Julika Rudelius is a native German artist who predominently works within the subject matter of social classes and interactions. She has produced work in multiple countries, including the U.S. Rudelius stated that her work first stemmed from anger and discomfort that she herself experienced. She has produced controversial work dealing with pornography (in a non-traditional sense) and the objectifying of women in culture. Most of her later work, however, deals more with social class and the wealthy. I found her film on the women of the Hamptons to be very comical and insightful to the life that the wealthy lead. It was interesting to hear their concerns and thoughts on the world. Ofcourse they lived up to the stereotype that society gives them, which is what most of Julika's work seems to do despite her efforts to steer it elsewhere.
I will say, I do wish I did not know that Rudelius' is mostly under her control. I was more fond of it when I thought that these people were saying and doing these things out of their own normal routines. Though, I do understand as an artist why you must manipulate your work to make it do or say what you want it to do/say. I feel Rudelius does a great job of manipulating her subjects to stand where she wants them, talk about what she wants them to, etc. without it being too obvious about what she is doing.
I do think it would have been nice to see more of Julika Rudelius' work, and was bummed about the technical issues that arose.
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