Maintenance Artist

Following our screening of MAINTENANCE ARTIST, there will be a panel discussion featuring the film’s Director Toby Perl Freilich, Princeton University Associate Director of Visual Arts Colleen Asper, and Princeton University Professor of Theater Stacy E. Wolf.

After becoming a mother disrupted her career as an artist, Mierle Laderman Ukeles published a daring manifesto: from now on, all her acts of childcare and household maintenance would be performance art. The Manifesto propelled Ukeles into male dominated avant-garde scene during the 1960s. In 1977, in a move that would radically reframe public art, Ukeles was invited to establish an unprecedented artist-in-residency at the NYC Sanitation Department, where she championed a demeaned but essential class of workers within a vast urban system. Set during the impassioned social and artistic upheavals of the late 20th century and using newly digitized archival footage, MAINTENANCE ARTIST is a documentary of an artist who raised maintenance to an art form and became a force in contemporary art.

Director Toby Perl Freilich

Country USA

Language English

Aspect 1.85

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