![]() ![]() Ukeles’s work is the subject of an upcoming film. Represented by the Ronald Feldman Gallery, NYC, she exhibits and lectures internationally. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Whitney, Guggenheim, and Jewish museums in New York the Art Institute of Chicago (promised gift) Migros Museum, Zurich Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Hartford, Connecticut and Smith College Museum, Northampton, Massachusetts. In 2016–17, Ukeles had a museum-wide, career-survey exhibition at the Queens Museum. Key works include Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969!, I Make Maintenance Art One Hour Every Day, Touch Sanitation, The Social Mirror, Ceremonial Arch Honoring Service Workers, Snow Workers’ Ballet, Unburning Freedom Hall, Cleansing the Bad Names, and LANDING at Freshkills Park (in process). Her artwork, crashing boundaries between labor and performance, system and spirit, unveils connections between feminism, workers, the city, and environment. ![]() Following are excerpts from an interview by filmmaker Toby Perl Freilich with artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal Maintenance Art Manifesto 1969! Ukeles is the official unsalaried artist in residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation since 1977. ![]()
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