Rosler comments that film-art experienced its height in the 1960's with the counter culture/hippy culture in which psycholdelic and fluxus movements prevailed durring this utopic moment in history. Then, before or after she gives some sort of a westernized art lecture stemming from Dada to Surrealism to Modernism. All the"art world" talk about how non-art is more art than "art-art" made me wonder first of all (and this hasn't been the first time) what and who makes up this supposed art world and how come everyone talks about it?" In my opinion there is just one world and everyone is an artist of some sort within it but that notion isn't so glamorous as Rosler's notion I guess, or maybe its the same notion since i don't fully understand the term. However, I can presume that "art world" people probably consider themselves more cultured than others.
Rosler talks a bit about redefining media from the inside out using avant-garde film to challenge television. Trying to fight against the mass media turned out a failure since the common American has little to no input and since the people that do have control of the airways make way too much money and have way too much fun with it to ever want things to change.
I did find this reading interesting in a kind of tongue and cheek way because it totally dramatizes history in a way that I can't really relate to being born so recently. Did the people really take these things so seriously in the 50's and the 80's, I know the 60s were intense but times change.
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