Manifesto For Maintenance Art 1969! 1969

"Manifesto! 'CARE' @ Maintenance Art 1969!" is a conceptual artwork created in 1969 by Mierle Laderman Ukeles. It is a manifesto outlining Ukeles’s theory of maintenance art, which focuses on the often-unseen labor of maintaining and caring for society. The manifesto, printed in a straightforward, typed style, presents a series of directives for how art can be used to acknowledge and uplift the undervalued work of maintenance. It is a foundational document of feminist art and conceptual art, and an influential work for the field of performance art.