Touch Sanitation
Mierle Laderman Ukeles. Touch Sanitation, 1977–1980.
Description:
“I’m not here to watch you, to study you, to analyze you, to judge you. I’m here to be with you: all the shifts, all the seasons, to walk out the whole City with you.”
I face each worker, shake hands, and say: “Thank you for keeping NYC alive.” / Performance Duration: 11 months, at least 1 to 2 8-hour/per day work shifts. With 8,500 sanitation workers. / Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
Medium:
Performance
Tags:
hands, sanitation, performance, public, institutional critique
Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum
