Abstract
I. CareProposal for the exhibition “Care,” 1969, by M. L. Ukeles, excerpt from manifesto, part C, “Earth Maintenance”: “Every day, containers of the following kinds of refuse will be delivered to the museum: (1) the contents of one sanitation truck; (2) a container of polluted air; (3) a container of polluted Hudson River; (4) a container of ravaged land. Once at the exhibition, each container will be serviced: purified, depolluted, rehabilitated, recycled, and conserved by various technical, and/or pseudo-technical, procedures either by myself or by scientists.
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Mierle Laderman Ukeles
MIERLE LADERMAN UKELES has public-art projects in progress in Pittsburgh, New York, Cambridge, Mass., Holland, and Germany. She is represented by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
Jimmie Durham
JIMMIE DURHAM is a Cherokee artist and writer who lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Rackstraw Downes
RACKSTRAW DOWNES paints on site in New York, Maine, and Texas. He will show at Hirschl & Adkr Modern gallery in October 1992.
Peter Fend
PETER FEND develops an architecture derived from Conceptual art. The globe is organized into ocean basins as prospective clients: megastructures, rapid-sequence video monitoring, and materials-cycling technologies ensue.
Patricia Johanson
PATRICIA JOHANSON is currently working on a Public Art Master Plan for Rockland County, New York, and is participating in the 1992 Sundance Institute “Survival and the Arts” conference.
Agnes Denes
AGNES DENES has had aver 250 solo and group exhibitions on four continents. She has published four books, including Book of Dust: The Beginning and the End of Time and Thereafter.
Billy Curmano
BILLY CURMANO, artist/adventurer, has exhibited extensively, notably in the “III Graphikbiennak,” Vienna, Austria; at Franklin Furnace, New York; and at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Regina Vater
REGINA VATER is a Brazilian transmedia artist who has lived in the United States for more than ten years. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1980.