This post is coming a bit late; but better late than never.
In this week's lecture Mame introduced us to some social artists and their accompanying work. She showed us a picture of a man dressed up in a Superman costume on a cart rolling around a busy metropolis street claiming his actions as art and a woman named Mierle Laderman Ukeles who created "The Social Mirror" which was basically a dump truck encased in mirror sheets and her idea was that when this dump truck passes you by, you would see yourself reflected off the dump truck (interpret this as you see fit, lol...).
The debate for this lecture was what we thought about these artists, if we even thought them to be artists. Personally I'm not sure if I would call the man on the cart an artist but Ukeles is not only an artist in my eyes but a one -n-a-million! What makes her so special? Ukeles makes art that involves the day to day people no one takes a second glance at, for example a waste management worker or a janitor. She make it one of her artworks to go around the city and shake hands with all the waste management staff. She also spent time scrubbing the ground outside an art gallery as another one of her works. Her art is not the physical sort but the emotional kind that stays in one's mind.
I have not heard of an artist like her before. She does not only create art but she makes herself the art piece! That's amazing.
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