Touch Sanitation

Touch Sanitation

Mierle Laderman Ukeles

Sep 5 – Oct 4, 1984

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Mierle Laderman Ukeles

TOUCH SANITATION PERFORMANCE: Fresh Kills Landfill, 1979-80

Description

TOUCH SANITATION SHOW is a two part environmental art exhibition by artist, Mierle Laderman Ukeles. This immense multi-media installation celebrates daily urban survival by revealing New York sanitation as our primary maintenance system. Ukeles focuses on sanitation workers who she feels are stigmatized because we – the public – are generally unwilling to recognize that the individuals who take the garbage don’t make the garbage. Five years in preparation, this exhibition has resulted in a new kind of public art. This is the first time a public service agency has collaborated with such intensity in a serious cultural project. Virtually every unit of the Department of Sanitation has participated with the artist in the creation of these environmental art works.

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Ukeles Touch Sanitation O16 1984

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Touch Sanitation Show, 1984

31 Mercer Street installation view

Ukeles Touch Sanitation 1984 Q7

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Touch Sanitation Show, 1984

31 Mercer Street installation view

reconstruction of two sanitation lunch/locker room facilities th

Ukeles Touch Sanitation Sanmans Place New Facility 1984 05

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Touch Sanitation Show, 1984

31 Mercer Street installation view

reconstruction of two sanitation lunch/locker room facilities th

Ukeles Transfer Sanitation Transformation 1984 110

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Transfer Station Transofrmation

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Transfer Station Transformation

Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. The gallery is located in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City and exhibits performance, photography, new media, film, painting, drawing and sculpture.