Participate 2001

COMPEL + PROVOKE: PUBLIC ART 2001

Keynote Speaker

Internationally renowned artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles has been active as an artist since the late 1960s. Currently the artist in residence at New York City's Department of Sanitation, she is known worldwide for her unique approach to public art, inspiring collaborations, and activism. Learn about some of her work online:

"Unburning Freedom Hall" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
(http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/visarts
/globe/issue5/zstxt.html)
"Turnaround / Surround" at Mayor Thomas W. Danehy Park commissioned by the Cambridge Arts Council, Massachusetts
(http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/~CAC
/publicart/pubdenehy.html)
"Methanogenesis" at Mountain Lake Workshops of Virginia Tech University
(http://www.art.vt.edu/MtnLake
/metho/metho.html)

Read an interview with Mierle on Maintenance and Sanitation Art in Tom Finkelpearl's book Dialogues in Public Art, MIT Press, 2000.