Analyzing some well-chosen works of art in its diverse presentations, from conceptual to performative art – among others – this episode offers an excellent, eye-opening gender reading and astute feminist interpretations of representative women’s art,  centered on women’s perennial experiences of caregiving, everpresent universal maintenance, housework, motherhood – all within the “ aggressive pressure of incessant capitalist development, extraction, competition, innovation, and expansion…”

The episode is read by the author, Ivana Bago.

References and Discussed Artworks:

Mierle Lederman Ukeles, “Manifesto for Maintenance Art” (Proposal for an Exhibition: “CARE”), 1969 https://pompeiicommitment.org/commitment/mierle-lederman-ukeles-the-maintenance-art-manifesto/#01

Sanja Iveković, Diary, 1976, https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ressources/oeuvre/czA6aj7

Jackson, Shannon. Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics. Routledge, 2011.