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Mierle Laderman Ukeles — maintenance and the exhibition
Read the four-page 1969 manifesto in Queens Museum’s five-page scanned PDF; the fifth page shows the four sheets together. The proposal brings ongoing maintenance into public artistic visibility. Read as a proposal, not evidence that its proposed activities occurred.
- Citation
- Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Manifesto for Maintenance Art, 1969!, proposal for an exhibition CARE. Scan linked by Queens Museum; four text pages plus one view of the sheets. Accessed October 24, 2026, Asia/Taipei.
- Relevance
Challenged my assumption that adding a useful note field makes room for an existing activity. My browser experiment does not reproduce the labor conditions named in the manifesto.