"Not necessarily in the machinelike way of the Art Pope industrial complex, but at least to all have really strong relationships, and I think that made it possible--when we did find ourselves with this conservative-dominated government--to really come together with a fairly united front."
As White, Sutter and Maher have explained, during this period it was unusual for people to see any ideological conflict embodied within the idea of an organic machinelike nature.
These images, which are bilaterally symmetrical, are at once organic and machinelike. The frontal shapes suggest mirrors and armor, forms that have roots in both the imagery of Surrealism and the Machine Age.
The works I found most impressive were a set of two smaller, subtler, black-and-white 16-mm film projections on a side wall, Autobahn-Kopf, 1988/1989, and Gummibaum, 1993/1994, stop-motion animations in which the artist manipulated still images of cars and crowds, transforming them into hybrids of the machinelike and the organic.
She also finds drone technology to be gendered in feminized terms as compared to advances in robotics that enable male soldiers to become hypermobile machinelike assemblages.
The eroticism of the situation is defused, partly because of man's fear of societal judgment, partly because the artist defiantly renounces soft femininity in favour of a machinelike structure, where a drawer of coins replaces her sex organs.