Mierle Laderman Ukeles
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Mierle Laderman Ukeles
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First Name
Mierle Laderman
Surname or Business Name
Ukeles
Years Affiliated
2019-2020
Birth Date
1939
Birthplace
United States
Occupation
Artist
Biographical Text
Mierle Laderman Ukeles is an influential pioneer of maintenance art. Her work also revolves around feminist art. She is best known for her Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969! Proposal for an Exhibition “CARE” (1969), a proposal for an exhibition to display maintenance work as contemporary art. Since 1977, she has been an unsalaried artist-in-residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation where she creates art that deals with urban waste flows, recycling, ecology, urban sustainability, and our power to transform degraded land and water into healthy inhabitable public places.
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Citation
“Mierle Laderman Ukeles,” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed April 23, 2024, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/733.
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| This Item | Is Part Of | Item: Film Programme: The Posthuman City |