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[[Image:Ukeles_Mierle_Laderman_1979_Touch_Sanitation_Performance.jpg|thumb|258px|Ukeles, with two unidentified workers, in ''Touch Sanitation Performance,'' which took eleven months, beginning in July 1979.]]
 
'''Mierle Laderman Ukeles''' (1939, Denver, Colorado) is a New York City-based artist.
 
'''Mierle Laderman Ukeles''' (1939, Denver, Colorado) is a New York City-based artist.
  
 
The work of Ukeles concerns the everyday routines of life. In 1969, following the birth of her first child, Ukeles wrote her "Manifesto for Maintenance Art" as a challenge to the oppositions between art and life, nature and culture, and public and private. Her work looked to highlight otherwise overlooked aspects of social production and questions, still very relevant today, the hierarchies of different forms of work, especially of housework and low-wage labour. Ukeles was interested in how artists could use the concept of transference to empower people to act as agents of change and stimulate positive community involvement toward ecological sustainability. Since 1977, Ukeles has acted as artist in residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation and realised radical public art as public culture in a system which serves and is owned by the entire population. [https://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/mierle-laderman-ukeles-maintenance-art-works-196920131980]
 
The work of Ukeles concerns the everyday routines of life. In 1969, following the birth of her first child, Ukeles wrote her "Manifesto for Maintenance Art" as a challenge to the oppositions between art and life, nature and culture, and public and private. Her work looked to highlight otherwise overlooked aspects of social production and questions, still very relevant today, the hierarchies of different forms of work, especially of housework and low-wage labour. Ukeles was interested in how artists could use the concept of transference to empower people to act as agents of change and stimulate positive community involvement toward ecological sustainability. Since 1977, Ukeles has acted as artist in residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation and realised radical public art as public culture in a system which serves and is owned by the entire population. [https://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/mierle-laderman-ukeles-maintenance-art-works-196920131980]
  
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"I am an artist. I am a woman. I am a wife. I am a mother. (Random order). I do a hell of a lot of washing, cleaning, cooking, renewing, supporting, preserving, etc. Also, (up to now separately) I 'do' Art. Now I will simply do these everyday things, and flush them up to consciousness, exhibit them, as Art."
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<blockquote>"I am an artist. I am a woman. I am a wife. I am a mother. (Random order). I do a hell of a lot of washing, cleaning, cooking, renewing, supporting, preserving, etc. Also, (up to now separately) I 'do' Art. Now I will simply do these everyday things, and flush them up to consciousness, exhibit them, as Art."<br>
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(Ukeles, Manifesto for Maintenance Art, 1969).
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(Ukeles, [[#Manifesto|Manifesto for Maintenance Art]], 1969).</blockquote>
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Ukeles_Mierle_Laderman_1979-80_Touch_Sanitation_Performance_Sweep_7_Staten_Island_6_00_am_Roll_Call.jpg|Ukeles, ''Touch Sanitation Performance: Sweep 7, Staten Island, 6:00 a.m. Roll Call'', 1979-80. Citywide performance with 8,500 New York City sanitation workers.
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Ukeles_Mierle_Laderman_1973-74_Interviewing_Passersby_on_the_Sidewalk_about_Their_Maintenance_Lives.jpg|Ukeles, ''Interviewing Passersby on the Sidewalk about Their Maintenance Lives'', 1973-74. Outside A.I.R. Gallery, New York. Part of the Maintenance Art Performance series.
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Ukeles Mierle Laderman 1973 The Keeping of the Keys Maintenance as Security.jpg|Ukeles, ''The Keeping of the Keys: Maintenance as Security'', 1973. Three-hour performance, c. 7,500, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Ct, July 20, 1973. Part of the Maintenance Art Performance series.
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Ukeles Mierle Laderman 1973 Hartford Wash Washing Tracks Maintenance Inside.jpg|Ukeles, ''Hartford Wash: Washing/Tracks/Maintenance: Inside'', 1973. Performance view, c. 7,500, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Ct, July 22, 1973. Part of the Maintenance Art Performance series.
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; Writings
 
; Writings
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* [https://www.arnolfini.org.uk/blog/manifesto-for-maintenance-art-1969 "Manifesto for Maintenance Art"], 1969.
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* {{a|Manifesto}} [https://www.arnolfini.org.uk/blog/manifesto-for-maintenance-art-1969 "Manifesto for Maintenance Art"], 1969.
  
 
; Recent exhibitions
 
; Recent exhibitions

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Ukeles, with two unidentified workers, in Touch Sanitation Performance, which took eleven months, beginning in July 1979.

Mierle Laderman Ukeles (1939, Denver, Colorado) is a New York City-based artist.

The work of Ukeles concerns the everyday routines of life. In 1969, following the birth of her first child, Ukeles wrote her "Manifesto for Maintenance Art" as a challenge to the oppositions between art and life, nature and culture, and public and private. Her work looked to highlight otherwise overlooked aspects of social production and questions, still very relevant today, the hierarchies of different forms of work, especially of housework and low-wage labour. Ukeles was interested in how artists could use the concept of transference to empower people to act as agents of change and stimulate positive community involvement toward ecological sustainability. Since 1977, Ukeles has acted as artist in residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation and realised radical public art as public culture in a system which serves and is owned by the entire population. [1]

"I am an artist. I am a woman. I am a wife. I am a mother. (Random order). I do a hell of a lot of washing, cleaning, cooking, renewing, supporting, preserving, etc. Also, (up to now separately) I 'do' Art. Now I will simply do these everyday things, and flush them up to consciousness, exhibit them, as Art."
(Ukeles, Manifesto for Maintenance Art, 1969).

  • Ukeles, Touch Sanitation Performance: Sweep 7, Staten Island, 6:00 a.m. Roll Call, 1979-80. Citywide performance with 8,500 New York City sanitation workers.

  • Ukeles, Interviewing Passersby on the Sidewalk about Their Maintenance Lives, 1973-74. Outside A.I.R. Gallery, New York. Part of the Maintenance Art Performance series.

  • Ukeles, The Keeping of the Keys: Maintenance as Security, 1973. Three-hour performance, c. 7,500, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Ct, July 20, 1973. Part of the Maintenance Art Performance series.

  • Ukeles, Hartford Wash: Washing/Tracks/Maintenance: Inside, 1973. Performance view, c. 7,500, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Ct, July 22, 1973. Part of the Maintenance Art Performance series.

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