kiji Martha Rosler’s “Decoys and Disruptions”: Images and Discourse as Social Intervention
Martha Rosler's Decoys and Disruptions is a workshop for social intervention. This analysis breaks down its 4 cores: 1) Critiquing liberal documentary, arguing for "alliance with others"; 2) Using feminism to deconstruct domesticity, the body, and media (e.g., "Semiotics of the Kitchen"); 3) Reframing the exhibition as a public forum for policy ("If You Lived Here..."); 4) The "politics of editing" (captions, layout). A key text in institutional critique alongside Sekula and Tagg.