MIERLE LADERMAN UKELES

Mierle Laderman Ukeless Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969! Proposal for an Exhibition CARE (1969) was a major intervention in fe minist performance practices and public art. The proposal argued for an intimate relationship between creative production in the pub lic sphere and domestic labora relationship whose intricacies Ukeles has been unraveling ever since. In 1977, she became the unsala ried Artist-in-Residence for the New York City Department of Sanitation, a position that enables her to introduce radical public art into an urb...[Read more]