Maintenance Artist (2025) | Followed by Panel Discussion led by Director Toby Perl Freilich

Name: Maintenance Artist (2025) | Followed by Panel Discussion led by Director Toby Perl Freilich
Start: 2026-05-07T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Princeton Garden Theatre

Schedule

Thu, 07 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Princeton Garden Theatre | Princeton, NJ

Following our screening of MAINTENANCE ARTIST, there will be a panel discussion featuring the film’s Director Toby Perl Freilich, Princeton University Associate Director of Visual Arts Colleen Asper, and Princeton University Professor of Theater Stacy E. Wolf. 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗧𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 at princetongardentheatre.org/specials
𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗲: After becoming a mother disrupted her career as an artist, Mierle Laderman Ukeles published a daring manifesto: from now on, all her acts of childcare and household maintenance would be performance art. The Manifesto propelled Ukeles into male dominated avant-garde scene during the 1960s. In 1977, in a move that would radically reframe public art, Ukeles was invited to establish an unprecedented artist-in-residency at the NYC Sanitation Department, where she championed a demeaned but essential class of workers within a vast urban system. Set during the impassioned social and artistic upheavals of the late 20th century and using newly digitized archival footage, MAINTENANCE ARTIST is a documentary of an artist who raised maintenance to an art form and became a force in contemporary art.

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