The work of art: art and labor from dematerialization to extreme care
Description
Analyzing some well-chosen works of art in its diverse presentations, from conceptual to performative art - among others - this episode offers an excellent, eye-opening gender reading and astute feminist interpretations of representative women’s art, centered on women’s perennial experiences of caregiving, everpresent universal maintenance, housework, motherhood – all within the “ aggressive pressure of incessant capitalist development, extraction, competition, innovation, and expansion…”
The episode is read by the author, Ivana Bago.
References and Discussed Artworks:
Mierle Lederman Ukeles, “Manifesto for Maintenance Art” (Proposal for an Exhibition: “CARE”), 1969 https://pompeiicommitment.org/commitment/mierle-lederman-ukeles-the-maintenance-art-manifesto/#01
Sanja Iveković, Diary, 1976, https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ressources/oeuvre/czA6aj7
Jackson, Shannon. Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics. Routledge, 2011.
United States
