Mierle Ukeles

Series: World of Art: Works in Progress Series

Duration: 30

Year Published: 1996

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Mierle Ukeles, artist-in-residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation since 1979, is shown organizing a massive, collaborative work to turn the world's largest municipal landfill, on Staten Island, into a "social sculpture," in which what had been unwanted refuse is "healed" and returned to the community to be used in a new way. Includes clips of several of her earlier performance art pieces as she discusses her understanding of the relationship between "work" and "art."

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