchase through a gift of Rena Bransten and the Accessions Committee Fund: gift of Collectors' Forum, Doris and Donald Fisher, Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr., Byron R. Meyer, and Norah and Norman Stone
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