Mika Rottenberg is a sculptor and video arts who builds large, complex sets inhabited by women performing illogical, assembly line tasks. In "Dough", for example, a woman in a tiny room smells flowers to induce hay fever. Her tears run down her legs and through a tiny hole in the floor, where other w
What is it about the creative spirit that often makes it so self-deprecating and sometimes so self-damaging? Did we all suffer the same childhood torments? What happens to the same spirit that drives people to points of world-changing genius? And what flips the switch and makes us believe that som