I wrote about Miele Laderman Ukeles for Intertextuality and also Inside the White Cube last semester and i think that her work also relates to this module. She basically declared her chores and mudane experiences to be her art...

'In the 1960s as an educated young woman early in her art career Mierle Laderman Ukeles learned an important lesson in cultural detachment. Once she became pregnant and then a mother she found herself ignored in the art world and treated with less respect in the larger community. In response to this, she capitalised on her mundane experiences to reinvent her cultural role; ever since, she has created meaningful events and relationships in places where art and culture had been loathed to step. She declared that her chores as housewife and mother were her art.'




Ukeles washed the floor of the Hartford Art Museum during regular public visiting hours, surrounded by sculptures and paintings.