Rottenberg

If you live in a town called Rattenberg (pronounced "Rottenberg") that has no sunlight because the sun is blocked out by Rat Mountain, and someone comes up with a scheme involving giant mirrors -- it's time to move.

A Great Place for a Supervillian Lair Richard Nokes 2005

If you live in a town called Rattenberg (pronounced "Rottenberg") that has no sunlight because the sun is blocked out by Rat Mountain, and someone comes up with a scheme involving giant mirrors -- it's time to move.

Archive 2005-12-01 Richard Nokes 2005

Ben Stiller taps into his inner slacker in 'Greenberg' trailer by Josh Rottenberg

Ben Stiller taps into his inner slacker in 'Greenberg' trailer | EW.com 2009

Cokie Roberts gets medieval on Roman Polanski: 'Take him out back and shoot him'? by Josh Rottenberg

Cokie Roberts gets medieval on Roman Polanski: 'Take him out back and shoot him'? | EW.com 2009

Silke Rottenberg, who was passed over in favor of Nadine Angerer at last year's World Cup in China, played in goal for Germany.

United States handles China 4-0 in Algarve Cup opener 2008

But though Rottenberg can be clearly seen as critiquing the conditions of Latin American, Indian, and Chinese women workers, her indictment of Western managerial exploitation leaves much to be desired when considering the current evolution of global economics and the working conditions of manual laborers.

G. Roger Denson: Mika Rottenberg's "Squeeze" Becomes What It Critiques G. Roger Denson 2010

(A photograph of the famous art dealer, Mary Boone, presenting this compressed cube of what Rottenberg calls "globally sourced rubber, lettuce make up" will be available for sale in the gallery show).

Dorothy Spears: Mika Rottenberg's Squeeze at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2010

The difference is that Rottenberg and Mary Boone stand to make considerably more profit off the actors per DV sale and residual consumer objects/art than the lettuce, rubber and makeup companies being referenced will make off the women laborers represented.

G. Roger Denson: Mika Rottenberg's "Squeeze" Becomes What It Critiques G. Roger Denson 2010

Rottenberg was born in Argentina, grew up in Tel Aviv, and now lives in Harlem, where she's become known for video installations such as Tropical Breeze (2004), presenting visceral depictions of the uses and abuses of women's bodies in the labor market.

Dorothy Spears: Mika Rottenberg's Squeeze at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2010

As in Dough (2006), which contrasts the squeezing of dough with body fat, Rottenberg spices her surrealist visual brew with ample doses of visual chicanery.

Dorothy Spears: Mika Rottenberg's Squeeze at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2010