5 years before I was born an artist- a woman, had become a new mother. Mierle Laderman Ukeles had grown frustrated that she could not be both and was tired of trying to be two people. In a single sitting she wrote the Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969!, in it she exclaimed “My Working will be the Art”. She went on to have a prolific career based on that idea, addressing different types of labour it’s value, inequality not only in gender, but race as well.
The original questionnaire was for the Accompanying Proposal for an Exhibition “Care”1969 to the Manifesto but became a part of an traveling exhibition that opened in 1973 at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, 1 year before I was born.
I retyped the questionnaire as it was written and tried to stay true to the form.
