Maintenance Artist
Part of Culture Vulture film series
Maintenance Artist
“After the Revolution, who’s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?” challenged Mierle Laderman Ukeles. Crashing the boundary between art and action, in 1977 she became the first artist-in-residence at NYC’s Department of Sanitation, collaborating with municipal workers to inject art directly into the city’s bloodstream.
MAINTENANCE ARTIST is the first feature documentary about this revolutionary public artist. Ukeles, inspired by Marcel Duchamp, pioneered the notion that routine maintenance – from changing diapers to picking up city trash to caring for the earth – could be acts of performance art. With never-before-seen archival footage, MAINTENANCE ARTIST tells a story of essential workers and radical contemporary art set during the social and artistic upheavals of the last half century. Penetrating, provocative, funny, and deeply moving, MAINTENANCE ARTIST fills a glaring cultural gap and heralds Ukeles’ call for a Maintenance Revolution.
MAINTENANCE ARTIST is the first feature documentary about this revolutionary public artist. Ukeles, inspired by Marcel Duchamp, pioneered the notion that routine maintenance – from changing diapers to picking up city trash to caring for the earth – could be acts of performance art. With never-before-seen archival footage, MAINTENANCE ARTIST tells a story of essential workers and radical contemporary art set during the social and artistic upheavals of the last half century. Penetrating, provocative, funny, and deeply moving, MAINTENANCE ARTIST fills a glaring cultural gap and heralds Ukeles’ call for a Maintenance Revolution.
Genre
Documentary,
Social Drama
Web Site
Runtime
95
Language
English
Director
Toby Perl Freilich
Producer
Judith Mizrachy,
Toby Perl Freilich
Writer(s)
Toby Perl Freilich,
Anne Alvergue
Cast
Mierle Ukeles
Opening at
Monica Film Center on May 9th
Town Center 5 on May 9th
Glendale on May 9th
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