Secrets From the Street No Disclosure (1980)

Secrets From the Street examines the intersection of cultures and classes as exemplified by the street life of San Franciscos Mission District This videotape produced for an exhibition held jointly at San Franciscos City Hall and its Museum of Modern Art argues against the shows theme and title Public Disclosure Secrets from the Street that accounts of cultural life that omit the question of social power are mythical The real secret is the obscured relation of economic and political domination exercised by ones own culture over the observed subculture Or as Rosler states in the tapes voiceover The secret is that to know the meaning of a culture you must know the limits of meaning of your own