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artnet news spotlights Container Artist Residency 01
“You’re a worker among people who are performing a different kind of labor”–Brian Boucher in artnet news
“You’re a worker among people who are performing a different kind of labor”–Brian Boucher in artnet news
Mierle Laderman Ukeles has been the artist-in-residence for the NYC Department of Sanitation for the past 30+ years. During this time she has orchestrated a series of seven grand-scale collaborative performances that took place between 1983 and 2012 in New York, Pittsburgh, Givors, Rotterdam, and Tokamachi.
Ninety Percent of Everything (2013), a book about the shipping industry and Rose George’s experience of traveling on a container ship
Verso (2016) reveals not the fronts of world famous paintings, but their backs.