Fashioning the Body: Versions of the Citizen, the Self, and the Subject

just before screening the film we watched with all the loud banging noises where we saw each frame scroll through instead of one image afteranother, the hosts of the program said that it was significant that it had been produced on video, and the artist had used the fact that it would be shown on a monitor as a tool.  So, it is interesting that we actually watched it on film and not on video.  on a screen and not on a monitor.

I really enjoyed the film that was made in the woman’s kichen, where she was reading the wok directions.  At one point near the end, she said something along the lines of -and now you know everything you need to be a real asian- clearly this is a commentary on cultural approriation and she was making a joke about people who think that having “asian” things in your home makes you asian.  after the film was shown, the hosts said that that particular film maker would often just set up a camera in her own kitchen and record herself interacting with her own posesions.  So if we can assume that she really did have the electric wok and the japanese cook book in her home who was she commenting on? was  she just making a joke about her own cultural appropriation, or didI misinterprete it entirely?