Please note that there are additional showtimes of MAINTENANCE ARTIST that screen with open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). For those showtimes,click here.
Q&As with director Toby Perl Freilich after the screenings Wednesday, April 22 at 7:00; Thursday, April 23 at 7:00; Sunday, April 26 at 3:15 (screening co-presented by Lilith Magazine)
“After the Revolution, who’s going to pick up the garbage?”
In 1969, artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles published a revolutionary manifesto declaring all her acts of household maintenance, including childcare, to be performance art. As she blasted her way into the era’s largely male avant-garde, Ukeles began to scale up her “maintenance revolution,” collaborating with the invisible workers who keep the city going and radically reframing public art by becoming the first artist-in-residence at NYC’s Sanitation Department. Her genius and her visionary work finally get their due in this thoughtful, eye-opening portrait.