--- title: 2020_Ukeles_Cultural Politics date: 2020-05-26T15:35:00-04:00 author: Cat Zhou canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2020-ukeles-cultural-politics" section: News --- [![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/) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/fredric-riskin-1) [ Richard Ross ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/richard-ross) S [ Diemut Strebe ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/diemut-strebe) [ Edwin Schlossberg ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/edwin-schlossberg) [ Federico Solmi ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/federico-solmi-) [ Jason Salavon ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/jason-salavon) [ Todd Siler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/todd-siler) U [ Mierle Laderman Ukeles ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) V [ Sam Van Aken ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) W [ Allan Wexler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [ Andy Warhol ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/andy-warhol) [ Clemens Weiss ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/clemens-weiss) [ Hannah Wilke ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) Y [ Gil Yefman ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) [Mierle Laderman Ukeles ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) Blazing Epiphany: Maintenance Art Manifesto 1969! Cultural Politics May 26, 2020 Following are excerpts from an interview by filmmaker Toby Perl Freilich with artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal *Maintenance Art Manifesto 1969!* Ukeles is the official unsalaried artist in residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation since 1977. Her artwork, crashing boundaries between labor and performance, system and spirit, unveils connections between feminism, works, the city, and the environment. Key works include *Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969!*, *I Make Maintenance Art One Hour Every Day, Touch Sanitation...* [**Read more here.**](https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:bb5c267a-3ab5-4836-98a5-1d5593e7d5bb) Related News & Press May 12, 2020 [ ![Httpscdnimg rg ruimgcontent1881702rian 6202279 hr ru d 850 jpg 696x464](/assets/exhibition_images/httpscdnimg.rg_.ruimgcontent1881702rian_6202279.hr_.ru_d_850.jpg-696x464.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2020-k-m-kxan36) May 12, 2020 [Komar & Melamid](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/komar-melamid) [Tretyakov began selling tickets to the exhibition “Nevsegda. 1968-1985”](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2020-k-m-kxan36) May 12, 2020 [ ![EAN192 Eleanor Antin War Games 1976 Tinted gelatin silver print 8 5 x 6 5 inches ED AP Courtesy Diane Rosenstein Gallery](/assets/exhibition_images/EAN192_Eleanor-Antin_War-Games_1976_Tinted-gelatin-silver-print_8.5-x-6.5-inches_ED-AP_Courtesy-Diane-Rosenstein-Gallery.webp) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2020-antin-apollo) May 12, 2020 Apollo Magazine [Eleanor Antin](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/eleanor-antin) [Acquisitions of the Month: April 2020](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2020-antin-apollo) May 06, 2020 [ Self-portraiture has become a life skill ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2020-wilke-interview-2020) May 06, 2020 Interview [Hannah Wilke](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) [This Virtual Exhibit Redefines What It Means To Photograph Yourself](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2020-wilke-interview-2020) May 08, 2020 [ ![Ukeles 5 Touch Sanitation 1979 80 10](/assets/exhibition_images/Ukeles_5-Touch-Sanitation-1979-80_10_200511_153130.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2020-ukeles-vox) May 08, 2020 Vox [Mierle Laderman Ukeles](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) [Jenny Odell on nature, art, and burnout in quarantine](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2020-ukeles-vox) [See All Press ](https://feldmangallery.com/news_overview) Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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