Agoraphobia
Prologue exhibition of the 13th Istanbul Biennial, TANAS, Berlin, 25 May - 27 July 2013. Curators: Fulya Erdemci and Bige Örer. Co-curator: Kevser Güler
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Left:
Washing. 1974
In front of the A.I.R. Gallery on Wooster Street in Soho, New York
17 black and white photographs, text page
Right:
I Make Maintenance Art One Hour Every Day, Sept. 16 - Oct. 20, 1976
Whitney Museum Downtown Branch at 55 Water Street, NYC throughout the 3.5 million square foot building
19 color photographs, drawing with collage, 4 text pages, notebook, announcement, set labels, button
After child-birth in 1968, artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles became a mother/maintenance worker and fell out of the picture of the avant-garde. In a rage, she wrote the Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969!, applied equally to the home, all kinds of service work, the urban environment, and the sustainability of the earth itself. She viewed the Manifesto as "a world vision and a call for revolution for the workers of survival who could, if organized, reshape the world."
Inspired, also, by New York City’s 1969- "Comprehensive Plan" that split its mission into two systems – development and maintenance – she has created works that collide the boundaries of these two systems together, understanding them as the embodiment of opposing human drives of freedom and necessity.
(From the handout of Agoraphobia)
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
Prologue exhibition of the 13th Istanbul Biennial, TANAS, Berlin, 25 May - 27 July 2013. Curators: Fulya Erdemci and Bige Örer. Co-curator: Kevser Güler