''Mary's Cherries'' (2004), which shows a woman's red fingernails being grown, clipped, and transformed into
maraschino cherries, was influenced by a story about a woman with a rare blood type who quit her job to sell her blood. The women featured in ''Mary's Cherries'' are all wrestlers for hire. In
Tropical Breeze (2004), champion bodybuilder
Heather Foster drives a converted truck that functions as a shop, packaging her sweat. In the back of the truck, dancer Felicia Ballos pedals a makeshift device, picking up tissues and using gum to stick them to a clothesline, transferring them to Heather, who uses them to collect her sweat for packaging and later for sale.
Dough (2005-2006) watches Raqui, a size-acceptance activist and frequent collaborator of Rottenberg's as she cries tears that evaporate into steam, causing dough to rise. Rottenberg's work was showcased at the
Whitney Biennial 2008.
Squeeze (2010) is a video shot on location at a lettuce farm in Arizona and a rubber plant farm in Kirala, India. Actors engage in a variety of gestures including thrusting a tongue through a stucco wall, a line of women massaging hands that protrude through a wall, and Bunny Glamazon being smashed between two mattresses. In 2011, Rottenberg collaborated with artist
Jon Kessler on
SEVEN, a performance and installation created for Performa 11 in New York City, performed at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery. According to the Performa website,
SEVEN "collapse[d] film time and real time to create an intricate laboratory that channels body fluids and colors into a spectacle on the African savannah. In New York, a "Chakra Juicer" will capture sweat from seven performers engaging in ritualistic athletic activity." In
Ponytails (2014), a pair of kinetic sculptures, one blonde and one dark-haired, extend and flip frantically through two glory-hole-like openings in separate gallery walls. In 2015, her work
NoNoseKnows was featured in the Venice Biennale as part of an exhibition curated by
Okwui Enwezor: "All the World's Futures."
Ceiling Fan #4 (2016) is viewed through narrow, horizontal openings in a gallery wall. Inside, ceiling fans turn, illuminated by pastel light.
Cosmic Generator (2017), is a video installation shot partly in
Mexicali, along the U.S.
Mexico border. It follows workers in cramped spaces performing absurd tasks such as crushing lightbulbs, accompanied by a soundtrack of electronic buzzes and blips. The viewer is shown a series of tunnels, ostensibly linking a variety of workshops and restaurants shown later in the twenty-six-minute piece. The video consists of female throat singers from Tuva,
Tyva Kyzy,
ASMR-esque videos of colors and sizzling goo, a potato-farm, and interior shots of a Genevan Hall. Rottenberg places these scenes in "a kind of superfluous factory of her devising, whose primary product seems to be imagery that's simultaneously pleasurable and queasily troubling." ==Infinite Earth Foundation==