Upcoming Events by Mierle Laderman Ukeles

Open Engagement Conference at the Queens museum Rotterdam Ballet, 1985 Futurist ballet for ten garbage vehicles Performed in Rotterdam, Holland Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NY May 16-19, 2014 at Various Locations. Keynote Speakers J. Morgan Puett and Mierle Laderman Ukeles The 2014 Open Engagement conference is co-presented by the Queens Museum and A Blade of Grass, and takes place at the Queens Museum, New York Hall of Science, the Queens Theater, Immigrant Movement International, and various locations around New York. Registration is closed; if you did not get a ticket and would like to attend, they can put your name on a waiting list. Email openengagement@gmail.com with “Wait List” as the subject. Creative Time:  Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Seven Work Ballets Discussion and Screening Friday, May 16, 2014 from 2:30-4:00pm 59 East 4th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10003 Since 1974, New York City-based organization Creative Time has collaborated with artists and others to present ambitious art projects in public spaces. This event celebrates the upcoming publication, Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Seven Work Ballets, Ukeles’ first monograph to date. The event will feature an informal discussion between Ukeles and Kari Conte, and a screening of Snow Workers Ballet from 2012. The publication focuses on the artist’s ballet works, and their proposals and realizations in the artist’s words. These large-scale collaborative performances involved workers, trucks and barges and took place between 1983 and 2012 in Givors, Echigo-Tsumari, New York, Pittsburgh, and Rotterdam. This richly illustrated publication includes an interview with Shannon Jackson and Tom Finkelpearl, is edited and contains an essay by Kari Conte and is co-published by Sternberg Press, Kunstverein Amsterdam, Grazer Kunstverein and Krist Gruijthuijsen, in collaboration with Arnolfini and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. Pre-registration is required. Registration is now closed. Closing Keynote Presentation: Mierle Laderman Ukeles Queens Museum Atrium Sunday, May 18, 2014 from 7:30pm-9:00pm  From the program: "Mierle Laderman Ukeles is a defining artist in the history of performance, feminist, and socially engaged art and  has been the official artist in residence with New York City's Department of Sanitation for over three decades.  Her work models possibilities of how an artist can create long-term, sustainable alternative contexts within which to situate and create their work." Master Class led by Mierle Laderman Ukeles and Tom Finkelpearl, Commissioner NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Queens Museum in the Queens Museum Theater Monday, May 19, 2014 from 10:00am-2:00pm artnet Artist Breakfasts: Mierle Laderman Ukeles Wednesday, May 21, 2014 from 8:30am - 10:30am The Woolworth, 233 Broadway, 26th floor, New York, NY 10279 FEE | Guests $25 Join ArtTable for artnet Artist Breakfasts, a series of conversations with artists hosted in partnership with artnet. This month's Artist Breakfast features artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles in conversation with curator Kari Conte on the artists' forthcoming monograph Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Seven Work Ballets. The publication focuses on the artist’s ballet works, and their proposals and realizations in the artist’s words. These large-scale collaborative performances involved workers, trucks and barges and took place between 1983 and 2012 in Givors, Echigo-Tsumari, New York, Pittsburgh, and Rotterdam. This richly illustrated publication includes an interview with Shannon Jackson and Tom Finkelpearl, is edited and contains an essay by Kari Conte and is co-published by Sternberg Press, Kunstverein Amsterdam, Grazer Kunstverein and Krist Gruijthuijsen, in collaboration with Arnolfini and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. More information