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“Touch Sanitation Performance,” 1979-80. Courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. Photo Marcia Bricker.
Sweep maps from “Touch Sanitation Performance,” 1979–80. Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts.
View of the exhibition “Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art,” 2016–17, showing Ceremonial Arch Honoring Service Workers IV, 2016, dirty gloves, steel, and mixed mediums, and (on wall) One Year’s Worktime II, 2016, silkscreen. Courtesy Queens Museum, New York. Photo Hai Zhang.
Re-Spect for Givors, performance in and on the quay of the Rhône river in Givors, France, on Oct. 28, 1993, commissioned by the Institute for Art & the City. Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts.
The Social Mirror, 1983, mirrored sanitation truck. Courtesy Queens Museum. Photo Hai Zhang.