--- title: "096 - Touch Sanitation, Ukeles 9/9-10/5 1984" date: 2017-08-11T15:53:00-04:00 author: Graham Murray canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/096-touch-sanitation-ukeles-9-9-10-5-1984" section: Exhibition --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) Touch Sanitation [Mierle Laderman Ukeles](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) Sep 5 – Oct 4, 1984 ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation 1978 80 4](/assets/hero_images/_1600x800_crop_top-center_75_none/6418/Ukeles-Touch-Sanitation-1978-80_4.jpg) 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. [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View Press Release ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/Ukeles/1984-Touch-Sanitation/1984_touch_sanitation_press.pdf) [ ![](/src/images/redirect.svg) View Artist ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation Performance 1978 80](/assets/exhibition_images/Ukeles/1984-Touch-Sanitaiton/Ukeles-Touch-Sanitation-Performance-1978-80.JPG) Mierle Laderman Ukeles Touch Sanitation Performance, 1979-80 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation Performance 1978 80]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Mierle Laderman Ukeles Touch Sanitation Performance, 1979-80 ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation P20 1984]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Mierle Laderman Ukeles ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation P 88]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Mierle Laderman Ukeles Touch Sanitation Performance, 1984 ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation 1979 80 P29]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Mierle Laderman Ukeles Touch Sanitation Performance, 1979-80 ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation Performance 1977 80]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Mierle Laderman Ukeles Touch Sanitation Performance, 1979-80 ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation Sitting At Table Talking To Sanitation Workers]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Mierle Laderman Ukeles Touch Sanitation Performance, 1979-80 ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation 1979 80 P55]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Mierle Laderman Ukeles Touch Sanitation Performance, 1979-80 ![Ukeles Wiping Out The Bad Names 1984 O27 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Mierle Laderman Ukeles Wiping of the Bad Names Performance, 1984 ![Ukeles Wiping Out The Bad Namesperformance 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Mierle Laderman Ukeles Wiping of the Bad Names Performance, 1984 ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation O1 1984](/assets/exhibition_images/Ukeles/1984-Touch-Sanitaiton/Ukeles-Touch-Sanitation-O1-1984.JPG) Touch Sanitation Show, 1984 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation O1 1984]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Touch Sanitation Show, 1984 31 Mercer Street installation view ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation O5 1984]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Touch Sanitation Show, 1984 31 Mercer Street installation view ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation O7 1984 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Touch Sanitation Show, 1984 31 Mercer Street installation view ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation O14 1984]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Touch Sanitation Show, 1984 31 Mercer Street installation view ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation O16 1984]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Touch Sanitation Show, 1984 31 Mercer Street installation view ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation 1984 Q7]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 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]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Touch Sanitation Show, 1984 31 Mercer Street installation view reconstruction of two sanitation lunch/locker room facilities th ![Ukeles Transfer Sanitation Transformation 1984 110]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Touch Sanitation Show, 1984 Transfer Station Transofrmation ![Ukeles Transfer Sanitation Transformation 1984 09]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Touch Sanitation Show, 1984 Transfer Station Transformation ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation O1 1984](/assets/exhibition_images/Ukeles/1984-Touch-Sanitaiton/Ukeles-Touch-Sanitation-O1-1984.JPG) ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation O5 1984](/assets/exhibition_images/Ukeles/1984-Touch-Sanitaiton/Ukeles-Touch-Sanitation-O5-1984.JPG) ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation O7 1984 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Ukeles/1984-Touch-Sanitaiton/Ukeles-Touch-Sanitation-O7-1984_1.JPG) ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation O14 1984](/assets/exhibition_images/Ukeles/1984-Touch-Sanitaiton/Ukeles-Touch-Sanitation-O14-1984.JPG) ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation O16 1984](/assets/exhibition_images/Ukeles/1984-Touch-Sanitaiton/Ukeles-Touch-Sanitation-O16-1984.JPG) ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation 1984 Q7](/assets/exhibition_images/Ukeles/1984-Touch-Sanitaiton/Ukeles-Touch-Sanitation-1984-Q7.JPG) ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation Sanmans Place New Facility 1984 05](/assets/exhibition_images/Ukeles/1984-Touch-Sanitaiton/Ukeles-Touch-Sanitation-Sanmans-Place-New-Facility-1984_05.JPG) ![Ukeles Transfer Sanitation Transformation 1984 110](/assets/exhibition_images/Ukeles/1984-Touch-Sanitaiton/Ukeles-Transfer_Sanitation_Transformation_1984_110.JPG) ![Ukeles Transfer Sanitation Transformation 1984 09](/assets/exhibition_images/Ukeles/1984-Touch-Sanitaiton/Ukeles-Transfer_Sanitation_Transformation_1984_09.JPG) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation O1 1984]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Touch Sanitation Show, 1984 31 Mercer Street installation view ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation O5 1984]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Touch Sanitation Show, 1984 31 Mercer Street installation view ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation O7 1984 1]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Touch Sanitation Show, 1984 31 Mercer Street installation view ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation O14 1984]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Touch Sanitation Show, 1984 31 Mercer Street installation view ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation O16 1984]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Touch Sanitation Show, 1984 31 Mercer Street installation view ![Ukeles Touch Sanitation 1984 Q7]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 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]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Touch Sanitation Show, 1984 31 Mercer Street installation view reconstruction of two sanitation lunch/locker room facilities th ![Ukeles Transfer Sanitation Transformation 1984 110]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Touch Sanitation Show, 1984 Transfer Station Transofrmation ![Ukeles Transfer Sanitation Transformation 1984 09]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Touch Sanitation Show, 1984 Transfer Station Transformation Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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