Art at Work: A Sanitation and Social Practice Group Show

Art at Work is a group exhibition of works by artists-in-residence at municipal sanitation departments in four different US cities, including New York. In these remarkable programs, cities invite artists to hang out at the dump and make work about and alongside the waste stream and its workers. Drawing on the histories and discourses of discard studies, the environmental humanities, and social practice art, Art at Work and its supplemental materials seeks to confront questions about the civic responsibilities of artists and of art itself, and reflect an evolving aesthetics of environmentalism. Featuring Lily Cox-Richard, Brian Hutsebout, Kimberly Lakin, sTo Len, Cathy Lu, Hilary Pfeifer, Francesca Pfister, Slinko, Mike Suri and Mierle Laderman Ukeles.