Friday, May 9, 2008

Social Sculpture and Maintenance

"Are we to assume," Mierle Laderman Ukeles has stated, " that those who dispose of trash - being all of us- are the 'garbage people'?"

Her handshakes became a social or human support structure... the people who keep the city alive as personal and anonymous. Also, how the stereotypes emerge that stigmatise certain types of work/activity.


Joseph Beuys human support via:

"...Social Sculpture--how we mold and shape the world in which we live:
SCULPTURE AS AN EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS...
All around us the fundamentals of life are crying out to be shaped, or created."

Always a little further....

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